EUGENE, Ore. — March 5, 2025 — Picking up a cup of coffee, flipping a light switch or grabbing a door handle don’t require much apparent thought. But behind the curtain, the brain performs feats to ...

An unknown startup company has gone public with a fairly aspiring mission: to create a ready-for-clinic brain prosthetic that will help those afflicted with memory problems. Should the technology ...

Researchers at the University of California Berkeley have created a tiny sensor, the size of a grain of sand, that can sit on a nerve, muscle, or organ and monitor the electrical signals passing ...

Your palm and fingertips send signals to your brain that the cup is slipping," Thakor said. "Our system is neurally inspired—it models the hand's touch receptors to produce nervelike messages so the ...

A neurological-based rehabilitation system to address phantom limb syndrome has been registered by the FDA as a Class II Software as a Medical Device, the manufacturer said in a press release.The ...

The use of brain computer interface has the potential to improve the daily lives of people with prosthetic limbs, according to research presented this week at the Association of Academic Physiatrists ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Last year a group of researchers at Brown and ...

Those folks showed similar brain maps of the hand and lips, suggesting that these maps remain stable long after amputation. Phantom limb pain occurs because the remaining nerves no longer connect a ...