BrainGate Hardware

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BrainGateHardware

• Summer Bird
• Kacie Johnson
• Gitau Muchane
• Jonathan Wright
• Washington Farver

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Definition

• BrainGate Neural Interface Device- a
  brain-computer interface that uses internal
  neural signal sensor and external processors to
  convert neural signals into an output signal
  under the users own control.

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What It Is

• The sensor consists of a tiny chip (smaller than
  a baby aspirin) with one hundred electrode
  sensors each thinner than a hair that detect
  brain cell electrical activity.

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Basic Process

• The electrode translates brain activity and sends
  the information to the computer in a format it
  can understand.

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How it Works

• BrainGate uses a sensor that is implanted onto
  the motor cortex of the brain. The device
  analyzes brain signals then interprets and
  translated them into cursor movements.

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Current Applications

• Navigate Internet
• Play Computer Games
• Turn Lights On and Off
• Control Television

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Future Applications

• Regulating Breathing
• Controlling Body Functions

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Benefits

• can provide paralyzed
• or motor-impaired
• patients a mode of
• communication through
• the translation of thought
• into direct computer control.

Nagle, a 25-year-old quadriplegic, is the first
human fitted with the BrainGate Neural Interface.
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• Here we have a research participant who is
  capable of controlling his environment by thought
  alone something we have only found in science
  fiction so far.
• Surgeon Gerhard Friehs of Brown Medical School

From Forbidden Planet 1956
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