Tag: neuroprosthetics
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Mind the Gap! The Future of Spinal Repair
Aidan McConnell-Trevillion discusses the promising results of a 25-year study exploring spinal cord implants and their use in restoring movement after paralysis. Although he highlights the challenges that still remain, he hopes that advances in technology may improve outcomes, bringing us closer to making spinal cord injury a more treatable condition.
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Time for an upgrade? Exploring human neural enhancement
When considering neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces, cyborgs and sentient robots may come to mind – part of a not too distant dystopian future, perhaps. Popular culture leans very heavily upon speculation and the boundless imagination of readers and writers alike, often arousing apprehension and calls to forego innovation for fear of what we may unwittingly…