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Putting Electronics in the Brain Is moving things with your mind science fiction or science..?. Rikky Muller Berkeley Wireless Research Center BEARS Conference 2012. Science Fiction. Who C ould U se a Neural I nterface?. US STATISTICS Spinal Cord Injury: 250k; 11k/ yr
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Putting Electronics in the Brain Is moving things with your mind science fiction or science..? Rikky Muller Berkeley Wireless Research Center BEARS Conference 2012
Who Could Use a Neural Interface? US STATISTICS • Spinal Cord Injury: 250k; 11k/yr • 56% between 16 and 47, 30% quadriplegic • Traumatic Brain Injury: 5.3M • Amputees: 400k • Stroke: 6.5M • ALS/Locked-in Syndrome: 30k • Epilepsy: 3M • Parkinson’s: 1M • Clinical Depression: 1M • OCD: 28 k Goal: To restore mobility, communication to > 17M people/year
Brain-Machine Interface [Nicolelis, Nature ‘01]
Brain-Machine Interface [Velliste et al, Nature 2008] What are they not showing us?
Past and Future Interfaces [Hochberg, Nature 2006] [Doerner, 2010] TheVision Tomorrow’s Devices Today’s Devices 2mm
Berkeley Wireless Research Center 250 SUTARDJA-DAI HALL Collaborators:WIFO – Wireless Foundations Center BSAC – Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center CITRIS – Environmental Engineering CNEP – Center for Neural Engineering & Prostheses