Unique Program Gives Amputees New Hope for Better Prosthesis By Scott Maier Having lost most of his right leg due to a rare nerve tumor, George Kocelj tried several external…
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In their paper in Nature, Frederic Theunissen, Jack Gallant and co-authors describe a data-driven approach to map language representation across the human cortex. Using fMRI to monitor brain activity during language…
To control a computer cursor or robotic arm with our thoughts, our intended movements must be interpreted by a decoder. A decoder is a computational algorithm that transforms brain activity…
Michael Lustig and collaborators created lightweight, flexible receive coils for MRI that improve diagnostic image quality. >>Read the article in Nature Communications.
Loren Frank and co-authors identified a network of neurons that become active during moments of immobility. This network, located in the CA2 region of the hippocampus, may generate a representation…
Michel Maharbiz, Philip Sabes, and co-authors developed an interface that optically stimulates neurons and records the consequent activity over a large region of the primary somatosensory and motor cortex of nonhuman primates…
CNEP co-director and UCSF neurosurgeon Edward Chang routinely implants electrodes onto the surface of people’s brains out of medical necessity. For people suffering from uncontrolled epilepsy, electrodes can be used to…
As brain decoding technology advances, could it be used to reveal whether someone is guilty of a crime? Jack Gallant (Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley) joined Rana Foroohar (Time Magazine),…
Greenhouse I, Sias A, Labruna L, Ivry RB (2015) Nonspecific Inhibition of the Motor System during Response Preparation. J Neuro 35(30):10675–10684. Motor system excitability is transiently inhibited during the preparation…
Ramanathan DS, Gulati T, Ganguly K (2015) Sleep-Dependent Reactivation of Ensembles in Motor Cortex Promotes Skill Consolidation. PLoS Biol 13(9): e1002263. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002263. Despite many prior studies demonstrating offline behavioral…
