Nanthia Suthana is working to become fluent in the “language of the brain.” She does not study linguistics but rather that electrical patterns that the brain uses to communicate. She and her team at UCLA seek to alter these patterns by externally stimulating brain cells with electricity – testing its effects on cognition and memory […]
Invading the Brain to Understand and Repair Cognition
CNS 2016 Blog (Press Release) April 5, 2016, New York – People are using brain-machine interfaces to restore motor function in ways never before possible – through limb prosthetics and exoskletons. But technologies to repair and improve cognition have been more elusive. That is rapidly changing with new tools – from fully implantable brain devices […]
