(12) Jan 26, 2014, Motor Neuroprosthetics (hs)

Topics addressed in the lecture:

• Interdisciplinary nature of brain-machine interfaces (BMI)
• Invasive and non-invasive BMI
• Sensory BMI
• Motor BMI
• Ethical considerations related to neural enhancement
• Future perspectives of neural prosthetics

Examples for question you should be able to answer:

• How do sensory and motor prosthesis function differently? What communication methods do they use for transmitting information?
• What are the main advantages and disadvantages of invasive and non-invasive BMI?
• What are currently the main obstacles/reasons that prevent BMI technology to be widely used in paralyzed patients?

Important concepts:

• Decoding of neural signals for BMI
• Advantages and disadvantages of invasive BMI
• BMI miniaturization needed for clinical applications
• Neural prosthetics vs. neural enhancement

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