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PROSTHETICS. “A common purpose of modern brain implants and the focus of much current research is establishing a biomedical prosthesis circumventing areas in the brain that have become dysfunctional after a stroke or other head injuries. This includes sensory substitution, e.g., in vision. Other brain implants are used in animal experiments simply to record brain activity for scientific reasons. Some brain implants involve creating interfaces between neural systems and computer chips.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_implant View in LinkedIn

COMMON PRACTICE. “Neuroprosthetics aren't new. They have been around commercially for three decades, in the form of the cochlear implants used in the ears (the outer reaches of the nervous system) of more than 300,000 hearing-impaired people around the world. Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first retinal implant, made by the company Second Sight.” http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579435592981780528 View in LinkedIn

“NEURAL IMPLANTS such as deep brain stimulation and Vagus nerve stimulation are increasingly becoming routine for patients with Parkinson's disease and clinical depression respectively, proving themselves a boon for people with diseases which were previously regarded as incurable.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_implant View in LinkedIn

REAL-TIME. “Our results support the feasibility of neural prostheses that may have the potential to provide near-conversational synthetic speech output for individuals with severely impaired speech motor control.” http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0008218 View in LinkedIn