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Brain Gate Technology

The document discusses BrainGate, a brain implant system currently in clinical trials. BrainGate is designed to help paralyzed patients control external devices through thought alone. It works by implanting a small chip on the brain's surface that monitors neural activity and converts intentions into computer commands. This allows paralyzed patients to perform tasks like turning lights on/off or controlling a robotic arm just by thinking. While improving lives, BrainGate also faces challenges like frequent adjustment needs and limited information transfer rates that researchers continue working to overcome.

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Brain Gate Technology

The document discusses BrainGate, a brain implant system currently in clinical trials. BrainGate is designed to help paralyzed patients control external devices through thought alone. It works by implanting a small chip on the brain's surface that monitors neural activity and converts intentions into computer commands. This allows paralyzed patients to perform tasks like turning lights on/off or controlling a robotic arm just by thinking. While improving lives, BrainGate also faces challenges like frequent adjustment needs and limited information transfer rates that researchers continue working to overcome.

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PRESENTED BY S.SHARMILA III B.

SC COMPUTER SCIENCE

INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION HISTORY TYPES

OF BRAIN GATE APPLICATION WORKING PRINCIPLE ADVANTAGE DISADVANTAGE FUTURE ENHANCMENT CONCLUSION

Since coming of new technologies, computers are becoming more intelligent than they were in the past. Man and machineinterface has be en one of the growing fields o f research and develo pment in the recent years. Most of the effort has been dedicated to the design of user friendly or ergonomic systems

Brain Gate is a brain implant system, currently under development and in clinical trials, designed to help those who have lost control of their limbs, or other bodily functions, such as patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS) or spinal cord injury. The sensor, which is implanted into the brain, monitors brain activity in the patient and converts the intention of the user into computer commands

1. Research on BCIs has been going on for more than 30 years, but from the mid-1990sthere has been a dramatic increase in working experimental implants. 2 .Brain gate was developed by the bio-tech company Cyber kinetics in 2003 in conjunction with the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University.

ONE WAY BRAIN GATE: Computers either accept commands from the brain or send signals to it. TWO WAY BRAIN GATE: Allow brains and external devices to exchange information in both directions.

In classification of EEG signal. o In multimedia communication. o In evaluation of spike detection algorithms. o Actuated control of mobile robot by human EEG. o As a brain controlled switch for asynchronous control. o In evaluating the machine learning algorithms. o Difficulty in adaptation and learning. Emphasis should be on improving the information transform rate.
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A small chip, the 2mm x 2mm Brain Gate, is surgically implanted on to the surface of the brain. Extending down into the cortex are hundred thin platinum tipped electrodes each a mille meter long and only 90 microns at the base. After implantation, the computer system needs to learn what the brain-generated electrical impulses mean. The predetermined movements in the mind: move arm left, lift hand, rotate wrist, generated a unique signal that could be recorded. After that, patient is hooked to a joystick via a computer. The computer registers his now remembered thought patterns and moved the joystick accordingly without any physical intervention whatsoever

Turn on or off the lights on your room Check and read E-mails Play games in computer Use your PC Watch and control your Television Control a robotic arm

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switches must be frequently adjust ed which is a time consuming process. As the device is perfected this will not be an issue. The Brain Gate System has not been approved by the FDA, but has been approved for IDE status (approved for pre-market clinical trials). Difficulty in adaptation and learning. Limitation in information transform rate. The latest technology is 20 bits/min.

Future BrainGate system products may control devices that allow breathing, bladder and bowel movements. Development of second generation patient interface software that will enable users to performwide varietyof daily activities without th e assistance of the technician. Development of a BrainGate system which has wireless interface between the implanted server and the computer

Humans and machines are a part of intelligence. We could say that the BrainGate cant work without a human brain and the human brain (for someone who is paralysed) cant function without the BrainGate system. BrainGate system is a system where a person ca n work with a computer just by thoughts. BrainGate has proved to be a boon for paralyzed people.

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