The process of reading ideas in the human brain has always been a dream. Scientists have worked in many research and studies to turn it into a tangible reality.
An international research team led by scientists from the Georgia Technology Institute (Georgia Tech) in the United States managed to create a brain and machine interface that a person can wear, and you can read what he imagines and convert it into orders for a wheelchair or robotic hand.
According to the study published by this team, which was issued in the "Advanced Science" and announced by the institute in an official statement on July 21, this new innovation can help people with many types of motor functional imbalances or paralysis, or those who sufferLocked-in Syndrome syndrome.
And imprisonment syndrome is a condition in which the person is in a state of awakening and consciousness, but he is unable to communicate orally with others because of his entry into a state of complete paralysis for all his voluntary muscles except for the eyes of the eyes..
A mediator between the brain and the world!
Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIS is a way to communicate directly between the human brain and the computer without the need to use other physical organs such as limbs, the facade allows a person to issue orders for an electronic device using electrical brain activity only.
This interface monitors this electrical activity, measures and analyzes it, and the famous EGP (EEG) devices is similar to this, then the nerve orders sent from this activity are extracted when the patient focuses on an idea and imagines its occurrence, and thus the patient's intentions turn into actions.
This is not the first time that a system has been created on this basis. Rather, research has started in this range several decades ago, but the new innovation - according to the study - has several basic advantages compared to the currently available, which is that it is soft on the brain and is comfortable to wear, and does not containAny wires.
Additional benefits
This type of devices generally depends on gelatinous materials and pastes that help maintain the contact of the device for the skin, and require long preparation times, and they are generally uncomfortable for use, as they receive strokes with difficulty due to additional noise that may result from something like dental jungle.
At that point, the advantages of the new system that avoids these problems appear, as the new system for planning an electrical brain can obtain improved signals, because the team - according to the study - merged an algorithm for automatic learning into this system, also supported by a software of virtual reality, helps in linking betweenWhat the patient imagines, and the possibility of occurring on the ground.
Until now this new tool is still under development, and has been experimentally used with only 4 people and they were not sick, but according to the study, the results were completely positive..The research team hopes that its results will help achieve a fundamental addition to this range, helping many patients in the future.