Mind Control & Neuroprosthetics with Cindy Chestek and Parag Patil
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Are You Having Tiny Needles in Your Brain?
This is actually a perog question of why you have tiny needles in your brain safely. These electrodes really rest on the surface of the brain, but they go in just enough to be able to record the activity of the cells. And so there's a very flexible wire that comes up to the surface where we can then attach it to something that can take it to the computer. This is to a hole in your skull that you have drilled with like a drill bit. Yep. Get out our blackened decker drill and go in.
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