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Mind Control & Neuroprosthetics with Cindy Chestek and Parag Patil
StarTalk Radio
How Do Assistive Exoskeletons Recapture the Use in an Amputated Hand?
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The brain in some sense, motor is distributed. So we have different parts of the brain that contribute to the motor plan. And then signals converge on something called the motor cortex and those signals go directly down your spinal cord to your muscles. Dr. Chestek uses assistive exoskeletons to help recapture the use in a person's hand who might have damaged might be an amputee.
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