{"id":24283,"date":"2016-04-05T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/invading-the-brain-to-understand-and-repair-cognition"},"modified":"2016-04-05T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:17:15","slug":"invading-the-brain-to-understand-and-repair-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/invading-the-brain-to-understand-and-repair-cognition","title":{"rendered":"Invading the brain to understand and repair cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 2016, New York \u2014 People are using brain-machine interfaces to restore motor function in ways never before possible \u2014 through limb prosthetics and exoskletons. But technologies to repair and improve cognition have been more elusive. That is rapidly changing with new tools \u2014 from fully implantable brain devices to neuron-eavesdropping grids atop the brain \u2014 to directly probe the mind.<\/p>\n<p>These new technologies, being presented today at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual conference in New York City, are mapping new understandings of cognition and advancing efforts to improve memory and learning in patients with cognitive deficits.<\/p>\n<p><b>Eavesdropping on neurons<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new era\u201d of electrophysiology is now upon us, says Josef Parvizi of Stanford University who is chairing the CNS symposium on the topic. \u201cWe have gotten a much sharper view of the brain\u2019s electrophysiological activity\u201d using techniques once relegated to science fiction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencecodex.com\/invading_the_brain_to_understand_and_repair_cognition-179468\">http:\/\/www.sciencecodex.com\/invading_the_brain_to_understand...ion-179468<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 2016, New York \u2014 People are using brain-machine interfaces to restore motor function in ways never before possible \u2014 through limb prosthetics and exoskletons. But technologies to repair and improve cognition have been more elusive. That is rapidly changing with new tools \u2014 from fully implantable brain devices to neuron-eavesdropping grids atop the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}