{"id":30855,"date":"2016-10-07T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T22:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/synapse-like-memristor-based-electronic-device-detects-brain-spikes-in-real-time"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:10:46","slug":"synapse-like-memristor-based-electronic-device-detects-brain-spikes-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/synapse-like-memristor-based-electronic-device-detects-brain-spikes-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Synapse-like memristor-based electronic device detects brain spikes in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synapse-like-memristor-based-electronic-device-detects-brain-spikes-in-real-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neural Nanonics here we come: \u201cCould lead to future autonomous, fully implantable neuroprosthetic devices\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"Memristor chip\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synapse-like-memristor-based-electronic-device-detects-brain-spikes-in-real-time2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"249\"><\/p>\n<p><b><center>Memristor chip (credit: University of Southampton)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A bio-inspired electronic device called a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memristor\">memristor<\/a> could allow for real-time processing of neuronal signals (spiking events), new research led by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Southampton<\/a> has demonstrated.<\/p>\n<p>The research could lead to using multi-electrode array implants for detecting spikes in the brain\u2019s electrical signals from more than 1,000 recording channels to help treat neurological conditions, without requiring expensive, high-bandwidth, bulky systems for processing data. The research could lead to future autonomous, fully implantable neuroprosthetic devices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"memristor schematic and array\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synapse-like-memristor-based-electronic-device-detects-brain-spikes-in-real-time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"386\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>Schematic illustration of a solid-state titanium-oxide memristive device and atomic force microscopic (AFM) image a portion of a 32 \u00d7 32 crossbar array of memristors (credit: Isha Gupta\/Nature Communications)<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/synapse-like-memristor-based-electronic-device-detects-brain-spikes-in-real-time\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neural Nanonics here we come: \u201cCould lead to future autonomous, fully implantable neuroprosthetic devices\u201d Memristor chip (credit: University of Southampton) A bio-inspired electronic device called a memristor could allow for real-time processing of neuronal signals (spiking events), new research led by the University of Southampton has demonstrated. The research could lead to using multi-electrode array [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30855","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66056,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30855\/revisions\/66056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}