{"id":91278,"date":"2019-05-24T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T22:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/neuroprosthetics-and-deep-brain-stimulation-two-big-neuroscience-breakthroughs"},"modified":"2019-05-24T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T22:42:37","slug":"neuroprosthetics-and-deep-brain-stimulation-two-big-neuroscience-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/neuroprosthetics-and-deep-brain-stimulation-two-big-neuroscience-breakthroughs","title":{"rendered":"Neuroprosthetics and deep brain stimulation: Two big neuroscience breakthroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/1060369710840965?fields=format\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-autoplay=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p>Researchers have developed a brain-computer interface the size of a baby aspirin that can restore mobility to people with paralysis or amputated limbs.<\/p>\n<p>How does it work? It rewires neural messages from the brain\u2019s motor cortex to a robotic arm, or reroutes it to the person\u2019s own muscles. In this video, Big Think contributor Susan Hockfield, president emerita of MIT, explains further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BigThinkdotcom\/videos\/1060369710840965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a brain-computer interface the size of a baby aspirin that can restore mobility to people with paralysis or amputated limbs. How does it work? It rewires neural messages from the brain\u2019s motor cortex to a robotic arm, or reroutes it to the person\u2019s own muscles. In this video, Big Think contributor Susan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91278","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}