China Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Rat cyborg gets digital cerebellum AN ARTIFICIAL cerebellum has restored lost brain function in rats, bringing the prospect of cyborg-style brain implants a step closer to reality. Such implants could eventually be used to replace areas of brain tissue damaged by stroke and other conditions, or even to enhance healthy brain function and restore learning processes that decline with age. Cochlear implants and prosthetic limbs have already proved that it is possible to wire electrical devices into the brain and make sense of them, but such devices involve only one-way communication, either from the device to the brain or vice versa. Now Matti Mintz of Tel Aviv University in Israel and his colleagues have created a synthetic cerebellum which can receive sensory inputs from the brainstem - a region that acts as a conduit for neuronal information from the rest of the body. Their device can interpret these inputs, and send a signal to a different region of the brainstem that prompts motor neurons to execute the appropriate movement. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goingforburgundy Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 How long until we are like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmySmith Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I, for one, welcome our new rat overlords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Corcaigh Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I was born a human. But I will die a cyborg. I was kind of hoping that it would have been a human cyborg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 I was born a human.But I will die a cyborg. I was kind of hoping that it would have been a human cyborg. One step at a time. There's time yet for you to get your wish Dr. Graves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I, for one, welcome our new rat overlords. once we have freed ouselves from those scum... your kind will be hunted down next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HailGreen28 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Once again, scientists. Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Rat cyborgs, eh? Sounds pants ****tingly terrifying, no matter the reason for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexey Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Rat cyborgs, eh?Sounds pants ****tingly terrifying, no matter the reason for it. It says that "One of the functions of the cerebellum is to help coordinate and time movements." Thoughts and stuff come from different areas of the brain. So it's not like this cyborg will get ideas. It will just help implement rat's ideas. Nothing scary about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 It says that "One of the functions of the cerebellum is to help coordinate and time movements."Thoughts and stuff come from different areas of the brain. So it's not like this cyborg will get ideas. It will just help implement rat's ideas. Nothing scary about that Hmm...so what you're saying is that I shouldn't have let them install that digital prefrontal lobe in my brain last week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 It says that "One of the functions of the cerebellum is to help coordinate and time movements."Thoughts and stuff come from different areas of the brain. So it's not like this cyborg will get ideas. It will just help implement rat's ideas. Nothing scary about that cybonic implants don't kill people BRAINS kill people.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sizzla3000 Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 This is how the Borg collective was formed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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