Motor Control 3

Question 1

What are some of the clinical relevance of understanding brain control of movement?

Answer 1

Brain-machine interfaces and brain-brain interfaces are being developed

Sensory properties are being built into prosthetic limbs so patients can get sensory feedback when their prosthetic limb contacts objects or people

Question 2

What are brain-machine interfaces used to allow?

Answer 2

Patients to voluntarily control prosthetic limbs and to walk again following spinal cord injuries

Question 3

What are brain-brain interfaces?

Answer 3

Interfaces that use brain signals from one animal to teach another animal a task it has never seen