Biological chips help to re-communicate contact lines in the brain

Researchers at the University of Washington have successfully built a biological chip that can help establish new neurological connections in the part of the brain that controls human movement.

They demonstrated that this biochip, when inserted into the monkey's brain, can stimulate nerve cells to change. They believe that restoring brain contacts with this mechanism will provide hope for treatment for people with brain damage, stroke or paralysis.

The team, including Andrew Jackson, Jaideep Mavoori and Eberhard Fetz, said the biochip has the ability to record cortical activities. It can convert these activities into a signal that can be transmitted to the brain, spinal cord or muscle. Therefore, it can create an artificial and normal operation as before. Thanks to this artificial communication, the brain can ' learn ' how to use it to replace the weakened communication.

This study was published in the November 2 issue of Nature.