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The University of Florida develops a computer microchip which is able to help patients with such illnesses as a paralysis and epilepsy. For this purpose it should be implanted into a brain.
Principle of operation of this technology is the following: the chip “connected” to certain neurons of the brain, at the mental command transfers the necessary signals to organs and limbs of the person. It can force neurons to work correctly - for example, in a case of epileptic seizure. It can allow also a paralyzed person to manipulate with a mechanical limb.
Nowadays this technology is tested on rats. It is planned, that the “human” variant of this microchip will appear in four years. For this purpose it is required to decipher precisely signals which are transferred by a brain, so that the chip could decipher precisely the commands transferred by the force of a thought.