TY - JOUR
T1 - Neuroprosthetics
T2 - Past, present and future
AU - Thakor, Nitish V.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment. My research over the past decade has been funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and presently the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology and the National Research Foundation of Singapore.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - There has been a remarkable convergence in recent years between the biomedical fields of neuroscience and rehabilitation and engineering fields of robotics and prosthetics. This “union” of complementary disciplines has resulted in rapid advances in the robotics and rehabilitation technologies on one hand, and utilization of brain interfaces and brain signals for targeting suitable clinical applications on the other hand. This review will address the slow progress in past, explosive recent developments, and the pending major future challenges to take the science and technology to the patient. I \ review the broad field for neuroprosthesis, from sensory (e.g. tactile) to motor (upper and lower limb) as well as rehabilitation technologies in these fields. I conclude with recent remarkable developments in the field of brain machine interface, how these are impacting the development of neutrally controlled prosthesis and also discuss the challenges of taking the technology to the market and eventually to the patient.
AB - There has been a remarkable convergence in recent years between the biomedical fields of neuroscience and rehabilitation and engineering fields of robotics and prosthetics. This “union” of complementary disciplines has resulted in rapid advances in the robotics and rehabilitation technologies on one hand, and utilization of brain interfaces and brain signals for targeting suitable clinical applications on the other hand. This review will address the slow progress in past, explosive recent developments, and the pending major future challenges to take the science and technology to the patient. I \ review the broad field for neuroprosthesis, from sensory (e.g. tactile) to motor (upper and lower limb) as well as rehabilitation technologies in these fields. I conclude with recent remarkable developments in the field of brain machine interface, how these are impacting the development of neutrally controlled prosthesis and also discuss the challenges of taking the technology to the market and eventually to the patient.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-08072-7_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-08072-7_4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85012272526
SN - 2195-3562
VL - 7
SP - 15
EP - 21
JO - Biosystems and Biorobotics
JF - Biosystems and Biorobotics
ER -