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Considering using an intercranial device (<\/span>Wand) <\/em>, wireless, capable of recording, stimulating and modifying a monkey’s movements in real time, which once implanted in a <\/span>human brain<\/strong> could help treat diseases such as epilepsy and <\/span>Parkinson’s disease<\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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The idea ties in with the largest investment of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative<\/em>, a project created and supported by the Facebook<\/strong> founder and his wife Priscilla Chan<\/strong>, with the important goal of “curing all existing diseases.”<\/p>\n

The project<\/h4>\n

The capital earmarked for the project amounts to the considerable sum of $5 billion<\/strong>, cash flow from a sale of as many as 29 million<\/strong> Facebook shares<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The small Wand<\/em> device , among the first co-funded projects ,whose tests have already been carried out on monkeys, was the subject of a scientific study later published in the scientific Journal Nature Biomedical Engineering<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The device<\/h4>\n

UC Berkeley in conjunction with startup Cortera has created Wand<\/em>, which consists of a small brain pacemaker <\/strong>that can transmit signal from 128 different points in the brain<\/strong> with the help of electrodes and deliver electrical discharges that can influence behavior.<\/p>\n

The test conducted on monkeys saw the animals intent on moving a cursor on a screen using a joystick, an action they could perform because of previous training.<\/p>\n

Wand<\/em> modified the animals’ movement by sending an electrical signal<\/strong> into the brain,<\/p>\n

The ‘possible use<\/h4>\n

It is hoped that Wand<\/em> may be a valuable contribution to treating a range of movement disorders<\/strong>, such as spinal cord injury and epilepsy, due specifically to the ability to anticipate motor action, with the ability to stop it.<\/p>\n

Similar projects, such as Elon Musk<\/strong>‘s Neurali<\/em>, had been started before such as the famous Building 8<\/em>, also by Facebook<\/strong>, but today this procedure can be conducted , as a relevant novelty, without the use of wires, avoiding that physical link between machine and brain.<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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