Current Research
Clinical Research
DBS for Essential Tremor Study . Click Here for details.
Laboratory Research
A Human Cortical Prosthetic to assist severly paralyzed patients
This study, under way at the Andersen
Lab at Caltech and
Huntington Memorial
Hospital, has the goal of developing a means of communication
with the external world for severely paralyzed or “locked-in”
patients. A parietal cortical brain implant is being developed,
capable of interpreting a patient’s plans for movement
and allowing the patient to control a computer cursor, and eventually
a prosthetic arm.
Moveable Electrodes
One of the limiting factors in the development of cortical prosthetic
applications has been the difficulty of maintaining long-term
recordings of neurons. This project, under way at the Andersen,
Burdick, and Tai labs
at Caltech, and utilizing MEMS technology, has the goal of developing
“smart” electrodes capable of optimizing their position
with respect to near-by neurons in the brain in order to increase
the longevity of recording signals.
