1. Electronic Brain Implants Alex Burns COSC380 Alex Burns COSC380

2. Electronic Brain Implants What are brain implants? How Brain implants work History of brain implants Present day and current specifications The future of brain implants Advantages v. Disadvantages Alex Burns COSC3801

3. Electronic Brain Implants Alex Burns COSC3802 Neuroprosthetics Neural Implants -Technological devices connected directly to the brain, usually placed on the surface or cortex.

4. History 1870 – Eduard Hitzig & Gustav Fritsch 1874 – Robert Bartholow 20 th century – Fedor Krause 1950s – Robert G. Heath – Jose Delgado – CIA (MKULTRA) 1976 – Edward Schmidt 1997 – Brain pacemaker 2005 – BrainGate System 2008 – Brain Controls Robot Alex Burns COSC3803

5. Present Day Plexon – Implantable Electrodes BrainGate System – Leading Prosthetics System DARPA – Prosthetics Research Memory Creation – Fear in Mice Muscular Therapy Sensory Therapy Alex Burns COSC3803

6. Hardware Materials – Tungsten, Silicon, Platinum-Iridium, Stainless-steel, Titanium BrainGate System Stretchable Gold Nanoparticle Conductor Alex Burns COSC3803

7. Future Cure/Treat Alzheimer’s Disease – Theodore Berger Robotics/More Advanced Prosthetics Advanced Learning Alex Burns COSC3803

8. Advantages Human “Modification” Better Prosthetics Neural Treatments Advanced Communication Alex Burns COSC3803

9. Disadvantages Denaturalization of Human Kind Security Integrity Control Manufacturing and Implementation Side-effects Alex Burns COSC3803

10. Electronic Brain Implants What are brain implants? How Brain implants work History of brain implants Present day and current specifications The future of brain implants Advantages v. Disadvantages Alex Burns COSC3801

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