brentg
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Hi, I'm an engineer at UCLA working to create non-invasive brain-machine interfaces as part of the Neural Engineering and Computation Lab . More details below, but high-level idea is to create devices for people with paralysis to use computers and control robotic arms with only their thoughts!
If you are in the Los Angeles area and have ALS and think you might be interested in learning more about the research study, please shoot me a DM! Or if you have family or friends with ALS who are interested, please have them reach out as well, or they can directly email the professor running the lab, Jonathan Kao, at [email protected]. Experiments will be done at UCLA, or potential for our team to travel to you as well.
Our research uses EEG and EMG electrodes on the scalp and arms (the scalp electrodes work through hair - no head shaving, worn the EEG myself a lot) in order to pick up neural and attempted motor activity, and then we decode those signals to control a computer cursor or robotic arm. Important to note we're doing a research study, not a clinical study, so that means there won't be any direct benefit to participating in the study - instead the point of the study is to help advance science so future devices can be created using the technology that will directly help people with paralysis. Also, I can say from personal experience its pretty dang cool to try and control a computer just by thinking about it.
Happy to answer any questions in comments or via DM - and here's the website for our lab if you want to poke around! Neural Engineering and Computation Lab
If you are in the Los Angeles area and have ALS and think you might be interested in learning more about the research study, please shoot me a DM! Or if you have family or friends with ALS who are interested, please have them reach out as well, or they can directly email the professor running the lab, Jonathan Kao, at [email protected]. Experiments will be done at UCLA, or potential for our team to travel to you as well.
Our research uses EEG and EMG electrodes on the scalp and arms (the scalp electrodes work through hair - no head shaving, worn the EEG myself a lot) in order to pick up neural and attempted motor activity, and then we decode those signals to control a computer cursor or robotic arm. Important to note we're doing a research study, not a clinical study, so that means there won't be any direct benefit to participating in the study - instead the point of the study is to help advance science so future devices can be created using the technology that will directly help people with paralysis. Also, I can say from personal experience its pretty dang cool to try and control a computer just by thinking about it.
Happy to answer any questions in comments or via DM - and here's the website for our lab if you want to poke around! Neural Engineering and Computation Lab
