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Graphene-based brain implant detects more activity than electrodes

Flexibility allows more recording sites and detection of low frequency activity

28-Jan-2019

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Implant uses a transistor-based architecture that amplifies the brain’s signals in situ.

Records electrical activity in the brain over large areas and at frequencies below 0.1Hz.

Slim and flexible enough to be used over large areas of the cortex.

Can support many more recording sites than a standard electrode array.

Low-frequency brain activity carries crucial information such as the onset of strokes.

New generation of brain-computer interfaces could repair high-level cognitive functions.

Developed by Graphene Flagship.

The study was published in Nature Materials.

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Barcelona Microelectronics Institute (IMB)

IMB-CNM is a research institute of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) developing micro and nano-electronic.

Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2)

Institute that studies & applies the behaviour of matter at the nanoscale.

Jose Antonio Garrido

ICREA Research Professor, Group Leader and Vice Director at ICN2.

Nature Materials

Journal providing information from all areas of materials science and engineering.

The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)

Research institute devoted to the science and technology of light.

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