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Miguel Nicolelis

Professor of Neurobiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.

Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., is the Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Duke University Professor of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering and Psychology and Neuroscience, and founder of Duke's Center for Neuroengineering. He is the founder and Scientific Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal.  Dr. Nicolelis is also founder of the Walk Again Project, an international consortium of scientists and engineers, dedicated to the development of an exoskeleton device to assist severely paralyzed patients in regaining full body mobility.

Dr. Nicolelis has dedicated his career to investigate how the brains of freely behaving animals encode sensory and motor information. As a result of his studies, Dr. Nicolelis was first to propose and demonstrate that animals and human subjects can utilize their electrical brain activity to directly control neuroprosthetic devices via brain-machine interfaces (BMI).

Visit website: http://www.nicolelislab.net/

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See also: Academia Duke University - Private research university in Durham, North Carolina

Details last updated 09-Aug-2020

Miguel Nicolelis News

Can an uploaded brain live forever?

TechRadar - 24-Sep-2016

Today’s supercomputers are nowhere near the complexity and power of the brain. But lots of teams...

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Brain compass implant gives blind rats psychic GPS

New Scientist - 02-Apr-2015

A neuroprosthesis that feeds geomagnetic signals into the brains of blind rats has enabled them t...

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