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Miguel Nicolelis
Brazilian
Scientist
Born:
Mar 7
,
1961
About
Brain
Brains
Created
Electrical
You
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We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.
Miguel Nicolelis
Communicate
Our
Signals
About
Through
Another
Brains
Cells
Interconnected
Electrical
Million
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.
Miguel Nicolelis
Nature
Human Nature
Universe
Symphonies
Relentless
Emerge
Neurons
Source
Same
Human
Essentially
Interconnected
Dynamic
Einstein
Mozart
Produced
View
Toil
Large
Paintings
Expressions
Ever
The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
Miguel Nicolelis
Needs
Logical
Telling
Coming
Brain
Going
Where
Screenplay
Story
There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson's disease.
Miguel Nicolelis
Control
Several
Carry
Thousands
Restore
Neurological
Parkinson
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Like
Periphery
Brain
Disease
Diseases
Patients
Either
Functions
Ear
Inner
The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.
Miguel Nicolelis
Chasing
Colleagues
Kind
See
Neuroscience
Almost
Like
Always
Want
Storms
Measure
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.
Miguel Nicolelis
Made
Nervous
System
Nervous System
New
Brains
Central
Created
Two
It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.
Miguel Nicolelis
Time
Feedback
First
Before
Our
Has-Been
Something
Outside
Never
First Time
Robotics
Demonstration
Doing
Been
Brain
Very
Offered
Controlled
Done
Stadium
Patients
Much
Activity
Routine
We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.
Miguel Nicolelis
People
Political
Will
Enough
Could
Investment
Obsolete
Make
Want
Imaginations
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.
Miguel Nicolelis
People
Thought
Sense
Changed
Intriguing
Self
Lot
Very
Quickly
We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.
Miguel Nicolelis
Research
Back
Way
Signals
Record
Neurons
Developing
Simultaneously
Us
Produced
Electrical
Technique
Early
Started
Early 1990s
We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.
Miguel Nicolelis
Out
Computational
Brains
Created
Unit
Basically
Two
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