April 3rd, 2010 
nrmodh “THE leg wasn’t bouncing all over the table, but there were substantial twitches,” says Matthew Schiefer, a neural engineer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Schiefer is describing an experiment in which pulses of electricity are used to control the muscles of an unconscious patient, as if they were a marionette. It represents [...]
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