Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions

This podcast's purpose is to bring together the field of neuroprosthetics / brain machine interfaces / brain implants in an understandable conversation about the current topics and breakthroughs. We hope to complement scientific papers on new neural research in an easy, digestable way. Innovators and professionals can share thoughts or ideas to facilitate 'idea sex' to make the field of brain implants a smaller and more personal space.

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Dr. Kevin Warwick on how he became the world's first cyborg

In this episode, I personally went to meet Dr. Kevin Warwick in Prague for a personal interview. We talk about how he became the world's first cyborg when he implanted a RFID capsule in his arm in 1998. With this, he was able to control the smart doors in his building as well as to play a personalized greeting when he entered his office. Then in 2002 he had the Utah Electrode Array implanted in his arm and was the first person to receive signals directly into his nervous system. We had a funny c...

May 15, 2017•1 hr 14 min

Dr. Memming Park on decoding the information from brain implants

Dr. Memming Park is a researcher from Stony Brooke University in New York whose research is on the programming to decode neuronal activity read by neural interfaces. We talk about the limits of this code as well as what would be needed to improve it further.

May 08, 2017•35 min

Dr. Maria Asplund on the benefits of PEDOT coatings for better neuronal attachment

Dr. Maria Asplund is a researcher in Freiburg, Germany who works mainly in PEDOT. She talks about the benefits of PEDOT as a coating for neural implants. It allows for functionalization of the surface as well as a better connection to brain cells. It has a porous surface as well as good conductance which means that you have a better signal. We then talk about the differences with carbon nanotube electrodes and the benefits of both.

May 01, 2017•37 min

Dr. Dominique Durand on talks about conductible nanotube yarn in Neural Engineering

Dr. Dominique Durand has main research in deep brain stimulation, conductible nanoyarn in Neural Engineering, and global electric fields in the brain. We talk about the early days of Neural Engineering back when the terminology wasn't created back in the 70's and 80's. Then we talk about the breakthroughs with nanotube yarn and the possible benefits of this. Finally, we talk about his research with global electric fields in the brain and what this means....

Apr 24, 2017•32 min

Dr. Kip Ludwig on how to bypass medications with control of peripheral nerves

Dr. Kip Ludwig is a researcher who deals with the nervous system as it relates to the rest of the body. His dream is that it would be able to bypass medications which can be ineffective as well as dangerous. It would be possible to directly control the behavior of particular organs. This field is advancing at an incredible pace and even he is surprised by some of the things he hears about.

Apr 17, 2017•48 min

Dr. Walter Voit on temperature dependent stiffnesses in brain implants

Dr. Walter Voit is a Wunderkind of a professor being so young and having been able to secure so much funding in his groundbreaking work. He works mainly with 3D printed materials as well as temperature dependent materials which can be used in brain implants. We talk about entrepreneurship and spinoff companies from this growing lab which now has 100+ members.

Apr 10, 2017•58 min

Dr. Chad Bouton on teaching paralysed people to play Guitar Hero

Dr. Chad Bouton is an award-winning researcher who was recently able to bypass the damaged area of a paralyzed patient to allow him to play Guitar Hero again. Complex movements like this require intricate control of the fingers which have not been possible in the past. We also talk about the methods used by his team in order to embrace glial scarring and instead of listening to neurons at a farther range. In this way, it is possible to pick up many more neurons per electrode and get more informa...

Apr 10, 2017•40 min

Introductory Episode of the Neural Implant podcast

Welcome to the introductory episode of the Neural Implant podcast. I talk about the goals and aims of this podcast, to interview the leaders in the Brain Machine Interface field. The idea is to bring together the field of neuroprosthetics (brain machine interfaces? brain implants?) in an understandable conversation about the current topics and breakthroughs. I hope to replace needing to read scientific papers on new research in an easy to digest way so people can share thoughts or ideas to facil...

Apr 10, 2017•10 min

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