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Article #22634Re: Nerve interface was Re: FSK, Vision, and the Brain
From: Jean-Michel Friedt
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:03
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:03
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> about it, a severed nerve "wants" to grow back, and one doctor > told me that they do a millimeter a week. So what we'd need to > do is find something to do to an interface chip that makes it > "look" (or feel) like a dendrite to the live neuron. I'd be A major issue here is that electrical connexion is not sufficient to keep a neural connexion happy. You also need chemical communication, and the surface chemistry involved is far from trivial (but I'm not sure I am allowed to elaborate too much on this topic). JM
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