An illustration of the team's technology, which combines a bionic limb with brain implants to reproduce more complex sensations of touch. © Chalmers University of ...

For individuals living with a spinal cord injury, the electrical signals coming from the hand to the brain that should allow an individual to feel tactile sensations are being blocked by the ...

The researchers' approach to prosthetic sensation involves placing tiny electrode arrays in the parts of the brain responsible for moving and feeling the hand. On one side, a participant can move ...

Researchers from Imperial College London in the UK and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy show how hand and brain movement patterns are related, opening the door to creating bionic limbs ...

A type of noninvasive brain stimulation ... The current stimulates the area of the motor cortex that controls hand function. The stimulation device is small (it fits into the palm of the hand ...