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Technology available to FBI, CIA and NSA PSYCHOPATHS is 30 years AHEAD of
technology available to the american public.

ONLY LOW IQ SLAVES and MORONS are obsessed by tin foils and meds. Read the
following and EDUCATE and PROTECT YOURSELF and YOUR FAMILIES from the EVIL
AMERICAN GOVT PSYCHOPATHS.

EVERY AMERICAN will be MANDATORILY  INSERTED with a SYNTHETIC TELEPATHY chip
in about 10 -15 years from now so the EVIL AMERICAN GOVT can know WHAT YOU
are THINKING.

FDA already APPROVED verichip to be IMPLANTED in patients bodies. Just
google for the words "verichip" and patients.



http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/8add8661de87ddc3?hl=en&;


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115274937020005165.html?mod=djemTAR

A start-up founded by leading neuroscientists will report that a
patient in a clinical trial who had electrodes implanted in his brain used
his thoughts to control a computer cursor, send email and operate a
robotic arm.


Harnessing Thought to Help the Injured

By SHIRLEY WANG and ANTONIO REGALADO
July 13, 2006; Page B1

Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing thoughts to allow amputees to
move their prosthetic limbs or patients with brain-stem injuries to speak
with the aid of a computer.

Results released today from a clinical trial of four paralyzed patients
suggest the mind-control technology faces complex challenges but appears to
be feasible. In the latest in a series of pioneering human tests of direct
mind control over electronic devices, a start-up company founded by leading
neuroscientists reports in the journal Nature that a patient who had
electrodes implanted in his brain used his thoughts to control a computer
cursor, send email and operate a robotic arm.

Engineers have envisioned using the mind to directly control devices for
decades, but technological advances and better understanding of the brain
have made actual tests in humans possible only recently. And some hope that
new investments by the U.S. military will result in a few years in new
devices to help veterans and others with devastating injuries.

"The whole field is bubbling up," says Philip Kennedy, chief scientist and
CEO of Neural Signals, a closely held Atlanta company doing research in the
field. While still at an early stage, excitement over early findings has led
to increases in funding and attention.

The four-patient trial, including the patient described in Nature, uses
what's known as a "neural prosthetic," an implant to record nerve signals
inside the brain and use them to control electronic devices. The study was
paid for and the brain implant built by Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology
Systems Inc., a Foxborough, Mass. company.

Researchers caution that it will likely take a decade for brain implants or
similar devices to come to market -- a long time for companies in the field
to wait for a payoff. "This is a start, showing efficacy in a human, but
still far from being a useful device," says Andrew Schwartz, a professor of
neurobiology and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh who has
conducted similar research in monkeys.

Scientists are pursuing a range of strategies to achieve the goal of direct
mind control over machines. Some efforts measure signals inside the brain,
others use brain waves that can be recorded outside the skull.

Creating a fast, reliable and, above all, natural way for patients to use
limbs and senses that they thought were gone is the ultimate goal of the
field of brain-computer interfaces, says Leigh Hochberg, a neuroscientist at
Massachusetts General Hospital who is the lead author of the Nature article.

The study shows that "this part of the brain can still be used to control an
external device even years after spinal-cord injury," Dr. Hochberg says.

The large number of injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has
motivated the government to accelerate prosthetics research. In February,
the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off two programs
backed by $48.5 million in funding to create artificial limbs, including
ones that can be operated by the wearer's thoughts.

"We can have a big impact on people's lives. People who have been doing
their part on behalf of the country," says Rick Needham, an engineer with
Manchester, N.H.-based DEKA Research & Development Corp., which is being
funded by Darpa. DEKA, whose president, Dean Kamen, also created the Segway
upright scooter, is working on a sophisticated battery-powered prosthetic
arm with rotating shoulder, elbow and wrist joints.

To effectively operate such sophisticated devices, direct brain control
could be useful. Scientists like Dr. Schwartz have shown that by placing
electrodes in the brains of monkeys, they can listen in on nerve signals
that tell them how an animal intends to move.

In one 2000 experiment, for instance, researchers at Duke University used a
monkey's thoughts to control a robot hundreds of miles away in
Massachusetts.

In the Cyberkinetics clinical trial, doctors have surgically implanted
nearly 100 electrodes in the brains of four patients. Computer software was
used to pick up signals from the patient's brains as they imagined making
movements, such as moving their arms.

The patient whose experience was described in Nature is Matthew Nagle, who
was paralyzed in 2001 when he was 21. He was the first person outfitted with
the Cyberkinetics system. He was able to draw simple figures on a computer
screen, and even play the videogame Pong, using his thoughts. Mr. Nagle's
implant also was connected to a robotic arm, which he used to move an
object, and a prosthetic hand, which he opened and closed.

Mr. Nagle had the device removed at the end of his one-year trial in order
to have an operation to assist his breathing.

Since 2004, Cyberkinetics has raised more than $17 million from selling
stock and warrants to investors. The company's stock is traded on the OTC
Bulletin Board, where stocks of small companies often trade when they can't
meet the listing requirements for the larger Nasdaq market.

Joseph Pancrazio, program director for neural engineering in the division of
extramural research of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke in Bethesda, Md., says the Nature study "has tremendous implications
for the application of brain-machine interfaces with people with
disabilities." Given that so much earlier work with implants involved
healthy monkeys, their employment in injured humans is "a major milestone."
The institute spent $25 million on neural prosthetics in 2005, he says, and
funded work that led to the current study.

Not all scientists in the field are ready to be impressed yet. "I'm asking
myself, what was the advantage that the patient got?" says Miguel Nicolelis,
a professor of neurobiology at Duke University. "What has been accomplished
could have been accomplished from noninvasive methods?"

The New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center in Albany, N.Y.,
has been working on using a less-invasive technology, a brain-wave cap,
which fits much like a swim cap, to allow patients to email from their
homes, according to Jonathan Wolpaw, who heads the center's laboratory that
studies nervous-system disorders. The first patient, a scientist in his late
40s with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, was fitted
with a brain-computer-interface system in February and can send emails at
the rate of a couple words a minute. A second user, an ALS sufferer in his
late 60s, will be fitted with the system this month. The entire system costs
less than $5,000.

Dr. Wolpaw's research program, whose funding comes from the National
Institutes of Health and various private foundations, is looking into
establishing a nonprofit company for this technology in the next few months.

For a few patients, any connection to the outside world may be of value.
Neural Signals is in the process of harnessing brain-computer-interface
technology to restore conversational speech in people who have lost the
ability to talk. An electrode is implanted into one brain region involved in
speech, Broca's area, and a computer tries to translate the patterns into
sound.

The company has implanted electrodes in five patients since 1996, according
Dr. Kennedy, the CEO. Their current patient, a 23-year-old who suffered
brain-stem trauma from a stroke following a car accident, received the
implant in December 2004. He has limited ability to move just his eyes.
After his semiweekly sessions using the system, he is able to make seven
sounds or short words, including "yes" and "no." The goal is to give him the
ability to speak 100 words, a goal that is reachable within the year,
according to Dr. Kennedy.

Write to Shirley Wang at shirley.wang@xxxxxxx and Antonio Regalado at