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Brain implant helps speech-impaired patients communicate via computer (Emory University)

Emory University neuroscientist Philip R. Kennedy, M.D., and Emory neurosurgeon Roy E. Bakay, M.D., have developed an electrode brain implant that is allowing speech-impaired patients to communicate through a computer.
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Restoration of neural output from a paralyzed patient by a direct brain connection, NeuroReport, June 1998 (cached copy)

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Recording of movement-related potentials from scalp and cortex in man
R Neshige, H Luders and H Shibasaki
Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio.
Brain, Vol 111, Issue 3 719-736

Cognitive motor control in human pre-supplementary motor area studied by subdural recording of discrimination/selection-related potentials
Akio Ikeda, Shogo Yazawa, Takeharu Kunieda, Shinji Ohara, Kiyohito Terada, Nobuhiro Mikuni, Takashi Nagamine, Waro Taki, Jun Kimura and Hiroshi Shibasaki
Kyoto University School of Medicine,Kyoto, Japan
Brain, Vol. 122, No. 5, 915-931, May 1999 (pdf)

Plasticity of the sensorimotor cortex representation of the reading finger in Braille readers
A Pascual-Leone and F Torres
Human Cortical Physiology Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Brain, Vol 116, Issue 1 39-52

Functional coupling and regional activation of human cortical motor areas during simple, internally paced and externally paced finger movements
C Gerloff, J Richard, J Hadley, AE Schulman, M Honda, and M Hallett
Brain, Vol. 121, No. 8, 1513-1531, August 1, 1998 (pdf)

Movement-related potentials recorded from supplementary motor area and primary motor area. Role of supplementary motor area in voluntary movements
A Ikeda, HO Luders, RC Burgess and H Shibasaki
Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195.
Brain, Vol 115, Issue 4 1017-1043

*Mesial Motor Areas in Self-Initiated Versus Externally Triggered Movements Examined With fMRI: Effect of Movement Type and Rate
Marie-Pierre Deiber Manabu Honda Vicente Ibañez Norihiro Sadato and Mark Hallett
The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 81 No. 6 June 1999, pp. 3065-3077 (pdf)

Knowledge of motor commands and the recruitment of human motoneurons
SC Gandevia and JC Rothwell
Department of Neurology, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Brain, Vol 110, Issue 5 1117-1130

Changes in single motor unit behaviour contribute to the increase in contraction speed after dynamic training in humans
Michaël Van Cutsem, Jacques Duchateau and Karl Hainaut
Laboratory of Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 28 avenue P. Héger, CP 168, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
The Journal of Physiology (1998), 513.1, pp. 295-305 (pdf)

Regenerating myelin
Neil Scolding
Frenchay Hospital, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Brain, Vol. 124, No. 11, 2129-2130, November 2001 (pdf)

Transcranial magnetic stimulation
John Rothwell
Brain 1998. 121:397-398 (pdf)