BRAIN IMPLANTS
Brain Implants
The technology required to create medical bionics devices can be used in multiple applications and we are now using our expertise to develop a variety of brain implants.
To maximise our capablitites we are developing a medical bionics platform technology. This involves collaborating with key clinical and engineering partners to enable the transferral of technological advances from one project to another.
New theoretical ideas, experimental studies, and technologies provided by our clinical and research partners at St Vincent’s Hospital and the Universities of Melbourne and Wollongong allow us to stimulate nerves selectively in the brain and the spinal cord for applications including focal epilepsy, and traumatic injuries such as paraplegia and phantom limb pain.
These advances may also feed back into bionic ear research to provide more selective stimulation of hearing nerves and finer auditory discrimination of sound.
