The human hand is a wonder of strength, sensitivity and discrimination — not only because of those four fingers and the opposable thumb, but also because of the human brain that controls it. No wonder ...

Brain implant and bionic hand helped patient regain sense of touch. — -- Twelve years after becoming paralyzed in a car accident, Nathan Copeland remembered the moment he was finally able to ...

A paralyzed man in his 40s is now able to feel and use objects through the hands of another person, after receiving a brain ...

A paralyzed 24-year-old man has regained some use of his right hand, controlling it with signals relayed from electronic sensors in his brain. Ian Burkhart of Dublin, Ohio, can grasp a bottle, pour ...

A new brain-machine technology delivers messages from the brain directly to the muscles -- bypassing the spinal cord -- to enable voluntary and complex movement of a paralyzed hand. The device could ...

DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program aims to develop technologies that can restore a near-natural sense of touch. A prosthetic hand that is connected directly to the brain successfully enabled ...

Research on prosthetic hands has come a long way, but most of it has focused on improving the way the body controls the device. Now, it may also be possible for prosthetic hands to send signals back ...

Ultra high-res brain scanning has revealed clear maps of individual toes in two foot painters, born without either arm. While these organised toe maps are not found in typically developed humans, they ...

The brain holds space for a missing limb, even years after it’s gone. For three women who underwent planned hand amputations, brain scans revealed remarkably durable maps of hand areas, lasting for ...