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 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 ...
A paralyzed man in his 40s is now able to feel and use objects through the hands of another person, after receiving a brain ...
Researchers have found that the brain stores detailed information of a missing hand decades after amputation, regardless of whether amputees still experience phantom hand sensations. Researchers have ...
Most of us take for granted the many routine tasks of everyday life in which we grasp and manipulate objects. But it can be devastating to lose these abilities, as often happens following cervical ...
"Admiring your own handiwork" is a familiar expression containing an important truth about the mind. We handed this particular story to our Tony Dokoupil: Are you the kind of person who actually likes ...