Monday, November 19, 2012 4:35:30 AM
Puzzlebox Orbit: Brain-Controlled Helicopter
Introduction video for Puzzlebox Orbit, an educational toy that combines a brain-controlled helicopter with open hardware, software, and teaching material.
http://kck.st/SFGuDx [ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/puzzlebox/puzzlebox-orbit-brain-controlled-helicopter ]
Operated via an EEG headset from NeuroSky plus either your mobile device or the dedicated Pyramid remote, you can fly the Orbit through focused concentration or by achieving mental relaxation. What makes the Puzzlebox Orbit truly unique however is the open release of all source code, hardware schematics, 3D models, and step-by-step building instructions which are published freely online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0e6q400-ig [via/more at e.g. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2234104/The-remote-control-helicopter-control-mind.html (with comments)]
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Puzzlebox Jigsaw - Racing - PGR3 - New York City - Overhead
Realtime visual display of levels of Attention (in red) and Meditation (blue) as recorded during gameplay using Puzzlebox Jigsaw and a NeuroSky MindSet EEG headset. A rolling 30-second history is visible in the top-right corner as are instantaneous meters visible along the right-hand side. The replay view was set to the original overhead perspective for a more clear understanding of what the original player saw.
The game is Project Gotham Racing 3, driving a Corvette ZR-1 through New York City.
For more information please visit http://brainstorms.puzzlebox.info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM-bhhEDH_U [(linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=56065387 and preceding and following]
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Vegetative patient Scott Routley says 'I'm not in pain'
Video [embedded]
The moment when Prof Owen asked patient Scott whether he was in pain
By Fergus Walsh
Medical correspondent
12 November 2012 Last updated at 19:47 ET
A Canadian man who was believed to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, has been able to tell scientists that he is not in any pain.
It's the first time an uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care.
Scott Routley, 39, was asked questions while having his brain activity scanned in an fMRI machine.
His doctor says the discovery means medical textbooks will need rewriting.
Vegetative patients emerge from a coma into a condition where they have periods awake, with their eyes open, but have no perception of themselves or the outside world.
Mr Routley suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident 12 years ago.
None of his physical assessments since then have shown any sign of awareness, or ability to communicate.
But the British neuroscientist Prof Adrian Owen - who led the team at the Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario - said Mr Routley was clearly not vegetative.
"Scott has been able to show he has a conscious, thinking mind. We have scanned him several times and his pattern of brain activity shows he is clearly choosing to answer our questions. We believe he knows who and where he is."
Prof Owen said it was a groundbreaking moment.
"Asking a patient something important to them has been our aim for many years. In future we could ask what we could do to improve their quality of life. It could be simple things like the entertainment we provide or the times of day they are washed and fed."
Scott Routley's parents say they always thought he was conscious and could communicate by lifting a thumb or moving his eyes. But this has never been accepted by medical staff.
Prof Bryan Young at University Hospital, London - Mr Routley's neurologist for a decade - said the scan results overturned all the behavioural assessments that had been made over the years.
"I was impressed and amazed that he was able to show these cognitive responses. He had the clinical picture of a typical vegetative patient and showed no spontaneous movements that looked meaningful."
Observational assessments of Mr Routley since he responded in the scanner have continued to suggest he is vegetative. Prof Young said medical textbooks would need to be updated to include Prof Owen's techniques.
The BBC's Panorama programme followed several vegetative and minimally-conscious patients in Britain and Canada for more than a year.
Another Canadian patient, Steven Graham, was able to demonstrate that he had laid down new memories since his brain injury. Mr Graham answers yes when asked whether his sister has a daughter. His niece was born after his car accident five years ago.
The Panorama team also followed three patients at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (RHN) in Putney, which specialises in the rehabilitation of brain-injured patients.
It collaborates with a team of Cambridge University neuroscientists at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre at Addenbrooke's hospital, Cambridge.
Video [embedded]
Panorama's Fergus Walsh meets Professor Adrian Owen to learn what the brain is like when in a vegetative state
One of the patients is diagnosed as vegetative by the RHN, and he is also unable to show awareness in an fMRI machine.
A second patient, who was not able to be fully assessed by the RHN because of repeated sickness, is later shown to have some limited awareness in brain scans.
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FMRI SCANNING
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging measures the real-time activity of the brain by tracking the flow of oxygen-rich blood
The patients were repeatedly asked to imagine playing tennis or walking around their home
In healthy volunteers each produces a distinct pattern of activity, in the premotor cortex for the first task and the parahippocampal gyrus for the second
It allowed the researchers to put a series of yes or no questions to severely brain-injured patients. A minority were able to answer by using the power of thought
In 2010 Prof Owen published research [ http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0905370 ] showing that nearly one in five of the vegetative patients were able to communicate using brain activity
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Related Stories
Finding a voice for the brain injured 13 NOVEMBER 2012, HEALTH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20303082
Scanner helps paralysed people 29 JUNE 2012, TECHNOLOGY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18644084
New hope for brain damaged patients Watch 10 NOVEMBER 2011, HEALTH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15685824
New hope for head injury patients 09 NOVEMBER 2011, HEALTH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15661977
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Related Internet links
Brain and Mind Institute
http://www.uwo.ca/its/brain/
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
http://www.rhn.org.uk/
Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre
http://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk/
Brain Injury Group
http://www.braininjurygroup.org.uk/
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Finding a voice for the brain injured
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20303082
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The Mind Reader: Unlocking My Voice - a Panorama Special - will be broadcast on Tuesday, 13 November, at 22:35 on BBC One. It wil be on BBC World News on Saturday, 17 November, at 09:10 GMT and on Sunday, 18 November at 02:10 & 15:10 GMT. Alternatively, catch up later [in the UK] on the BBC iPlayer [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ny377/Panorama_The_Mind_Reader_Unlocking_My_Voice/ , via http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ny377 , via http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t14n/broadcasts/2012/11 ].
BBC © 2012
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Published on Nov 12, 2012 by puzzleboxlimited
Introduction video for Puzzlebox Orbit, an educational toy that combines a brain-controlled helicopter with open hardware, software, and teaching material.
http://kck.st/SFGuDx [ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/puzzlebox/puzzlebox-orbit-brain-controlled-helicopter ]
Operated via an EEG headset from NeuroSky plus either your mobile device or the dedicated Pyramid remote, you can fly the Orbit through focused concentration or by achieving mental relaxation. What makes the Puzzlebox Orbit truly unique however is the open release of all source code, hardware schematics, 3D models, and step-by-step building instructions which are published freely online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0e6q400-ig [via/more at e.g. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2234104/The-remote-control-helicopter-control-mind.html (with comments)]
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Puzzlebox Jigsaw - Racing - PGR3 - New York City - Overhead
Uploaded by puzzleboxlimited on Jan 24, 2011
Realtime visual display of levels of Attention (in red) and Meditation (blue) as recorded during gameplay using Puzzlebox Jigsaw and a NeuroSky MindSet EEG headset. A rolling 30-second history is visible in the top-right corner as are instantaneous meters visible along the right-hand side. The replay view was set to the original overhead perspective for a more clear understanding of what the original player saw.
The game is Project Gotham Racing 3, driving a Corvette ZR-1 through New York City.
For more information please visit http://brainstorms.puzzlebox.info
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Vegetative patient Scott Routley says 'I'm not in pain'
Video [embedded]
The moment when Prof Owen asked patient Scott whether he was in pain
By Fergus Walsh
Medical correspondent
12 November 2012 Last updated at 19:47 ET
A Canadian man who was believed to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, has been able to tell scientists that he is not in any pain.
It's the first time an uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care.
Scott Routley, 39, was asked questions while having his brain activity scanned in an fMRI machine.
His doctor says the discovery means medical textbooks will need rewriting.
Vegetative patients emerge from a coma into a condition where they have periods awake, with their eyes open, but have no perception of themselves or the outside world.
Mr Routley suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident 12 years ago.
None of his physical assessments since then have shown any sign of awareness, or ability to communicate.
But the British neuroscientist Prof Adrian Owen - who led the team at the Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario - said Mr Routley was clearly not vegetative.
"Scott has been able to show he has a conscious, thinking mind. We have scanned him several times and his pattern of brain activity shows he is clearly choosing to answer our questions. We believe he knows who and where he is."
Prof Owen said it was a groundbreaking moment.
"Asking a patient something important to them has been our aim for many years. In future we could ask what we could do to improve their quality of life. It could be simple things like the entertainment we provide or the times of day they are washed and fed."
Scott Routley's parents say they always thought he was conscious and could communicate by lifting a thumb or moving his eyes. But this has never been accepted by medical staff.
Prof Bryan Young at University Hospital, London - Mr Routley's neurologist for a decade - said the scan results overturned all the behavioural assessments that had been made over the years.
"I was impressed and amazed that he was able to show these cognitive responses. He had the clinical picture of a typical vegetative patient and showed no spontaneous movements that looked meaningful."
Observational assessments of Mr Routley since he responded in the scanner have continued to suggest he is vegetative. Prof Young said medical textbooks would need to be updated to include Prof Owen's techniques.
The BBC's Panorama programme followed several vegetative and minimally-conscious patients in Britain and Canada for more than a year.
Another Canadian patient, Steven Graham, was able to demonstrate that he had laid down new memories since his brain injury. Mr Graham answers yes when asked whether his sister has a daughter. His niece was born after his car accident five years ago.
The Panorama team also followed three patients at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (RHN) in Putney, which specialises in the rehabilitation of brain-injured patients.
It collaborates with a team of Cambridge University neuroscientists at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre at Addenbrooke's hospital, Cambridge.
Video [embedded]
Panorama's Fergus Walsh meets Professor Adrian Owen to learn what the brain is like when in a vegetative state
One of the patients is diagnosed as vegetative by the RHN, and he is also unable to show awareness in an fMRI machine.
A second patient, who was not able to be fully assessed by the RHN because of repeated sickness, is later shown to have some limited awareness in brain scans.
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FMRI SCANNING
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging measures the real-time activity of the brain by tracking the flow of oxygen-rich blood
The patients were repeatedly asked to imagine playing tennis or walking around their home
In healthy volunteers each produces a distinct pattern of activity, in the premotor cortex for the first task and the parahippocampal gyrus for the second
It allowed the researchers to put a series of yes or no questions to severely brain-injured patients. A minority were able to answer by using the power of thought
In 2010 Prof Owen published research [ http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0905370 ] showing that nearly one in five of the vegetative patients were able to communicate using brain activity
*
Related Stories
Finding a voice for the brain injured 13 NOVEMBER 2012, HEALTH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20303082
Scanner helps paralysed people 29 JUNE 2012, TECHNOLOGY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18644084
New hope for brain damaged patients Watch 10 NOVEMBER 2011, HEALTH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15685824
New hope for head injury patients 09 NOVEMBER 2011, HEALTH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15661977
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Related Internet links
Brain and Mind Institute
http://www.uwo.ca/its/brain/
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
http://www.rhn.org.uk/
Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre
http://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk/
Brain Injury Group
http://www.braininjurygroup.org.uk/
*
Read the blog
Finding a voice for the brain injured
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20303082
*
The Mind Reader: Unlocking My Voice - a Panorama Special - will be broadcast on Tuesday, 13 November, at 22:35 on BBC One. It wil be on BBC World News on Saturday, 17 November, at 09:10 GMT and on Sunday, 18 November at 02:10 & 15:10 GMT. Alternatively, catch up later [in the UK] on the BBC iPlayer [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ny377/Panorama_The_Mind_Reader_Unlocking_My_Voice/ , via http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ny377 , via http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t14n/broadcasts/2012/11 ].
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