SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuroscience
research has gone wireless.
Today, Blackrock Microsystems LLC announced that it has struck
an agreement with Brown University to
license and commercialize a wireless neural activity monitoring
system that will liberate neuroscientists from the cumbersome wires
and cables that have burdened their research for decades.
The journal Neuron just published a paper on a wireless
neurosensor from the Neuroengineering Laboratory at Brown, which significantly outperforms all other
wireless sensors currently on the market. Related to that paper,
senior author Arto Nurmikko
commented, "This device enables new types of neuroscience
experiments with vast amounts of brain data wirelessly and
continuously streamed from brain microcircuits."
Blackrock first unveiled the system - to rave reviews - at the
Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., this past November. The
Blackrock system, which includes Brown's technology, can transmit large amounts of
data - via 96 channels at 48 Mbps - from a subject's brain for up
to 48 hours between rechargeable battery replacements. And at 43
grams and 60 cubic centimeters, it's more compact than any other
wireless brain technology to date.
Conventional wired neuroscience research systems limit subjects'
movement and make it tremendously difficult for researchers to
study sleep. Blackrock's new wireless system eliminates such
problems.
"This wireless system is a major step forward in brain-interface
technology," said Professor Florian
Solzbacher, Ph.D., president of Blackrock Microsystems.
"We're working hard to make this technology smaller and
longer-lasting. These systems can have every-day, practical uses
for people, and we're determined to make that a reality."
About Blackrock Microsystems LLC
Blackrock
Microsystems, based in Salt Lake
City, was founded in 2008 and has become the world's leading
provider of technology in the neuroscience, neural engineering, and
neural prosthetics space. The Company's technology has been at the
core of worldwide innovations in Brain Machine Interfaces,
implantable bionic technologies and epilepsy diagnostics.
www.blackrockmicro.com
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