Best quotes by Miguel Nicolelis on Brain

Checkout quotes by Miguel Nicolelis on Brain

  • Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.
    - Miguel Nicolelis
  • With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
    - Miguel Nicolelis
  • The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
    - Miguel Nicolelis
  • It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.
    - Miguel Nicolelis
  • There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson's disease.
    - Miguel Nicolelis
  • In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.
    - Miguel Nicolelis
  • Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.
    - Miguel Nicolelis