- One of my concerns is the limitations available for people with disabilities, especially those with spinal cord injury and I want to help them.
- My idea is to send brain orders to the organs via "WiFi", for this purpose a transmitter chip is embedded in the brain and a receiver chip also after the spinal cord injured.
- Is it possible? What problems will there be for the implementation of this idea?
Hi..quiet an interesting thought process..
following spinal cord injury / section / hemisection..signal transmission to organs and to the brain are disrupted..brain does not receive info from the regions distal to injury and so can also not control organs distal to the injury..
activities in the organs distal to the injury are controlled by afferent info to brain which sends an efferent organised plan for the functioning of the organ and subsequently receives a feedback regarding the function executed .. this helps for corrective / modulated signals from the brain in response to the feedback ..essential for the better / expected outcome / function of the organ..
may be it is required to refine the thought process with this back ground..it is not sending one command..instead it is constant exchange of info..helping to refine the function..
Hi
Lets count the main problems you will face:
1) you need to find which brain commands are related to which movement and how to read them and transmit them in a very short time (which part to move, and the exact timing is crucial for movement)
2) you need to find which counter transmission relates to what sensory information and how to find which is which and then respond to them in a very short time (a person falling is not an option in your case)
3) you need to find a reliable way to place the device to "read" the above which will not degenerate with time (nerve to electronics connection is not a simple matter)
4) you will need to secure the system so it won't be interrupted by other WiFi systems around
I think those four are hard enough, but they are not the least...
There are other ways to help such people, I believe that the approach I have taken is a very promising one.
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