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A major challenge is to develop fully implantable safe and chronic clinical brain implants allowing stable large-scale brain recording and real-time monitoring over very long periods of time (several years), which is mandatory to envision clinical solutions for patients in their daily life and what might be called a Brain Computer Interface (BCI).

More specifically, Grenoble-Neurotech will aim to:

Development

Develop technogical bricks for new fully implatable long-term chronic brain interfaces embeding recording and wireless communication electronics
Pave the way toward new long-lasting biocompatible materials for brain interfacing
Develop continuum / soft miniaturized robotic insertion strategies
Demonstrate the feasibility of complex chronic motor BCIs with the developed technologies for functional rehabilitation

Applications

Develop fully implantable BCI systems for motor and speech rehabilitation
Anticipate future chronic BCIs applications in cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry
Implement a reflection on the patients' expectations and the ethical and societal implementations of BCIs and neural prostheses

Ethics

Working with patient associations, the idea is to understand patients' expectations and improve their means of communication
Aims of the project : treatment or scientific advancement ?
Limits of technology and risks of dependance : In addition to regulatory issues, the limits of health technologies, associated or not with a risk of patient dependency, are also essential points to consider