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#Neuroscientists Create rainets Effectively Link Brain Circuits of Primates with Rodents Neuroscientists at Duke university have employed successfully Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) to link the brain circuits of primates with rodents. The study published in the July 9, 2015 issue of Scientific Reports reveals the capability of the brains of these two animals to collaboratively complete simple tasks. Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PHD, co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering at the Duke university School of medicine and principal investigator for the study, along with his colleagues has developed for the first time mechanical brain networks called Brainets by connecting brains of rats and rhesus macaque monkeys through arrays implanted in the motor and somatosensory cortices of these animals. The linkage of brain circuits revealed phenomenal outcomes. It allowed the animals to exchange sensory and motor information in real time, enabling them to work on relatively complex problems together. Moreover, the animals not only brought together different abilities for solving the tasks, but also were also able to divide the work into individual sections based on the abilities of each animal. Dr. Nicolelis, stated, This is the first demonstration of a shared brain-machine interface, a paradigm that has been translated successfully over the past decades from studies in animals all the way to clinical applications. We foresee that shared BMIS will follow the same track and could soon be translated to clinical practicethe researchers propose that this discovery has the future potential of using the intuitive capacity of organic brains to support machine logic, thus facilitating the development of organic computers created by the interfacing of multiple animal brains with computers c

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