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The item supervisor Axilum Robotics, Romuald Ginhoux provides the robotic assistant transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on September 12, 2014 in Strasbourg (France)

The phrase "Hello" has traveled from the brain of a man in India to yet another in France, in an unprecedented expertise telepathy, utilized to check a technological innovation for medication.

In truth, the mere energy of considered is not enough for the short "psychological message" of a Spanish researcher, located in the Point out of Kerala in India, look through through the 1000's of miles separating him from his French counterpart in a tiny laboratory Strasbourg.

"We have telepathy in the sense that a information has been transmitted from brain to brain, but has been assisted by a quantity of products," grins the engineer Ginhoux Romuald, the French start off-up Axilum Robotics, the robotic is allowed to transmit the message to the brain of the "receiver".

The results of this expertise of neuroscience, executed this spring, have been just lately released by the American journal PLOS one particular. It is an initiative of researchers from the Harvard College of Medication and the University of Barcelona, ​​with the assistance of the Spanish business Starlab.

The staff Starlab in India, putting on a helmet with electrodes, no considered immediately send the concept "Hello". "I could select between two feelings, 'move your hands' or 'move your feet', which make a different mind wave" Ginhoux clarifies. The computer related to your wi-fi headset interprets 1 for and 1 for one. First telepathic message between India and France

Repeat the procedure much more than a hundred occasions, the "sender" has despatched the machine a extended sequence of and 1, corresponding to a code phrase "Hello". These alerts have created so many e-mail to Strasbourg, where a equipment has resulted in the successive stimuli using magnetic waves in the visual cortex of the "receiver".

Sitting in the darkish, concentrated, the personnel has witnessed Axilum appear on your brain as a lot light-weight flashes (which resulted in one) or no flash (which translated to ). This came following an hour and a hundred and forty stimulations, the word "Hello", which could decipher as a concept in Morse code.

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The rudimentary factor of the knowledge, its heaviness and complexity have not undermined the enthusiasm of the promoters.

For one particular of the coauthors, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard health care faculty, it is a "main step" to check out the opportunities of "total or dodge" classic varieties of communication.

The authors of the review advise the probability of communicating with paralyzed, not able to communicate individuals.
The electroencefalia (EEG), which has allowed the issuer to connect with a computer, is well acknowledged. The hardest component is receiving the information right after a next brain.
"We utilized transcranial magnetic stimulation, TMS (in English), many thanks to robot created by our company which will increase precision relative to a handbook start" of this technique, suggests Ginhoux.

But "our mission is by no signifies do telepathy, but to emphasis on therapeutic applications," he says. This approach could be used to remedy extreme melancholy, for whom drugs do not work, or neuropathic pain. "At the second, the TMS is only utilized in the experimental framework in France, though it is recognized in the United States to take care of depression," claims Ginhoux.