Prosthesis | Biomedical Odyssey

Building Brain-Machine Interfaces That Are Here to Stay

April 27, 2016

In 2012, Jan Scheuermann made headlines when she took a bite of chocolate. While that sounds like a simple feat, in her case, it was extraordinary. Her brain controlled a robotic arm to take that bite — her first one unaided after almost a decade of paralysis in all four limbs. Other history-making successes with […]

Anaplastology Combines Medicine and Art to Help Patients in Need

November 23, 2015

Juan Garcia is an associate professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, a certified clinical anaplastologist and the director of the Johns Hopkins Facial Prosthetics clinic. While earning his B.S. in biology, Garcia realized that his talent for and interest in art were too strong to pass off as a mere hobby. […]

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