This show is about engineering and medical developments related to bionics and pain, particularly the use of science and technology to restore function in the human body and alleviation of pain.The episodes come in two formats. The most common are long interviews with established researchers about their work and the historical context in which it happened, such as the state-of-the-art at the time and the motivation behind it. The second format is shorter interviews with the authors of recent scientific articles about their findings.In both formats, the guests will talk...
Episode on the article “ *Chronic Use of a Sensitized Bionic Hand Does Not Remap the Sense of Touch* ” ( Ortiz-Catalan et al. , Cell Reports, 2020 ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112472031528X ) ). I discuss with Prof. Sliman Bensmaia (...
Published 04/25/21
Prof. Todd Kuiken ( https://www.sralab.org/researchers/todd-kuiken-md-phd ) developed Targeted Muscle Reinnervation ( TMR ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/183371 ) ) – a surgical method to rewire the nervous system of people with amputations to better interface with prosthetic...
Published 02/26/21