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Chase, Victor D., 1942-

Shattered nerves : how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem / Victor D. Chase.

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

xiii, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Chase explores groundbreaking developments in neural technology through extensive research and personal interviews. He details how neural implants and deep brain stimulation are used to treat paralysis, loss of basic physical functions, psychiatric illness, and memory loss.

Neural stimulation.

Myoelectric prosthesis.

Implants, Artificial.

Electric stimulation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-280) and index.

1. Learning to listen all over again -- 2. The body electric -- 3. Of frogs' legs and transistors -- 4. The grandfather of neural prostheses -- 5. Accidental pioneers -- 6. Giving a hand -- 7. Looking back at an empty wheelchair -- 8. The dirty little secret -- 9. Sound in the brain -- 10. In the eye of the beholder -- 11. Nerves of platinum and iridium -- 12. Pins and needles in the brain -- 13. From the inside out -- 14. Reaching the depth of depression -- 15. A hole in the center of the brain -- 16. The ethics -- 17. Biomimetic and superhuman.

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