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Nature Neuroscience 11, 1245 - 1246 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn1108-1245

Cortical-based neuroprosthetics: when less may be more

Stephen H Scott1

  1. The author is at the Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. e-mail: steve@biomed.queensu.ca

Combined population activity is usually used to control neural prosthetics. A recent study in Nature finds that a single primary motor cortex neuron can control the artificial stimulation of paralyzed wrist muscles to move a computer cursor.

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