Intelligent Neuroprosthetics Offer Hope for Motor Disease Patients.

Researchers at the University of Montreal have demonstrated the possibility of autonomously optimizing the stimulation parameters of prostheses implanted in the brains of animals, without human intervention, using autonomous learning algorithms. This advance may prove to be beneficial for those with spinal cord injury and diseases that affect movement, such as Parkinson's disease. The researchers combined expertise in neuroscience and artificial intelligence to develop the algorithmic framework capable of handling optimization in large parameter spaces.