Development of the artificial body control system using the optical neurocommunicator

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K21627
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Brain biometrics; Medical systems
• Research Institution: Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
• Principal Investigator: KOBAYASHI Takuma 国立研究開発法人理化学研究所, 脳科学総合研究センター, 研究員 (80582288)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 脳内埋植型デバイス / Optic Neurocommunicator / 三次元培養 / 光プローブ / artificial body / 脳機能光計測 / 脳機能光制御 / 光双方向神経活動伝達

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Even if it is difficult to acquire the comprehensions from the acquaintances of scientist, the neuroprosthetics for the challenged should be studied. Unfortunately there is almost no neurological engineering department in our country, and the interdisciplinary neuroprosthetics is unfamiliar academic disciplinesa. However, since 2009, research on the optical neurocommunicator has been intermittently continued with the sympathetic and visionary supporters and the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI). Thanks to that, the several types of wearable instruments for neuroimaging and optogenetics were newly invented, and the artificial body control system was structured using the optical neurocommunicator which applied to the brain less-invasively in combination. And actually, that system was demonstrated to work by using the animals basically. Although there is room for improvement unsurprisingly, the technology will contribute as a new prosthetic method for human in the future.

Free Research Field

脳科学