Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain
ग्रेग गज: आफ्नो मस्तिष्कमार्फत कसरी अरुको हात नियन्त्रण गर्ने
TED Fellow Greg Gage helps kids investigate the neuroscience in their own backyards. Full bio
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are fascinated by the brain,
आकर्षित छन्,
about how the brain works
गर्न सक्दैनन्
neuroscience in schools.
मस्तिष्कविज्ञान सिकाउदैनौं ।
why is that the equipment
universities and large institutions.
मात्रै संचालन गर्न सकिन्छ ।
to access the brain,
as a graduate student
अध्ययनपछि बल्ल
to get access to these tools.
चलाउन पाइन्छ ।
because one out of five of us,
हामी मध्ये ५ मा १ जना
will have a neurological disorder.
मस्तिष्कमा गडबड भैसक्छ।
for these diseases.
what we should be doing
समयमा
in the eduction process
so that in the future,
ताकी भविष्यमा
becoming a brain scientist.
विचार गरुन्
my lab mate Tim Marzullo and myself,
टीम मार्जुलोले विचार गर्यौं -
this complex equipment that we have
जटिल उपकरणलाइ
enough and affordable enough
बनाउन सक्यौं भने,
or a high school student,
वास्तविक रुपमा
in the discovery of neuroscience.
सहभागी हुन सक्छन्,
a company called Backyard Brains
कम्पनी स्थापना गर्यौं
and I brought some here tonight,
निर्माण गर्छौं,
(Applause)
(ताली)
to record from your brain.
रेकर्ड गर्दै छु
your arm for science,
हात बढाउनुहोस
I'm putting electrodes on your arm,
brain, what am I doing with your arm?
जस्तो लाग्दैछ होला, होइन ?
inside your brain right now.
८० बिलियन न्युरोन् छन्
back and forth, and chemical messages.
प्रबाह भइरहेको छ
right here in your motor cortex
मोटर कोर्टेक्स नजिकका
when you move your arm like this.
across your corpus callosum,
to your lower motor neuron
is going to be picked up
is going to be doing.
what your brain sounds like?
So go ahead and squeeze your hand.
हात खुम्च्याउनुहोस् त
happening right here.
that are happening
out to her muscle right here,
that's happening here.
and try to see one of them.
बिशेसरुपमा हेर्न सकिन्छ
happening right now inside of your brain.
यस यन्त्रले देखाउंदैछ
but let's get it better.
down to your muscles right here.
संदेश प्रबाह गर्छ
a signal down to your muscles.
a nerve that's right here
these three fingers,
that we might be able
त्यो नसालाइ
पठाइरहेको
going out to your hand
पठाउन सक्छौं,
when your brain tells your hand to move.
your free will
हरण गर्ने छौं,
any control over this hand.
and we're going to plug it in
to squeeze your hand again.
over here so that you get the --
a little bit weird at first,
(Laughter)
(हाँसो)
and someone else becomes your agent,
अरु कोहि तपाईंको माध्यम बन्छ
so go ahead and give it a squeeze.
त्यसैले हात खुम्च्याउन सक्नुहुन्छ
and turn your hand.
खुम्च्याउनुहोस त
MG: Nope.
मिगेल: अहँ, केहि भएन
MG: A little bit.
मिगेल: अलि अलि भयो
and it's also controlling his arm,
साथ साथमा उसको पनि
if I took over my control of your hand?
के हुन्छ
such a good sport.
all across the world --
the neuro-revolution.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Greg Gage - NeuroscientistTED Fellow Greg Gage helps kids investigate the neuroscience in their own backyards.
Why you should listen
As half of Backyard Brains, neuroscientist and engineer Greg Gage builds the SpikerBox -- a small rig that helps kids understand the electrical impulses that control the nervous system. He's passionate about helping students understand (viscerally) how our brains and our neurons work, because, as he said onstage at TED2012, we still know very little about how the brain works -- and we need to start inspiring kids early to want to know more.
Before becoming a neuroscientist, Gage worked as an electrical engineer making touchscreens. As he told the Huffington Post: "Scientific equipment in general is pretty expensive, but it's silly because before [getting my PhD in neuroscience] I was an electrical engineer, and you could see that you could make it yourself. So we started as a way to have fun, to show off to our colleagues, but we were also going into classrooms around that time and we thought, wouldn't it be cool if you could bring these gadgets with us so the stuff we were doing in advanced Ph.D. programs in neuroscience, you could also do in fifth grade?" His latest pieces of gear: the Roboroach, a cockroach fitted with an electric backpack that makes it turn on command, and BYB SmartScope, a smartphone-powered microscope.
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