“Neurotechnology: Fixing broken brains by decoding cortex”

Dr. Donoghue’s lab works in both basic and applied neuroscience, studying network computation on one end, and restoring lost motor cortical function on the other end.

His work has culminated in BrainGate, a human brain-computer interface that senses neural activity in the motor cortex and decodes it to instruct a robotic arm or a cursor, reconnecting the cortex to lost action in the case of spinal cord injury or paralyzing disease such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.