Scientist reveals how one brain can control the movement in a separate body

With electrodes, the brain waves can be transferred.

A neuroscientist demonstrated in a video, released last Tuesday, how a brain can control someone else's arm.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - In the video, two volunteers were asked to go up on stage during a TED talk by neuroscientist Greg Gage. He is a TED senior fellow with the desire to make brain science accessible to everyone.

The woman volunteer had electrodes attached to her arm that measure the signals sent from her brain to make another's arm move. Electrodes were also attached to a man's arm.

The man's arm received the signals sent by the woman's brain. The audience watching the demonstration were impressed as the woman was able to control the man's arm.

Gage is not only a neuroscientist, but also an engineer and co-founder of the website, "Backyard Brains." He helps children understand the electrical impulses controlling the nervous system. He is a grad student from the University of Michigan, and often interacts with the kids during neuroscience outreach events.

Since Gage and his co-founder of "Backyard Brains" wanted to demonstrate to children how the nervous system works, they design kits out of off-the-shelf electronics. It was during grad school when Gage and his lab mate Tim Marzullo came up with "Backyard Brains."

The good news is, all the kits they have come with experiments and lesson plans to make teaching and learning neuroscience a fun and easy experience for children. Gage and Marzullo are on a mission to produce advanced neuroscience experiments and equipment, but they are want them to be affordable and easily available to all. For Gage, if he can make a change in education processes from the past, he would have students learn about neuroscience and participate in its discovery.

Gage explained during the TED talk that one out of five people or 20 percent of the population, has an untreatable neurological disorder. With the discovery of neuroscience, the illness may be detected and treated early.

In graduate labs, the electrical study of living nervous tissue or electrophysiology, is being taught. Even fifth grade students study neuroscience in the classroom today.

During Gage's demo in his TED talk, he used an inexpensive and simple kit. The technique worked and you have to see it to believe it. He ends his talk telling the audience that electrophysiology is happening all around the world, and the people interested in learning neuroscience will bring on the neuro-revolution.

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