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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious cause of disability in the United States. Diagnosed in more than 270,000 military servicemembers since 2000 and affecting an estimated 1.7 million U.S. civilians each year1, TBI frequently results in an impaired ability to retrieve memories formed prior to injury and a reduced capacity to form or retain new memories following injury. Despite the scale of the problem, few effective therapies currently exist to mitigate the long-term consequences of TBI on memory. Through the Restoring Active Memory (RAM) program, DARPA seeks to accelerate the development of technology able to address this public health challenge and help servicemembers and others overcome memory deficits by developing new neuroprosthetics to bridge gaps in the injured brain.
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When DARPA launched the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program in 2006, the state of upper-limb prosthetic technology was far behind lower-limb technology. Advancing upper-limb technology was judged to be a more difficult medical and engineering challenge.
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Program Manager
Dr. Doug Weber joined DARPA as a Program Manager in 2013.
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Office Director
Dr. Justin Sanchez was named Director of BTO in May 2016, after serving as Acting Deputy Director of BTO since December 2015.
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03/08/2016
The Histology
for Interface Stability over Time (HIST) effort identifies leading mechanisms
of interface degradation and failure. HIST teams are also developing new
invasive and non-invasive histology methods to assess
neural-recording-interface status and performance, accurate predictive models
of interface performance, and methods to reduce the time required to assess and
develop robust interfaces.
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