摘要 |
<p>A device to be wholly or partly implanted into a patient's body comprises: one or more sensors to be placed at any appropriate location of said body and adapted to obtain, in use, one or more sensory and/or motor signals from the body's nervous system and /or from the pressure or temperature exerted on the body; one or more electrodes to be placed at any appropriate location of said body and adapted to feed, in use, sensory and/or motor signals to the body's nervous system; and a control means incorporating a memory of one or more predetermined signals, a comparator to compare the sensory and/or motor signals obtained with said predetermined signals, and means for producing sensory and/or motor signals to feed any appropriate location of the body's nervous system; the magnitude of these latter sensory and/or motor signals being dependent on the outcome of the comparison conducted by the comparator.</p> |