Information-processing issues brain

At the forefront of engineering innovation in healthcare are ways of interfacing devices such as prosthetic limbs to the peripheral nervous systems and brain [10], These can, for example, aim to allow movement of a prosthetic limb with subconscious control of a type similar to that of natural limbs. Such developments raise issues regarding the nature and status of the delegated action, which is partly controlled by a microprocessor. Provision of non-invasive brain-computer interfaces to aid patients with degenerative conditions such as amyotrophic lateral syndrome (Tocked-in syndrome ) may require very detailed knowledge of how the brain processes information and how this is affected by the condition. 

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