For several years medical technicians worked on implants intending to compensate the damage to the nervous system after an accident or illness. Therefore, visual impairments and those of hearing, traumatic injuries to the spine or even psychiatric disorders or chronic neurodegenerative diseases will be treated.
So far there are particular problems concerning the connection of living tissue and electrical circuits. Now the NeuroCare researchers focus on so-called bio-carbon interfaces.
For more information (in German):
http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/Foerderung/foerderbeispiele,did=152532.html