Thanks. Any good links - save me the trouble of poking around the web?
Sure. Most of the neuroscience and brain mapping withing universities are partly funded by DARPA. This is for the brain-machine interface program.
May 9, 2002
MUSC To Develop Brain Stimulation Device For Military
CHARLESTON, SC -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced today that it has awarded the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) a Phase I/II contract to develop a portable brain stimulation device for use by the military to alleviate the effects of sleep deprivation on soldiers' performance. The contract, entitled Creating a Man-portable Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation System (TMS) to Improve War-fighter Performance
See: Miguel Nicolelis from Duke University, North Carolina implanted about one hundred electrodes into brains of an owl monkey and used the recorded signals to muscles to control a robot arm.