Swiss scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology helped paralyzed monkeys walk again with a neuroprosthetic interface that acts as a wireless bridge between the brain and the spine, according to a study published today in Nature.
Researcher suggested that their method for regaining control of non-functioning limbs could one day lead to paralyzed people being able to walk again.
“The link between the decoding of the brain and the stimulation of the spinal cord – to make this communication exist – is completely new,” neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch, from the Lausanne University Hospital, told Reuters. “For the first time, I can imagine a completely paralyzed patient able to move their legs through this brain-spine interface.”
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