Brain Implant Allows Partially Paralyzed Monkeys To Walk Again Techworm
The team led by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) achieved this by treating the monkeys with a neuroprosthetic interface that acted as a wireless bridge between the brain and spine. The device does this by decoding brain activity related to walking and then sending those signals to the spinal cord through electrodes that stimulate neural pathways and activate leg muscles. This method allowed researchers to use a partial spinal cord lesion to successfully treat two rhesus monkeys each with one leg paralyzed by a partial spinal cord lesion....