‘Promising & exciting’: Brain implants with wireless signal let paralyzed monkeys move normally

‘At least two primates with severed spinal cords regained control of their limbs after a new wireless implant was placed in their brains. Neuroscientists now hope the brain-spine interface could help immobile human patients too.
Neuroscientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) developed a technology which allows the sending of signals from the brain to the muscles bypassing the damaged part of the spinal cord.
By adding a wireless brain implant and electrodes in the primates’ spinal cord, scientists enabled monkeys with spinal cord injuries to walk again, research published in the journal Nature showed.’
Read more: ‘Promising & exciting’: Brain implants with wireless signal let paralyzed monkeys move normally