With BrainGate-Directed Muscle Stimulation, Man with Paralysis Moves His Arm, Hand Anew
March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017
PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 28 -- Brown University issued the following news release:
New research describes how the BrainGate brain-computer interface, combined with a functional electronic stimulation* system implanted in the arm of a Cleveland man with quadriplegia, allowed him to move his arm and hand again to eat mashed potatoes, drink water from a mug and scratch his nose.
"For somebody who's been injured eight years and couldn't move, being able to move just . . .
New research describes how the BrainGate brain-computer interface, combined with a functional electronic stimulation* system implanted in the arm of a Cleveland man with quadriplegia, allowed him to move his arm and hand again to eat mashed potatoes, drink water from a mug and scratch his nose.
"For somebody who's been injured eight years and couldn't move, being able to move just . . .