An Ohio man with quadriplegia has used his own hands to pick up a bottle, swipe a credit card and play a video game with the help of technology that routes signals from his brain to his muscles, researchers reported in a study Wednesday.
Other paralyzed people have used their brain signals to command computers and robotic arms. But this “marks the first time a person living with paralysis has regained movement by using signals recorded from within the brain,” study co-author Chad Bouton of the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research told reporters Tuesday. The study appears in this week’s Nature.
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