22/05/2015
Brain diseases are one of the biggest challenges of the modern world Photo: Glow Images / East News
He can not move or arms, or legs, because he is paralyzed. Despite this, the American patient when AIE wants a drink, he gives himself a drink. This is made possible breakthrough technologies.
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How to drink his own thoughts – IAR, Rafal Motriuk
The 32-year-old patient is paralyzed from the neck down for twelve years. Doctors at the California Institute of Technology implanted in his brain – the posterior parietal cortex – a special electrode. Thanks to read not only specific commands, but the intentions of the patient.
The new method enabled him to precisely control the mechanical arm. The man handed his mouth drink bottle, sipped through a tube and put the bottle on the table, much to the delight of the science team. – I hope that people like me would ever have such opportunities and regain partial independence – says the patient.
Publish the results of the weekly magazine “Science”.
(IAR)
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