EU-backed scientists are making progress in efforts to give people with impaired motor functions more independence.
that left him completely paralyzed but conscious—a condition known as locked-in syndrome.
Once safety tests have been conducted, the plan is to implant the device in two patients with ALS. One of them is in Utrecht and the other in the Austrian city of Graz.The team will then turn its sights to software: testing an artificial-intelligence algorithm for decoding the brain signals. The team will train the system first to understand a handful of commands from the patients so that they can select letters and spell out words on screen.
In these patients, the implant is part of a system that bypasses the spinal injury to reconnect neural activity to their limbs so that they can be used again.After their brain-machine interface is initially set up, such patients have periodically to return to the laboratory and have the system recalibrated.
In May 2023, a research team involved in this trial reported having enabled a tetraplegic man from the Netherlands to stand and walk again.
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