Bionic implant the size of a matchstick could help paralyzed people ‘walk with the power of thought’

By rw-admin | February 9, 2016 | Comments Off on Bionic implant the size of a matchstick could help paralyzed people ‘walk with the power of thought’
The team is hoping to test the matchstick-sized stent electrode, or "stentrode," in a group of paralyzed patients with spinal cord injuries in 2017.

The team is hoping to test the matchstick-sized stent electrode, or “stentrode,” in a group of paralyzed patients with spinal cord injuries in 2017. The device is inserted via a blood vessel and is deposited in a blood vessel next to the motor cortex – the part of the brain that generates signals that control…

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