Brain with a chip lets him get a grip

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3069, 2016, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Ian Burkhart was 19 years old when he broke his neck diving into shallow water on holiday. Since then, he has been unable to move either of his legs, or his arms below the elbow. Now, in a world first, he has regained control of one hand and his lingers using a mind-reading device. Ali Rezai of Ohio State University and Chad Bouton of the Feinstein Institute in Manhasset NY, and colleagues, implanted a pea-sized array of 100 electrodes in the part of Burkhart's brain responsible for controlling movement. The team found the area by scanning Burkhart's brain before surgery while he thought about moving his limbs. They pinpointed the part responsible for his right hand by electrically stimulating it during the surgery and watching to see if that hand twitched