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Wireless Brain-Spine Connection Overcomes Paralysis in Monkey

November 10, 2016/

Monkeys with spinal cord damage that paralyzed one leg quickly regained the ability to walk with a wireless connection from the brain to the spinal cord below the injury, scientists reported Wednesday.

The achievement is yet another advance in the rapidly moving field of technological treatments for spinal cord damage.

By JAMES GORMAN

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/science/wireless-brain-spine-connection-paralysis.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

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