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Brain implants to help paraplegics walk

In 2012, his team made paralyzed rats walk again. I am beginning to believe that this can lead to intervention to improve patient recovery and quality of life. », cautiously slipped Grégoire Curtin at a Ted conference. A decade later, a team of neuroscientists from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Vaudois University Hospital Center (CHUV) is multiplying the proof of concept in humans. Thus, nine patients were able to restore motor functions through electrical stimulation of leg muscles.

But a new giant step has been taken with CEA researchers at the Clinatec laboratory in Grenoble. Until then, the stimulations that allowed walking or standing were controlled by pre-recorded computer programs. Review: Nature Today, researchers describe how a brain implant can decode a patient’s intention to walk…

Source: Le Figaro

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