Primate Involved in First Ever Leg Paralysis Reversal Study using 'Brain Wi-Fi'
For the first time in history, instructions to move a body part are beamed using Wi-Fi with primate as the first beneficiary. A paralyzed Rhesus monkey is paralyzed due to spinal cord damage.
A group of scientist from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology did the experimental project by doing a bypass of instruction from the brain to the legs using the Wi-Fi technology, said on BBC News. They say this experimental project is ready for human use.
The electrical signal is being blocked due to the injury to the spinal cord which results for the primate not able to move its legs. The monkey's brain that controls movement was implanted with a chip. The "spike of electrical activity" is being transmitted from the brain to the computer then to the paralyzed area.
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On Seeker it emphasizes that the language we speak when talking to the brain is not with the common language we use but a series of impulses and electric neurons that transmit through the nervous system. There is already a way to manipulate this kind of language in a comparatively direct method.
In the previous years' mice was injected with magnetoelectric nanoparticles that trigger an outside electric field that makes reports. This cause to regenerate small scale electricity which creates a frequency that runs on the neural network.
Reported in The Australian, the United States researchers were able to decode that restores a paralyzed sense of touch. However, the English Neurologist Dr. Andrew Jackson said that this development has still open-loops that further research is needed.
The feasibility of such experiment, however, is being evaluated by doctors in Lausanne University Hospital. It is now, according to Dr. Jackson on how human will adopt and let its neuron interact with the technology. It still requires for any person to subject himself to a torrid rehabilitation for the technology to work correctly.
