Chinese brain implant helps paralyzed man recover motor skills
STORY: Chinese brain implant helps paralyzed man recover motor skills
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DATELINE: Feb. 3, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:15
LOCATION: Beijing
CATEGORY: HEALTH
SHOTLIST:
1. various of surgical operation
2. various of brain-computer interface (BCI) device
STORYLINE:
A Chinese clinical team has implanted a wireless processor into the skull of a paralyzed man, significantly recovering his motor skills, including drinking a bottle of water on his own.
The team announced the outcome on Tuesday, calling it a breakthrough in the country's brain-computer interface (BCI) device, a frontier technology that may assist the rehabilitation of patients with brain diseases and injuries, and even expand the human brain's processing capability in the future.
The patient, who received the implant surgery in a clinical trial on Oct. 24, 2023, had suffered a complete spinal cord injury as a result of a car accident. He had been quadriplegic, or paralyzed in all four limbs, for 14 years.
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- Product Code
- ILEA002266616
- Registered date
- 2024/2/03 00:00:00
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