Chinese brain implant helps paralyzed man recover motor skills

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Chinese brain implant helps paralyzed man recover motor skills

STORY: Chinese brain implant helps paralyzed man recover motor skills SHOOTING TIME: file 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. The brain surgeons from

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