Here we go published in nature publication & just imagine in 5 years 😳

from - dnyuz.com/2023/05/25/paralysed-man-walks-with-device-that-connects-brain-spinal-cord

“A previously paralysed man has been able to walk again – just by thinking about it – thanks to a new device that connects his brain and his spinal cord, bypassing an injury he suffered 12 years ago.

A cycling accident in 2011 left Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, with paralysed legs and partially paralysed arms, after his spinal cord was damaged in his neck.

But today he is back on his feet, walking with the use of crutches thanks to a “digital bridge” between his brain and the nerves below his injury.

“Within five to 10 minutes I could control my hips, like the brain implant picked up what I was doing with my hips so that was the best outcome I think for everyone,” Oskam said in a statement.

When he thinks about walking, electrodes on his brain relay the message to electrodes on his spinal cord, stimulating the spine.

“Now I can just do what I want. When I decide to make a step the stimulation will kick in as soon as I think about it,” Oskam said. “This simple pleasure represents a significant change in my life.”

Oskam took part in a trial in 2018 that showed, with intensive training, technology to stimulate the spine with electrical impulses could help people with spinal cord injuries to walk again, although, after three years, his improvements had plateaued.

His original spinal implant has been paired with two disc-shaped implants inserted into his skull so that two 64-electrode grids rest against the membrane covering the brain.

Now when Oskam thinks about walking, the skull implants detect electrical activity in the cortex, the outer layer of the brain.

“To walk, the brain must send a command to the region of the spinal cord responsible for the control of movements. When it’s a spinal cord injury this communication is interrupted,” said Professor Gregoire Courtine, a neuroscientist at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

“Our idea was to re-establish this communication with a digital bridge, an electronic communication between the brain and the region of the spinal cord that is still intact and can control the leg movement,” Courtine said.

This signal is wirelessly transmitted and decoded by a computer that Oskam wears in a backpack, which then transmits the information to the spinal pulse generator.

“So when everything is installed, the patient has first to learn how to work with his brain signals and we also have to learn how to correlate these signals to the spinal cord stimulation. But this is pretty short. In a few sessions, everything is linked and the patient starts training,” said Professor Jocelyne Bloch, a neurosurgeon at EPFL.”

ANTICHRIST IS COMING

The future will be android.

I wonder if this could apply to my erectile dysfunction.

On another note, these monkeys are going to summon hell. Lil Ceaz going to get on that horse & handle us for this. i’m gonna be the first to be traitor to my species. i’m not trying to be scalped by the upset evolved primates

i’m not trying to get my skull made into a percussive drum or a coffee mug.

i better start practicing my equestrian skills

He’s an unforgiving leader, that’s for sure. i can probably get a ration of brown sugar pop tart, water canteen and some old beyond meat burgers 🍔. that’s the revolution for you.

😒

wtf

This is great

I've always wondered what consciously thinking about moving your body in order to do it must feel like

Elon bad grrr

This is amazing

Wonder if they'll use stem cells to repair the tissue

This is rly dope but based on the article it's limited by how much remaining functional tissue there is, which means it might not work as well for every situation

That's Thanos

For better and worse

It's just bound to happen. Prosthetics are more or less a "cybernetic" enhancement for humans. As are simple things like contacts and even glasses. In time all these things that we've known as simple will be upgraded. They've been tryna do that with glasses for years with all that "smart" stuff that's been added to some glasses, and wearable tech in general.

Won't be long until we have cybernetic prosthetic arms (as an example) that will have technological advancements that will allow the arm to extend out further, grip harder, etc. Wouldn't be surprised if it exists already honestly.

They always say new medical technology and then it only ever is used on one person lmao

Bro got DLC

?

likely

Shoulda put the brain emoji after 'brain'

Really happy to see technology actually contributing something good for once