A Brain–Spine Interface Alleviating Gait Deficits after Spinal Cord Injury in Primates

Marco Capogrosso, Tomislav Milekovic, David Borton, Fabien Wagner, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Nicolas Buse, Jerome Gandar, Quentin Barraud, David Xing, Elodie Rey, Simone Duis, Yang Jianzhong, Wai Kin D. Ko, Qin Li, Peter Detemple, Tim Denison, Silvestro Micera, Erwan Bezard, Jocelyne Bloch, and Grégoire Courtine, in Nature, Volume 539, Issue 7628, pp. 284 – 288, 10 November 2016

A recent Nature paper reports on the development and implementation of a wireless 'brain-spine interface”. The neural interface was successfully used to restore movement in the paralyzed limbs of Rhesus monkeys. Sim4Life will great benefit from this research as it led to important extensions developed by our research partner IT’IS Foundation. Read more