Scientists Find Solutions for Paralysis

His team had used a blade to cut a slice through the animal's back, paralyzing the right leg. Neuroscientist Gregore Courtine wants to see if the monkey can walk again.

To do this, he and his colleagues had installed a recording device under the monkey's skull, touching its motor cord and installing certain flexible electrodes around the animal's spinal cord, below where it was surgically intervened. A wireless link joined two electronic devices.

The result was: A technological system that read the monkey's intentions when he moved and then broadcast it right away in the form of electrical stimulus explosions on his back.

Quickly, the monkey's right foot began to move. “Majmu was thinking, and then boom, she was standing,” recalls Courtine, a professor at the University of Luzana of Switzerland, reports “Technologyview”, the Periscopi broadcast.

In recent years lab animals and some people have checked computer courses or robotic weapons that measured their thoughts, thanks to a brain implant related to the device.

Now researchers are taking another important step towards the return of paralysis once and for all.

They connect brain reading technology directly to electrical stimulants in the body, creating what Couritin calls a “contamination nerve passage” so people's thoughts can still move their limbs./Periscopi/