{"id":168880,"date":"2023-08-02T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/for-the-first-time-researchers-restore-feeling-and-lasting-movement-in-man-living-with-quadriplegia"},"modified":"2023-08-02T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:22:25","slug":"for-the-first-time-researchers-restore-feeling-and-lasting-movement-in-man-living-with-quadriplegia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/for-the-first-time-researchers-restore-feeling-and-lasting-movement-in-man-living-with-quadriplegia","title":{"rendered":"For the first time researchers restore feeling and lasting movement in man living with quadriplegia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HSnBy2qR4Ss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, bioelectronic medicine researchers, engineers and surgeons at Northwell Health\u2019s The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have successfully implanted microchips into the brain of a man living with paralysis, and have developed artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to re-link his brain to his body and spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p>This double neural bypass forms an electronic bridge that allows information to flow once again between the man\u2019s paralyzed body and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> to restore movement and sensations in his hand with lasting gains in his arm and wrist outside of the laboratory. The research team unveiled the trial participant\u2019s groundbreaking progress four months after a 15-hour open-brain surgery that took place on March 9 at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time the brain, body and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/spinal+cord\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spinal cord<\/a> have been linked together electronically in a paralyzed human to restore lasting movement and sensation,\u201d said Chad Bouton, professor in the Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine at the Feinstein Institutes, vice president of advanced engineering at Northwell Health, developer of the technology and principal investigator of the clinical trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, bioelectronic medicine researchers, engineers and surgeons at Northwell Health\u2019s The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have successfully implanted microchips into the brain of a man living with paralysis, and have developed artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to re-link his brain to his body and spinal cord. This double neural bypass forms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}