{"id":17820,"date":"2015-09-25T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/watch-paralysed-man-walks-again-via-brain-waves-rerouted-to-his-legs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:36:34","slug":"watch-paralysed-man-walks-again-via-brain-waves-rerouted-to-his-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/watch-paralysed-man-walks-again-via-brain-waves-rerouted-to-his-legs","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Paralysed man walks again via brain waves rerouted to his legs"},"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\/RBAeR-Z0EHg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A paraplegic man who was paralysed for five years has walked again on his own two feet, thanks to a new kind of brain-computer interface that can reroute his thoughts to his legs, bypassing his spinal cord entirely.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous man, who experiences complete paralysis in both legs due to a severe spinal cord injury (SCI), is the first such patient to demonstrate that brain-controlled overground walking after paraplegia due to SCI is feasible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven after years of paralysis, the brain can still generate robust brain waves that can be harnessed to enable basic walking,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/news.uci.edu\/health\/uci-brain-computer-interface-enables-paralyzed-man-to-walk\/\">one of the researchers, Zoran Nenadic<\/a> from the University of California, Irvine in the US, said in a press release. \u201cWe showed that you can restore intuitive, brain-controlled walking after a complete spinal cord injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/watch-paralysed-man-walks-again-via-brain-waves-rerouted-to-his-legs\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paraplegic man who was paralysed for five years has walked again on his own two feet, thanks to a new kind of brain-computer interface that can reroute his thoughts to his legs, bypassing his spinal cord entirely. The anonymous man, who experiences complete paralysis in both legs due to a severe spinal cord injury [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64087,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions\/64087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}