Direct control of paralyzed muscles by cortical neurons

A potential treatment for paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury is to route control signals from the brain around the injury via artificial connections. Such signals could then control electrical stimulation of muscles, thereby restoring volitional movement to paralyzed limbs1–3. In previously...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Moritz, Chet T., Perlmutter, Steve I., Fetz, Eberhard E.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2008
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159518/