{"id":10415,"date":"2016-12-07T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fescenter.org\/?p=10415"},"modified":"2024-01-27T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:07:09","slug":"a-paralyzed-monkey-can-walk-again-thanks-to-a-wireless-brain-computer-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/2016\/12\/07\/a-paralyzed-monkey-can-walk-again-thanks-to-a-wireless-brain-computer-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"A paralyzed monkey can walk again, thanks to a wireless &#8216;brain-computer&#8217; interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report in Nature gives hopeful news about how we could recover from paralyzing spinal cord injuries in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers describe a rhesus monkey regaining the use of its leg just six days after a paralyzing injury. The key is a wireless \u201cbrain-computer\u201d interface, connecting an implant in the monkey\u2019s brain to an electrical stimulator on its spine. By translating the monkey\u2019s movement-related brain signals into electrical pulses on its spine, the technology helps the brain give the leg instructions to move \u2014 bypassing the injured part of the spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2016-12-03\/paralyzed-monkey-can-walk-again-thanks-wireless-brain-computer-interface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full story&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report in Nature gives hopeful news about how we could recover from paralyzing spinal cord injuries in the future. Researchers describe a rhesus monkey regaining the use of its leg just six days after a paralyzing injury. The key is a wireless \u201cbrain-computer\u201d interface, connecting an implant in the monkey\u2019s brain to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neural-interface","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28264,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions\/28264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}