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Specialists from the University of California, located at Irvine, managed to put a paralyzed man on his feet, who was forced to ride a wheelchair for five years. Disabled person has become volunteer in a direct limb experiment man to his brain. The experiment ended in absolute success: to his amazement, the man began not only to walk, but also Feel your own legs.
The history and results of the study were published in American Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, “an employee of the University of California, An Do, being one of the authors of the project, said that even after many years after a person has paralysis, his the brain continues to produce signals targeting for movement with non-functioning limbs. If you equip your legs and the patient’s head with the necessary electronics, can be used again these signals are as intended.
For their experiment, Americans have developed an innovative a device that looks like an electroencephalograph. Equipment analyzes brain activity and tracks nerve impulses, necessary for the implementation of various movements.
First, the patient played a kind of video game, controlling the force thoughts with the movements of the legs of a computer character. Then the doctors hung a man on a special apparatus and allowed him to walk with crutch. After two dozen classes, the patient began to move around without help from outsiders. While he walks very slowly, however, doctors consider that in the near future their patient will cope with this task is much better, and then, perhaps, it will run.
