{"id":4762,"date":"2016-04-13T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2016-04-18T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T04:50:10","slug":"restoring-movement-to-a-quadriplegic-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/restoring-movement-to-a-quadriplegic-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring movement to a quadriplegic patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have successfully restored some movement to the fingers, hand, and wrist of a quadriplegic patient by using recorded signals from his motor cortex, allowing him to perform daily living activities such as pouring from a bottle and stirring the contents. Systems that work by translating neural activity into signals for robotic devices, such as robot arms, have been previously developed for human patients, however until now they were not able to restore movement in real-time in human patients. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers implanted a microelectrode array in the motor cortex of a 24-year-old male participant with quadriplegia, paralysis of the arms and legs. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers note much more work needs to be done before these devices are widely applicable.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature17435\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>April 13<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chad Bouton, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nick Annetta, Battelle Memorial Institute, Ohio, U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ali Rezai, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have successfully restored some movement to the fingers, hand, and wrist of a quadriplegic patient by using recorded signals from his motor cortex, allowing him to perform daily living activities such as pouring from a bottle and stirring the contents. Systems that work by translating neural activity into signals for robotic devices, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,200,1011],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-neurology","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1eO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}