2017
May
Public Domain by Hans Berger
| Patients who have lost the functioning of a part of their brain and suffer as a consequence of a paralysis of a hand can be helped by a new device. It can read a part of the mind that prepares the movement but whose signals would lead nowhere. This is connected to an exoskeleton, a device which takes direct control of the hand. After training a number of patients regained a limited use of their hand. |