Audio long read: The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch
Nature Podcast
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🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) implanted in the brains of people who are paralysed are allowing them to control prosthetics that are restoring a range of skills.
Although the field is relatively young, researchers are making rapid advances in the abilities that these implants can restore. In the past few years, commercial interest in BCIs has soared, but many hurdles remain before these implants can be brought to market.
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| 1:04.4 | This is an audio long read from nature. |
| 1:07.1 | In this episode, the brain reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch. |
| 1:13.9 | Written by Liam Drew and read by me, Benjamin Thompson. |
| 1:19.6 | James Johnson hopes to drive a car again one day. |
| 1:23.3 | If he does, he would do it using only his thoughts. |
| 1:27.2 | In March 2017, Johnson broke his neck in a go-karting accident, |
| 1:31.7 | leaving him almost completely paralysed below the shoulders. |
| 1:35.6 | He understood his new reality better than most. |
| 1:39.4 | For decades, he'd been a carer for people with paralysis. |
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