How the Clinical Trial, Braingate, Transforms the Human Brain Into A Computer Interface and What That Means for Quadriplegics, With Dr. AjiBoye

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Imagine having a spinal cord injury that prevents you from performing everyday tasks without assistance. Though your brain is still intact, you can’t hold and sip your morning coffee or even grip your bagel and raise it to your mouth.
Now imagine, after living that way for nine years, a computer chip in your brain makes it possible to feed yourself again.
That is exactly what the clinical trial, Braingate has achieved. Tune in to hear Dr. AjiBoye explain. Here’s a sampling of what you’ll discover:

* What “functional electrical stimulation” is and how it’s being used to bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement.
* How algorithms are learning to read people’s minds.
* The true-life story of the quadriplegic man who fed himself mashed potatoes after being paralyzed for nine years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:08.0	Future Technologies Boys To Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here, means these technologies are now here and
0:16.7	starting to be used.
0:18.2	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.7	This is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:28.5	Today I've got interesting guests, Dr. BOLU,
0:31.6	AJ Boye. We're going to be talking about some interesting technology that he's working on.
0:36.1	Dr, how you doing?
0:37.1	I'm doing well, thank you. How are you?
0:39.1	Good, except for my voice, doing good.
0:41.8	Yeah. So if you wouldn't mind, tell listeners,
0:45.0	what is it that you're working on?
0:46.4	So I don't want to describe it the wrong way.
0:49.4	Sure, so I can give you the short version and then we can talk about the long version later, but the short version is essentially that we are working with people who have high-level spinal cord injury resulting in paralysis, actually resulting in
1:05.4	tetraplegia, so paralysis of all four limbs and we are using implantable
1:11.1	technology so technology which is implanted inside the brain and technology
1:15.3	which is implanted inside the paralyzed muscles.
1:18.0	And combining that technology to give a single person right now with paralysis the ability to control movements of
1:26.8	his arm and hand just by thinking. That's amazing, okay? So this requires an implant both in a certain area of the brain and in the muscle or in the spinal cord?
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