How Your Brain Could Bypass a Broken Spine
Ben Sullivan
Picture a cap studded with electrodes, bristling like some strange technological creature. It looks intimidating, sure, but what researchers in Italy and Switzerland have discovered is rather beautiful. It might just restore movement to limbs that should be frozen forever.
When a spinal cord is severely damaged, the wiring goes down. But here’s the thing: the limbs still work perfectly well. The brain hasn’t forgotten its job either. The communication line between them is simply severed. A...