People with spinal cord injuries often lose some or all their limb function. In most patients, the nerves in their limbs work ...

A brain cap and smart algorithms may one day help paralyzed patients turn thought into movement—no surgery required.

The first patenting from Los Angeles-based Ecate LLC sees the company’s founder, Allesandro Maggi, describe a bi-directional, closed-loop spinal cord machine interface that can bridge the gap in ...

Doctors at a South Florida hospital implanted a microchip, backed by Elon Musk, into a paralyzed patient's brain as part of a clinical trial giving people the ability to control their devices with ...

A paralyzed patient who underwent electrical stimulation in his spinal cord has been able to stand up and even take a few steps, making him the first such patient to regain the ability to consciously ...

Helping the paralyzed walk sounds like a miracle — but it may soon be a reality. Over the last few years, New York’s largest hospital system, Northwell Health, has been developing bioelectric ...

The NIRS/EEG brain-computer interface system is worn by a model in Switzerland in this undated photograph released in London, Britain, January 31, 2017. Laurent Bouvier/Wyss Centre/Handout via REUTERS ...

New research suggests that paralyzed patients could regain some degree of movement — perhaps even walk again. In a study led by EPFL (Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne) and Lausanne ...

A paralyzed military veteran, identified as RJ, has become one of the first individuals in the U.S. to receive a brain chip implant from Neuralink, a company co-founded by Elon Musk. This ...