ELON MUSK's BRAIN invention to (hopefully) restore movement to those who are paralyzed!

[PDWarrior1900]

"The first human patient will soon receive a Neuralink device. This ultimately has the potential to restore full body movement," Musk posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. "

"In a blog post, Neuralink announced that recruitment is open for the first-in-human clinical trial of its wireless brain-computer interface (BCI). The Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface (PRIME) study will evaluate the safety of Neuralink's implant (N1) and surgical robot (R1) and assess whether the device can help paralyzed people control external devices with their thoughts."

"During the study, the R1 Robot will be used to surgically place the N1 Implant’s ultra-fine and flexible threads in a region of the brain that controls movement intention," Neuralink said. "Once in place, the N1 Implant is cosmetically invisible and is intended to record and transmit brain signals wirelessly to an app that decodes movement intention. The initial goal of our BCI is to grant people the ability to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone."

foxbusiness.com/technology/...

[MBAnderson]

PD, Would you get in line for this?

[Gymsack in reply to MBAnderson]

Difficult to believe the technological world has reached that point , but if you are completely paralyzed already , then what is the risk. Death? I would take it.

Any body have Elon Musks email address .

I Think a note to him pointing out how many people have PD and the opportunities might get through to him. Worth a try, nothing ventured, nothing gained

[PDWarrior1900 in reply to Gymsack]

he already knows... news about his invention came out months ago and PD and other neuro diseases were mentioned as "targets" for his new medical implant

[Gymsack in reply to PDWarrior1900]

I kind of half expect him to reply to this. 😜

[Despe in reply to PDWarrior1900]

Is that what it's going to be, a medical implant?😉

[PDWarrior1900]

if i was totally paralyzed?

Absolutely!!!

[Gioc]

Be careful with the terms here, "the brain that controls the intention of movement" is not the "thought" in general.

"... place the N1 Implant’s ultra-fine and flexible threads in a region of the brain that controls the intention of movement", I don't know what application it has for PD but it's easy to imagine.

Certainly if it works it's a big advance.