Brain Implants Help Paralyzed Monkeys Get a Grip

sciencehabit writes "Spinal cord injuries cause paralysis because they sever crucial communication links between the brain and the muscles that move limbs. A new study with monkeys demonstrates a way to re-establish those connections. By implanting electrodes in a movement control center in the brain and wiring them up to electrodes attached to muscles in the arm, researchers restored movement to monkeys with a temporarily paralyzed hand. The work is the latest promising development in the burgeoning field of neuroprosthetics."

They probably caused the monkey to be paralized

[Anonymous Coward]

I've seen video where they strap a monkey down then a machine repeatedly cracks their skull so that the scientists can study brain injury. No animal deserves what scientists do to them. If you don't agree, volunteer your family dog to have it's head cracked open, or to have half the skin burned off it's body with a blow torch to study burn treatments.

I've posted this before, but since it is so crazy

[GoodNewsJimDotCom]

So we find you can control limbs with wires. How long until we control limbs that are wireless? Can a man control 8 robotic arms and be like Dr. Octopus? Can we hook electrodes to our brain, wifi to it, and wifi to a monkey, then we can control a monkey with our minds? All Twilight Zone plot lines aside, this research is really awesome. It gives hope to everyone paralyzed that they'll be able to regain movement again. This is the stuff that money should be thrown at hand over fist.

Monkeys are not for experimets

[Anonymous Coward]

I am sick and tired of the bullshit surrounding animal cruelty, they have fear, suffer pain and eventually die from this type of experimental shit.

Its about time slashdot users complained about this shit!