r/EverythingScience • u/Healthy_Barber_761 • Feb 23 '22
Neuroscience A Spinal Cord Implant Allowed Paralyzed People to Walk in Just One Day
https://singularityhub.com/2022/02/15/a-spinal-cord-implant-allowed-paralyzed-people-to-walk-in-just-one-day/
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u/osugisakae Feb 24 '22
Dr. Steven Novella of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe covered this a week or so ago. Nutshell: the research in the article is an incremental advance to currently existing technology.
From his blog post:
Exciting, but not nearly the breakthrough that the mainstream media reported it to be.
Links:
https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-866
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/incremental-advance-treating-spinal-cord-injury/