PHILADELPHIA — An endovascular brain-computer interface allowed those who are paralyzed to perform computer-based activities, according to a presenter at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons annual meeting.
“[The trial] was designed to address a problem, and that is paralysis. There are 5 million people in the United States living with paralysis,” J Mocco, MD, MS, professor of neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System, said during the presentation. “With the use of our prosthesis, we can essentially transmit … a signal from the brain to the external world