Meerut ‘brain’ helps US man |
Five years after Ian Burkhart, now 24, met with a freak diving accident that left him completely paralysed below the chest, a US research team headed by an Indian scientist has developed technology that lets him control his limbs using just his "thoughts".The remarkable development was made by researchers at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Ohio in the US, in a clinical study in collaboration with the Ohio State University (OSU). Neurosurgeons at OSU surgically implanted a computer chip that enables messages to travel from Burkhart`s brain to his limbs, bypassing the damaged spinal cord. This has helped him regain some use of his fingers, hand and wrist.Much of the credit for this landmark medical process has gone to Meerut boy Gaurav Sharma, lead investigator on the project. Sharma`s parents still live in Meerut. Sharma, 38, also one of the inventors of the neuroprosthetic technology named NeuroLife. The study hopes for movement restoration to people worldwide living with paralysis.
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