Deep stimulation of the brain restores patients with paralysis. The ability to walk

Researchers said that the deep stimulus of a certain area of ​​the brain has the recovery of the lower limbs the ability to move in two patients who sustained serious injuries in the spinal cord. The study published in Nature Medicine magazine said that the deep stimulation of the brain in the underground environment “strengthened the ability to walk immediately” in mice, rats and two people. This type of motivation was used to treat Parkinson disease (Parkinson) and other movement disorders and to target other parts of the brain, but it was not possible to treat spine injuries. In both patients, despite his injuries, the spinal cord was able to send some signals from the brain and to him. “After the electric pole is placed and motivated, the first patient immediately said: I feel my legs, and if we raise the motivation, she said: I feel the need to walk!” “These reactions confirmed that we targeted the right area, although it was never linked to the control of the legs in humans,” Bloch added, and she said, “Right now I realized that we were seeing an important discovery.” The other patient (54 years old) has been using a wheelchair since he had a skiing accident in 2006, and said that after a short period of treatment, he managed to walk “a few steps” and “reach things in kitchen cabinets”. The researchers said that the patients also showed a long -term improvement that continued, even when the stimulus was discontinued.