More than 3 million Americans live with disabling brain injuries. Using an implant that stimulates activity in key areas of the brain, they restored near-normal levels of brain function to a middle-aged woman who was severely injured in a car accident 18 years ago. Experts said the woman was a test case, and that it was far from clear whether the procedure would prompt improvements for others like her. That group includes an estimated 3 million to 5 million people, many of them veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with disabilities related to traumatic brain injuries. But I think it’s a very promising start, and there is certainly more to come in this work.”

Source: New York Times April 13, 2019 13:37 UTC