With a loss of movement in limbs, even performing everyday tasks like picking up a glass of water could become near impossible. In spinal injuries, signals from the brain are inhibited or even terminated before they reach the limbs. Here’s how it functions: the brain–spine interface reestablishes communication between the motor cortex and spinal nerves to restore communication between the brain and the limbs. The mechanism decodes brain signals in real-time, then transmits them wirelessly to the implant in the spinal cord, effectively creating a neural-electrical bridge between the monkey’s brain and its leg tendons. Watch Grégoire Courtine explain the brain-spine interface:

Source: dna November 10, 2016 11:11 UTC