Elon Musk nerve neurotrans

Two Canadian patients with spinal cord injuries received Neuralink, which allowed them to control the computer with their ideas.

It is part of the first clinical trial outside the United States to test the integrity and effectiveness of the ELON Musk wireless brain slice, which he presented to the public in 2020, and was first planted in a paralyzed American in 2024.

Canadian men, both of whom are about 30 years old – one from Ontario, and the other from Alberta – have limited ability or no ability to use their hands.

Dr. Andres Luzano, a neurosurgeon in the university health network that led the surgical team at the Western Toronto Hospital, said patients can transfer the computer index almost immediately after surgery. He said they were able to leave the hospital this morning after their procedures on August 27 and September 3.

Luzano explained that the electrodes were planted in the brain area of ​​each patient to harness nerve cell signals and translate these signals into procedures on an external device, and the need to move physically.

He said: “The first patient was able to control the index by just thinking within minutes. It is very fast. Refusion signals and artificial intelligence read the signals and then translated them into a movement on the indicator.”

“They think about it and happen.”

Creative expectations

The BCI is not exclusive for Neuralink, and manages other companies such as Synchron New-York, their clinical trials.

Barry Monroe, chief development official at the Canadian National Research Organization, said that the promise of this technology is encouraging, but expectations must be reduced.

Monroe, who had been a quadruple since a diving accident 38 years ago, said he devoted his life to spinal cord injury research and helped employ in the American Neuralink experience.

The first person who publicly obtained the device said last year that he started slipping from his brain after weeks of surgery, as he re -advanced, but he settled since then and that he was still worth it.

Monroe says that he has witnessed “wrong hope” over and over in this field, and instead encourages “educated hope” – to learn and excited without expecting that cultivation such as this is available during the next six months.

“We are not there yet, that’s all,” he said.

Clinical experience evaluates safety and quality of life

Canadian patients will be monitored for at least a year, while allowing the clinical search team to register four other patients in the country, either paralyzed due to the injury of the spinal cord or who suffer from atrophic side sclerosis (Als).

The clinical experience team will be evaluated if the technology is safe and if it adds value to the quality of the patient’s life. The side effects that they are looking for seizures, infections, or strokes can include.

In the coming weeks and months, patients will learn to write on a computer without touching a keyboard. Indeed, they are able to play video games.

“It is really an initial step to see if this should be limited and put it in a largest number of population,” Lozano
He said.

“The device is now an indicator, but in the future you can drive a car, you can drive the wheelchair, you can drive a robot.”