“Double Neural Bypass” Restoring Movement

for the First Time in Quadriplegic Patient

ABSTRACT
 Researchers have managed to restore movement and
sensation in a man who has been paralyzed, using
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and brain implants.
 Researchers at Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes
for Medical Research have successfully used double
neural bypass technology to restore movement and
sensation.

INTRODUCTION
 Subject used – Keith Thomas, was paralyzed
following a diving accident.
 Quadriplegia is a pattern of paralysis — which is
when you can’t deliberately control or move your
muscles — that can affect a person from the neck
down.
 Double Neural Bypass technology to restore
movement and sensation is an innovative procedure
involved implanting microchips into the patient's brain
and developing artificial intelligence algorithms to
reconnect his brain with his body and spinal cord.

METHODOLOGY
  This is the first time the brain, body and spinal cord
have been linked together electronically in a paralyzed
human to restore lasting movement and sensation by
using brain implants.
 The pioneering technology forms an electronic bridge
that allows information to flow between the paralyzed
body and brain.

WORKING: Thought Driven Therapy

RESULT
 His arm strength was more than doubled since
enrolling in the study and he is beginning to
experience new sensations in his forearm and wrist,
even when the system is off.

ADVANTAGES
 Overcame the limitations of Single Neural Bypass, of
being hooked up to the computer for movement.

DISADVANTAGES
 The implants may also cause scarring around their
implantation site which could lead to other health
problems.
 It’s more on the costlier side.

CONCLUSION
 Using novel brain-computer interfaces, researchers
developed techniques, to bypass injuries, of the
nervous system. So that, people living with paralysis
can regain sensation and use their limbs.

REFERENCES
 https://feinstein.northwell.edu/
 https://www.timesnownews.com/
 https://www.indiatoday.in/