Brain-Implanted Device Restores Sense of Touch in Man with Spinal Cord Injury

This is the first time such a device has been used to restore a sense of touch in a person with a spinal cord injury, the researchers said. The patient, although paralyzed by his injury, could experience the sensations through a mind-controlled robotic arm connected directly to his brain, the researchers said. In the winter of 2004, he was driving at night in rainy weather and was in a car crash that snapped his neck and injured his spinal cord.