Youth Apps

According to Synchron, it is the first American company to implant a human-brain-computer interface. was performed at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, NY. image courtesy Synchron In the United States, brain-computer interfaces have become a feasible (though restricted) reality. Synchron claims to be the first company in the country to implant a BCI in a human patient. The historic treatment was carried out by clinical investigators at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, NY, supervised by Shahram Majidi, MD, an assistant professor of neurosurgery, neurology, and radiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The operation was carried out using a less invasive, endovascular method in the angiography suite. The company's Stentrode was implanted in the motor cortex of a participant in Synchron's COMMAND experiment, which aims to assess the effectiveness and safety of BCIs for giving hands-free device control to persons with severe paralysis. In an ideal world, t...