"These participants had experienced brain injury years to decades before, and it was thought that whatever recovery process was possible had already played out, so we were surprised and pleased to see how much they improved," co-author Nicholas Schiff, a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine's Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, said in a press release.
A study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine details the results of a small, phase 1 clinical trial that featured implanted electrodes within the brains of five individuals with moderate to severe brain injuries.
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