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March 3, 2025
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Jon Hamilton | NPR
In 2014, engineering professor Chad Bouton got a lesson on the importance of touch.
Bouton, an engineer at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research on Long Island, had developed a brain-computer interface that allowed a man living with paralysis to control one hand.
“He was trying to pick something up and said, ‘You know, Chad, I can’t feel this object,'” Bouton says. “At that moment we realized, wow, that’s what we need to work on next.”
More than a decade later, Bouton’s team at Feinstein, a part of Northwell Health, is testing a system that can restore both movement and sensation in a paralyzed hand. It also is producing benefits that persist even when the user is no longer connected…
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