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A person who has had Parkinson’s disease for 25 years can now walk again thanks to a neuroprosthesis

 

“It is impressive to see that by electrically stimulating the spinal cord selectively, as we had done with paraplegic patients, we can correct gait disorders caused by Parkinson’s disease,” explains Bloch, the neurosurgeon who performed the implant operation on Gauthier.

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