There is neuralink- There is a mind reading company that may overcome it

Mark Jackson is Play the computer game with his mind. While falling in bed, three blue circles appear on a laptop screen a few feet away. One turns red: the target. Jackson controls a white circle, which needs to be directed to the goal without facing blue obstacles. The game is somewhat similar Back Man. Except for the control stick, Jackson uses his ideas to control his small white circle. To move to the left, he thinks about tightening his right grip once. To move right, consider doing this twice in a row, such as double -click.

Jackson, 65 years old and paralyzed, is good in this game. It is directed to the red circle. It turns blue and makes satisfactory pumpkin! He hit the target. In the next round, the circles change the position. He moves to the next round, and the next day, he is 14 out of 15 times. He got 100 percent in this game before. Then again, he had some practice.

Two years ago, surgeons were planted in Pittsburg Jackson with experimental The computer’s computer interfaceOr bci. Made by starting start in New York synchronousJackson’s brain signals pamper to carry out orders on the laptop and other devices. It is one of 10 people – six in the United States and four in Australia – who received Synchron’s transplant as part of early feasibility study. In addition to games, BCI allows him to send text messages, write emails, and online shopping.

Jackson’s medical epic began about five years ago, when he lived in Georgia and worked in a wholesale flower – her dreams. He thought he had a nerve disk in his neck. But in January 2021, doctors at Emory University told him that the diagnosis was more dangerous: Atrophic side sclerosis. Nervous degeneration, Als causes neurons in the brain and spinal cord over time, which leads to a gradual loss of muscle control. Jackson asked if he was interested in joining a clinical trial to test als. Jackson said it was not without reason.

Jackson in the first floor bedroom.Photo: Stephanie Strasbourg

Before diagnosing Als, Jackson had taken wooden works.Photo: Stephanie Strasbourg

But by December 2022, he lost the ability to write or raise buckets from flowers in his job and had to stop working. He moved with his brother outside Pittsburg. “It is a lot of treatment, it is a lot for treatment,” says Jackson.

The Synchron BCI experience was ongoing at the University of Pittsburg. Although the transplant will not slow the ALS’s progress of Jackson, it can bring him back some of the autonomy that he lost due to the disease. “I was immediately excited,” says Jackson.

The examination began in July 2023, and after six weeks, Jackson was in the operating room. In a procedure for about three hours, the surgeons entered first StetrodeWireing mesh tube around the size of a floor, in the jugged vein at the base of its neck. Using a catheter, they carefully tied the device across the bowl, after the ear, and at the side of the head to rest against the kinetic crust, which is part of the brain that controls voluntary movement. Then enter a small rectangular device under the Jackson bones, which treats the brain signals and brings it through infrared outside the body. These signals are collected by a grave reception device sitting on the Jackson box, then it is sent via a wire into a unit that translates them into orders. When the system is connected, a pair of green lights shines through his shirt.