TED Talks
Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked
TV-PG
2013 • E212 Nov 5, 2013 15mA spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new method — combining drugs, electrical stimulation and a robot — that could re-awaken the neural pathways and help the body learn again to move on its own. See how it works, as a paralyzed rat becomes able to run and navigate stairs.