{"id":126361,"date":"2025-04-03T03:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126361"},"modified":"2025-04-03T03:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:17:05","slug":"elon-musks-neuralink-seeks-patients-globally-to-try-its-brain-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126361","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink seeks patients globally to try its brain chips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsElon Musk\u2019s computer-chip brain implant company Neuralink is seeking patients all around the world to trial its device that allows one\u2019s thoughts to control a computer.
\nNeuralink is looking for people with quadriplegia \u2014 those who are not able to use their arms or legs \u2014 to sign up for a clinical trial, it said in an April 2 post on X, the social media platform also owned by Musk.
\nAs of January, Neuralink has said three patients have been implanted with a device. All are quadriplegic and are testing a small brain implant that tracks neural activity to control a computer or smartphone as part of a clinical trial called the Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface, or PRIME study.
\nNeuralink is one of several companies and academic institutions developing and testing so-called brain-computer interfaces, which vary from small wire-like implants as part of clinical trials to non-invasive devices akin to a hat.
\nSource: NeuralinkNeuralink\u2019s website says its clinical PRIME study, which will take around six years, is looking for quadriplegics with spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to use their thoughts to control a computer.
\nMusk also heads vehicle maker Tesla and is the Trump administration’s government cost-cutting czar. He has said he wants Neuralink to move beyond just allowing humans to operate computers by thinking and wants to help \u201cgive people superpowers.\u201d
\nFirst Neuralink patient reports no side effects after a year
\nNoland Arbaugh, Neuralink’s first patient, said in a March 28 X post that he\u2019s \u201chad no negative side effects, neither physically nor psychologically\u201d in the year after receiving his brain implant.\u00a0
\nArbaugh, a quadriplegic, demoed his brain chip about a year ago by controlling a computer cursor to play chess and surf the web.
\nArbaugh said he\u2019s now using his brain chip \u201cfor all sorts of things\u201d and guessed he\u2019s using it for over 10 hours a day.
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\nHe said the company\u2019s researchers were \u201cfiguring out how to control a wheelchair with the implant,\u201d which he added he won\u2019t use \u201cunless it\u2019s next to perfect. I think it benefits everyone if I don\u2019t lose control and drive into traffic.\u201d
\nArbaugh said he had found work as a traveling keynote speaker, which he attributed to Neuralink\u2019s implant, which helped him write, research, and communicate online.
\n\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how much hope and purpose this technology has provided me,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s only a matter of time before the implant is in dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of people.\u201d
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