When talking about brain computers or anything so bizarrely cyberpunk-y, Elon Musk-led Neuralink's first brain chip is at the forefront of it all. Back in February, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, the first human to go through this trial, underwent surgery that attached a Neuarlink implant to his brain.
Sitting with Neuralink's first brain chip implant patient
This implant helps those with Quadriplegia (a pattern of paralysis) control digital interfaces with just their thought. Well, now the company reported that a number of threads of this implant have now "retracted" from his brain.
The device consists of 1024 electrodes connected by 64 wires that are thinner than human hair. These threads monitor the patient's neural activity and then convert them into computer commands, allowing them to easily operate such devices.
However, this retraction of wires from Noland's brain has resulted in a net reduction in the number of functional electrodes. It automatically affected the patient's BPS (behavioral and psychiatric symptoms) which understandably means that the implant is not working as intended.
