Brain implants restore cognitive abilities wiped out by traumatic brain injuries
(LIBERTY UNYIELDING) – Twenty years ago, Gina Arata was in her final semester of college, planning to apply to law school, when she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. It wiped out much of her mental ability, destroying her dream of being a lawyer. She ended up in a job sorting mail, and struggled to handle that job.
“I couldn’t remember anything,” said Arata. “My left foot dropped, so I’d trip over things all the time. I was always in car accidents. And I had no filter – I’d get pissed off really easily.”
But then, she learned about research being conducted at Stanford University, and was accepted as a participant in a study. In 2018, physicians surgically implanted a device deep inside her brain, then carefully calibrated the device’s electrical activity to stimulate the networks the injury had smothered. As Stanford notes, “She noticed the difference immediately: When she was asked to list items in the produce aisle of a grocery store, she could rattle off fruits and vegetables. Then a researcher turned the device off, and she couldn’t name any.”
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