CNBC May 25, 2024
Key Points
– Precision Neuroscience is testing its brain-computer interface in human patients at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.
– As CNBC watched from an operating room in April, the company set a record by using four of its devices at once.
– The first application of Precision’s system will be to help patients with severe paralysis restore functions like speech and movement, according to its website.
As the lights dimmed in an operating room at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, Dr. Joshua Bederson prepared to make history.
Bederson, system chair for the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System, is no stranger to long hours in an operating room. The former...