Scientists have used brain scans from one monkey to control another in an experiment which could eventually help people with paralysis.

Scientists "advance possibility of reconstructing limb movement"

Scientists in the US, say they have managed to uses the brain of one monkey, to control movement in another sedated monkey, as part of an experiment that could help paralysed people.

Injury to the central nervous system can result in paralysis.

Harvard Medical School scientists used brain scans to read thought patterns in a "master" monkey which were then used to electrically stimulate the spinal cord of the sedated money, who was holding a joy stick.

"These findings advance the future possibility of reconstructing limb movement in paralysed subjects," said the scientific team.

The findings have been published in Nature Communications. 

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