Marc Gauthier, 63, the first patient with a neuroprosthetic, programmed to stimulate his spinal cord to correct walking disorders caused by Parkinson’s disease, stands up in front of Gregoire Courtine, professor of neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and Jocelyne Bloch, neurosurgeon and professor at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), during a media presentation at the NeuroRestore laboratory at the CHUV in Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2, 2023. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse