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This remarkable new advance paves the way for technology to help people with severe paralysis communicate naturally and rapidly again.


Look back at every group of young people who 'got real'

Depression can be a frighteningly relentless condition. Luckily, researchers around the world are constantly working on new treatment options, such as a newly designed brain implant for resistant depression.

A woman with severe, treatment-resistant depression has been nearly symptom-free for a...

Neuroprosthesis: Brain implant helps man speak through a computer CNN 15 hrs ago © Courtesy Barbara Ries/UCSF Neurosurgeon Edward Chang performs brain surgery at UCSF. A brain implant has helped restore a type of speech to a man more than 15 years after a stroke robbed him of the ability to speak, researchers reported Wednesday. Theyre calling it a neuroprosthesis, and while its only one patient for now, the team at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) hopes their device may ...

Sam Whiting March 9, 2021Updated: March 11, 2021, 11:46 pm Sid Garrison in his Laurel Heights studio. Photo: Ken Probst, Ken Probst 2007 Sid Garrison, a San Francisco artist whose work appeared in galleries in the city throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, used the most basic materials available: colored pencil on paper. He was colorblind and worked in moody shades of blue and black until he suffered a stroke at age 50, in 2005. The effect on his brain caused an explosion of bright...