New 'mind-reading' device allows stroke survivor to spell out entire sentences again
This remarkable new advance paves the way for technology to help people with severe paralysis communicate naturally and rapidly again.
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This remarkable new advance paves the way for technology to help people with severe paralysis communicate naturally and rapidly again.
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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. They're calling it a neuroprosthesis, and while it's only one patient for now, the team at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) hopes their device may help other paralyzed people communicate. "To our knowledge, this is the first successful demonst...