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Leggett told researchers that she “became one” with her device. It helped her to control the unpredictable, violent seizures she routinely experienced, and allowed her to...
Burkhart’s device was implanted in his brain around nine years ago, a few years after he was left unable to move his limbs following a diving...
“A patient should not have to undergo forcible explantation of a device,” says Nita Farahany, a legal scholar and ethicist at Duke University in North Carolina,...
The news: Eight years ago, a patient lost her power of speech because of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, which causes progressive paralysis. Now, after volunteering...
In the new research, the Stanford team wanted to know if neurons in the motor cortex contained useful information about speech movements, too. That is, could...
Recently, a group in Spain, using an implant called the Utah array, which has 96 electrodes, found that that a blind woman could use such a...
A new experiment shows how a fully paralyzed patient was able to communicate to researchers using only his thoughts. According to the study, this was made...
Sarah, a 36-year-old woman living in California, had lived with chronic depression for five years. She felt suicidal multiple times an hour and was unable to...
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