Device Uses Brain Waves of Paralyzed Man to Help Him Communicate
July 16, 2021
In this 2017 photo provided by the University of California, San Francisco, neurosurgeon Dr. Edward Chang is reflected in a computer monitor displaying brain scans as he performs surgery at UCSF. (Barbara Ries/UCSF via AP)
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paralyzed man who cannot speak to produce words from his thoughts onto a computer.
A team led by Dr. Edward Chang at the University of California, San Francisco, carried out the experiment. The study results were published July 15 in the
New England Journal of Medicine.
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Associated Press Jul 15, 2021
Emily Wagster Pettus â staff, AP
Dudley Ford Lampton Sr. speaks Thursday, July 15, 2021, in
Meadville, Miss., at the dedication of a Mississippi historical
marker about the 1964 Ku Klux Klan kidnapping and killing of
Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. Law enforcement
officers found the bodies of the two Black teenagers in the
Mississippi River while searching for three civil rights workers
who had been kidnapped and killed by the Klan in June 1964 in a
different part of Mississippi. Lamptonâs twin brother, the late
Dunn Lampton, was the U.S. attorney who led the prosecution in 2007
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Paralyzed Man Can Send Messages from His Brain Via Implant
New technology developed by University of California San Francisco scientists has done the impossible, allowing a man who lost his ability to speak years ago to relay messages directly from his brain.
July 15, 2021 •
Shutterstock/Mopic (TNS) UC San Francisco scientists have restored communication to a paralyzed patient, using a computer to send messages straight from his brain.
The extraordinary achievement is a step toward the day when implantable prostheses could help people who have lost the ability to speak due to stroke, spinal cord injury or neurodegenerative disease. This trial tells us that, yes, we can restore words to someone who s lost speech, said UCSF neurosurgeon Dr. Edward Chang, who led the study. It s the very beginning, but it definitely tells us that this is possible.
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