Brain implant device allows paralyzed individual to communicate using his thoughts

Researchers at the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva Switzerland, in collaboration with the University of Tübingen in Germany, state that one of their patients, a man who is paralyzed by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, was able to communicate with them by registering and measuring his brain’s neural signals with two 64 microelectrode arrays implanted in the supplementary and primary motor cortex areas of his brain…

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