{"id":124961,"date":"2021-07-14T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/device-taps-brain-waves-to-help-paralyzed-man-communicate"},"modified":"2021-07-14T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T00:22:17","slug":"device-taps-brain-waves-to-help-paralyzed-man-communicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/device-taps-brain-waves-to-help-paralyzed-man-communicate","title":{"rendered":"Device taps brain waves to help paralyzed man communicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/device-taps-brain-waves-to-help-paralyzed-man-communicate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a medical first, researchers harnessed the brain waves of a paralyzed man unable to speak \u2014 and turned what he intended to say into sentences on a computer screen.<\/p>\n<p>It will take years of additional research but the study, reported Wednesday, marks an important step toward one day restoring more natural communication for people who can\u2019t talk because of injury or illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of us take for granted how easily we communicate through speech,\u201d said Dr. Edward Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the work. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to think we\u2019re at the very beginning of a new chapter, a new field\u201d to ease the devastation of patients who lost that ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a medical first, researchers harnessed the brain waves of a paralyzed man unable to speak \u2014 and turned what he intended to say into sentences on a computer screen. It will take years of additional research but the study, reported Wednesday, marks an important step toward one day restoring more natural communication for people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}