{"id":125004,"date":"2021-07-15T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-to-man-with-paralysis"},"modified":"2021-07-15T12:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T19:25:53","slug":"neuroprosthesis-restores-words-to-man-with-paralysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-to-man-with-paralysis","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNeuroprosthesis\u201d Restores Words to Man with Paralysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-to-man-with-paralysis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a \u201cspeech neuroprosthesis\u201d that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement, which was developed in collaboration with the first participant of a clinical research trial, builds on more than a decade of effort by UCSF neurosurgeon <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucsf.edu\/edward.chang\">Edward Chang, MD<\/a>, to develop a technology that allows people with paralysis to communicate even if they are unable to speak on their own. <a href=\"https:\/\/mediacenteradmin.nejm.org\/NEJMoa2027540.pdf?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYWNlbnRlcmFkbWluLm5lam0ub3JnL05FSk1vYTIwMjc1NDAucGRmIiwiQ29uZGl0aW9uIjp7IkRhdGVMZXNzVGhhbiI6eyJBV1M6RXBvY2hUaW1lIjoxNjI2MzIxNjAwfSwiRGF0ZUdyZWF0ZXJUaGFuIjp7IkFXUzpFcG9jaFRpbWUiOjE2MjU3MDI0MDB9fX1dfQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K4SVLGX2XX4NO&Signature=pZymsP1jGudVshYlKuSIGWGZNiOEl9PIjXoY2qBHChK6VYR02T1wI5EiCX6hcntl~oYDExsXAqDp~IjG1iiOHjJVZ8fVwYa-Qcn~rIW6GR1NGqPGuquk60V2pfYw9mX7zGm-Zzd3Kh2I5Hv7uPX1KdvDvZXqQWL0ZjuP1T-rG9E1HEy1AWNCT4nlhgQr4~iYgD2qsjpgzfOr2oNIbHHLY7q99frp90qDpDiomAOSSzTIp21Hg-pIVF72-JB-Nv~SpwzX~pAGzhzpj4Id9D5yDKg-zKKZZcQZVT4MvPK-twGawX8TQyuSf8Q3A6GMW6589EgkQ~wspeosMm4rjP1FZA__\">The study<\/a> appears July 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a \u201cspeech neuroprosthesis\u201d that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen. The achievement, which was developed in collaboration with the first participant of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125004","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=125004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}