{"id":174761,"date":"2023-10-26T03:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T08:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/brain-computer-interface-restores-control-of-home-devices-for-patient-with-als"},"modified":"2023-10-26T03:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T08:23:42","slug":"brain-computer-interface-restores-control-of-home-devices-for-patient-with-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/brain-computer-interface-restores-control-of-home-devices-for-patient-with-als","title":{"rendered":"Brain-computer interface restores control of home devices for patient with ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-computer-interface-restores-control-of-home-devices-for-patient-with-als2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the day after the Baltimore Orioles clinched the American League East Championship with their 100th win of the season, and lifelong fan Tim Evans is showing his pride on his sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so great,\u201d Evans, 62, says with a huge smile, wearing his orange O\u2019s jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Orioles won the AL East was in 2014, the same year Evans was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive nervous system disease that causes muscle weakness and loss of motor and speech functions. Evans currently has severe speech and swallowing problems. He can talk slowly, but it\u2019s hard for most people to understand him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the day after the Baltimore Orioles clinched the American League East Championship with their 100th win of the season, and lifelong fan Tim Evans is showing his pride on his sleeve. \u201cIt\u2019s so great,\u201d Evans, 62, says with a huge smile, wearing his orange O\u2019s jersey. The last time the Orioles won the AL [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174761","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\/174761","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}