{"id":175109,"date":"2023-10-28T03:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/als-patients-control-home-devices-with-their-minds-using-bci"},"modified":"2023-10-28T03:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T08:22:53","slug":"als-patients-control-home-devices-with-their-minds-using-bci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/als-patients-control-home-devices-with-their-minds-using-bci","title":{"rendered":"ALS patients control home devices with their minds using BCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/als-patients-control-home-devices-with-their-minds-using-bci2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who have lost their ability to communicate due to a variety of neurological conditions, there\u2019s a lot of hope to preserve or regain their ability to communicate with family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cbrain-computer interface\u201d (BCI) refers to a technology that creates a direct line of communication between the human brain and an outside object or computer system, opening up a wide range of possibilities for things like device control and neurological study.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Oonal\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Cortical Communication (CortiCom) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor those who have lost their ability to communicate due to a variety of neurological conditions, there\u2019s a lot of hope to preserve or regain their ability to communicate with family and friends.\u201d The term \u201cbrain-computer interface\u201d (BCI) refers to a technology that creates a direct line of communication between the human brain and an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175109","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\/175109","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}