{"id":175882,"date":"2023-11-12T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/this-brain-implant-turns-thoughts-into-speech"},"modified":"2023-11-12T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:23:15","slug":"this-brain-implant-turns-thoughts-into-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/this-brain-implant-turns-thoughts-into-speech","title":{"rendered":"This Brain Implant Turns Thoughts into Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-brain-implant-turns-thoughts-into-speech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is also available in: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-hls.com\/he\/archives\/121640\" class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i-hls.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sitepress-multilingual-cms\/res\/flags\/he.png\" alt=\"he\" title=\"\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea\"> \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea (Hebrew)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A revolutionary brain implant invented by a team of neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can transform thoughts into speech. This technology will hopefully help people who cannot speak because of neurological conditions be able to communicate once more.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Cogan, a professor of neurology at Duke University\u2019s School of Medicine and one of the lead researchers in the project, explains: \u201cThere are many patients who suffer from debilitating motor disorders, like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or locked-in syndrome, that can impair their ability to speak\u2026 But the current tools available to allow them to communicate are generally very slow and cumbersome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is also available in: \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea (Hebrew) A revolutionary brain implant invented by a team of neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can transform thoughts into speech. This technology will hopefully help people who cannot speak because of neurological conditions be able to communicate once more. Gregory Cogan, a professor of neurology at Duke University\u2019s School [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175882","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=175882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}