{"id":177061,"date":"2023-11-29T20:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T02:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/brain-implant-can-enable-communication-through-thoughts-alone"},"modified":"2023-11-29T20:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T02:24:52","slug":"brain-implant-can-enable-communication-through-thoughts-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/brain-implant-can-enable-communication-through-thoughts-alone","title":{"rendered":"Brain Implant Can Enable Communication Through Thoughts Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-implant-can-enable-communication-through-thoughts-alone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person\u2019s brain signals into what they\u2019re trying to say.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing Nov. 6 in the journal <em>Nature Communications<\/em>, the new technology might one day help people unable to talk due to neurological disorders regain the ability to communicate through a brain-computer interface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many patients who suffer from debilitating motor disorders, like ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or locked-in syndrome, that can impair their ability to speak,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.duke.edu\/person\/gregory.cogan\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory Cogan, Ph.D.<\/a>, a professor of neurology at Duke University\u2019s School of Medicine and one of the lead researchers involved in the project. \u201cBut the current tools available to allow them to communicate are generally very slow and cumbersome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person\u2019s brain signals into what they\u2019re trying to say. Appearing Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Communications, the new technology might one day help people unable to talk due to neurological disorders regain the ability to communicate through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177061","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}