{"id":194652,"date":"2024-08-16T17:23:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T22:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/breakthrough-brain-computer-interface-allows-man-with-als-to-speak-again"},"modified":"2024-08-16T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T22:23:36","slug":"breakthrough-brain-computer-interface-allows-man-with-als-to-speak-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/breakthrough-brain-computer-interface-allows-man-with-als-to-speak-again","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough brain-computer interface allows man with ALS to speak again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-brain-computer-interface-allows-man-with-als-to-speak-again2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot being able to communicate is so frustrating and demoralizing. It is like you are trapped,\u201d Harrell said. \u201cSomething like this technology will help people back into life and society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the researchers involved, seeing the impact of their work on Harrell\u2019s life has been deeply rewarding. \u201cIt has been immensely rewarding to see Casey regain his ability to speak with his family and friends through this technology,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author, Nicholas Card, a postdoctoral scholar in the UC Davis Department of Neurological Surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Leigh Hochberg, a neurologist and neuroscientist involved in the BrainGate trial, praised Harrell and other participants for their contributions to this groundbreaking research. \u201cCasey and our other BrainGate participants are truly extraordinary. They deserve tremendous credit for joining these early clinical trials,\u201d Hochberg said. \u201cThey do this not because they\u2019re hoping to gain any personal benefit, but to help us develop a system that will restore communication and mobility for other people with paralysis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNot being able to communicate is so frustrating and demoralizing. It is like you are trapped,\u201d Harrell said. \u201cSomething like this technology will help people back into life and society.\u201d For the researchers involved, seeing the impact of their work on Harrell\u2019s life has been deeply rewarding. \u201cIt has been immensely rewarding to see Casey [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194652","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\/194652","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=194652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}