{"id":213522,"date":"2025-05-07T22:08:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-first-nonverbal-patient-to-receive-elon-musks-neuralink-shares-a-video-he-edited-and-narrated-using-his-brain-chip"},"modified":"2025-05-07T22:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:08:24","slug":"the-first-nonverbal-patient-to-receive-elon-musks-neuralink-shares-a-video-he-edited-and-narrated-using-his-brain-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-first-nonverbal-patient-to-receive-elon-musks-neuralink-shares-a-video-he-edited-and-narrated-using-his-brain-chip","title":{"rendered":"The first nonverbal patient to receive Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink shares a video he edited and narrated using his brain chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SqrANrm-QMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first nonverbal Neuralink patient to receive the chip implant is offering a glimpse into how he uses the technology \u2014 editing and narrating a YouTube video using signals from his brain.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Smith is the third person in the world to get a brain chip implant with Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink, and the first person with ALS to do so.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stephen-hawking-death-what-is-als-lou-gherigs-disease-2018-3\" data-track-click=\"{'element_name':'body_link','event':'tout_click','index':'bi_value_unassigned','product_field':'bi_value_unassigned'}\" rel=\"\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"20\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stephen-hawking-death-what-is-als-lou-gherigs-disease-2018-3\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"0\" mrfobservableid=\"80ee17a6-2981-4241-91bc-7d391b01e2b9\">Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis<\/a>, also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects motor neurons \u2014 the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement. Over time, patients lose voluntary control of muscle movements, affecting their ability to speak, eat, move, and breathe independently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first nonverbal Neuralink patient to receive the chip implant is offering a glimpse into how he uses the technology \u2014 editing and narrating a YouTube video using signals from his brain. Brad Smith is the third person in the world to get a brain chip implant with Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink, and the first person [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213522","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}