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2024-08-16 19:52:20

Nicole Rust on Nostr: Profound and beautuful and wow: ALS (which afflicted Stephen Hawking and Lou Gehrig) ...

Profound and beautuful and wow:

ALS (which afflicted Stephen Hawking and Lou Gehrig) is a terrible neurodegenerative disorder. Researchers have been working to create brain-computer-interfaces to restore communication when patients become locked-in (conscious but unable to communicate) with notable sucess (like they imagine writing letters and they appear on a computer screen). But it’s all a bit tedious and finiky.

One researcher, now an Assistant Professor at UC Davis (Sergey Stavisky) had an idea: if we read out signals from the bits of the brain not used for motor functions like writing but the ones used to speak … well … just watch the video. CW: tears might be shed.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=thPhBDVSxz0
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