A man who had lost the ability to move his eyes due toALS is able to communicate through a brain implant.
The New York Times reports that the implant was able to pick up on the man imagining moving his eyes, which is a notable neuroscience achievement.
The results of the 2020 experiment conducted by Ujwal Chaudhary, a retired biomedical engineer and co-author of a study about the project published in the journal Nature Communications, came as a shock.
I could not believe that it was possible, according to the NYT.
The patient had some specific demands when he first started using the implant.
He said he wanted to have curry with potato then Bolognese and potato soup, using a system of grouped letters he could access mentally.
The lead author of the study, as well as a former neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen, have a questionable track record.
The German Research Foundation found that the two neuroscientists had not provided enough details of their analyses and made false statements.
Brendan Allison, a researcher at the University of California San Diego, told the newspaper that this work should be taken with a mountain of salt.
We don't know how well the same technique will apply to others locked in, because the solution was made specifically for the patient.
We don't know how long patients like the one in question will be able to use the system. His caregivers have no idea why his answers have become slower and harder to comprehend, after he had the device implanted in his brain.
It is a simple choice at the end of the day.
You have two options, no communication or communication at one character per minute.
The New York Times reported that a brain implant allows a paralyzed patient to communicate.
There is more on brain implants.
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