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News Articles: paralysis

Keith Thomas, who lives with paralysis, poses with the research team at Northwell Health's Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research that worked with him for months to restore lasting movement and feeling in his arm and hand. The 'double neural bypass' system uses brain implants and artificial intelligence to allow signals to and from Thomas' brain to bypass the site of his injury.

Scientists are engineering a sense of touch for people who are paralyzed

A man living with paralysis felt his index finger for the first time in three years, thanks to technology that reconnected his brain and body.

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  • Jon Hamilton
Research participant Doug McCullough uses the adaptive exercise bike during a testing session at the University of Pittsburgh.

Spinal stimulation restored muscles wasted by rare genetic disorder

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal stimulation.

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  • Jon Hamilton
UCSF neurosurgeon Edward Chang says a system that lets a man express his thoughts at 15 words a minute is just the beginning for computer-mediated communication.

Experimental Brain Implant Lets Man With Paralysis Turn His Thoughts Into Words

A stroke left a man paralyzed and speechless. Now a device that decodes brain signals is letting him generate words and sentences.

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  • Jon Hamilton
A man who is paralyzed was able to type with 95% accuracy by imagining that he was handwriting letters on a sheet of paper, a team reported in the journal <em>Nature</em>.

Man Who Is Paralyzed Communicates By Imagining Handwriting

By decoding the brain signals involved in handwriting, researchers have allowed a man who is paralyzed to transform his thoughts into words on a computer screen.

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  • Jon Hamilton