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Loss of communication is not uncommon in patients suffering from debilitating neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and clinical locked-in syndromes. One solution to restore communication involves ...

A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person's brain signals into what they're trying to say. Appearing Nov. 6 in ...

A quadriplegic man named Robert Chmielewski was recently able to feed himself by manipulating a pair of advanced prosthetic arms using signals from his brain. Researchers say the accomplishment marks ...

Prosthetics may no longer be limited to external limbs, if the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s project to restore memories lost from traumatic brain injury (TBI) gets positive results. The ...

When the sensors and AI were helping, the participants could "very reliably" grasp a cup and pretend to take a sip, Trout ...

An unknown startup company has gone public with a fairly aspiring mission: to create a ready-for-clinic brain prosthetic that will help those afflicted with memory problems. Should the technology ...

You can probably complete an amazing number of tasks with your hands without looking at them. But if you put on gloves that muffle your sense of touch, many of those simple tasks become frustrating.

One of the most difficult parts of being a human is effectively getting our thoughts out of our heads and into the world. Everything from visual art to simple conversation suffers from the disparity ...

A testing participant controls a bionic hand through a brain-computer interface that allows him to feel pressure changes as the steering wheel moves in the hand. You can probably complete an amazing ...

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On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. With some brute force testing, though, one scientist has worked out the code that the retina uses to communicate with the brain -- ...