New brain-computer interface breaks through locked-in syndrome

Researchers have been using brain-computer interfaces to interact with patients suffering from locked-in syndrome for a few years now. But a new system from the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Switzerland may finally allow even the most immobile patients communicate with the outside world.
There are degrees to locked-in syndrome. The lesser variety only allows those suffering from it to raise or lower their eyes and blink, theyre fully paralyzed otherwise. Fully lo…
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