The neuroscientist misconduct investigation reveals serious flaws in a paper on communication with paralyzed patients from the Eberhard-Karls University. Now, the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen ...
The 68-year-old woman hadn't been able to talk for a decade. She'd been on a ventilator and a feeding tube since 2007 and hadn't been able to so much as blink an eye to communicate since 2010. For all ...
Niels Birbaumer, once a prominent neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, fell hard from his pedestal three years back. He was accused of scientific misconduct for his controversial ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. People with a rare condition called complete locked-in syndrome may ...
A fully paralyzed man with ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was able to communicate with doctors and his family using a brain-computer interface that allowed him to spell out words using his ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Lynne Malcolm: Now that we know that the brain is more changeable than we ever thought possible, are we ...
For decades physicians have been trying to find a way to help people with ‘locked in’ syndrome. This syndrome can occur due to certain illnesses and leads people to lose the ability to move any muscle ...
In a world first, the man was able to ask for soup, beer, and even talk about his son for the first time since becoming completely paralyzed. A completely paralyzed man has been able to communicate ...
A prominent German neuroscientist committed scientific misconduct in research in which he claimed to have developed a brain-monitoring technique able to read certain thoughts of paralysed people, ...
A study claims to describe how a man with locked-in syndrome could speak with his family again. Using a brain implant, the man was able to ask for a beer and tell his son he loves him, it said.
It is the stuff of nightmares: trapped in an immobilized body, unable to move a finger or bat an eyelid, yet with sight and hearing and thought undiminished. The impulse to whisper, "I love you," or ...
It is the stuff of nightmares: trapped in an immobilized body, unable to move a finger or bat an eyelid, yet with sight and hearing and thought undiminished. The impulse to whisper, "I love you," or ...