How Do You Communicate With Your Brain When You Can't Move?

Patient knew he was losing motor function, so doctors implanted electrodes directly on his brain in the gon that controls movement. Doctors asked him to imagine moving his hands, arms, tongue to see if they could get any clear signals from the implants. After 12 days of rhe reached the goal of matching the first note. When later asked him how he was doing it, he said he was imagining his eyes moving - not even moving, just thinking about moving.

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