A new cap is allowing researchers to communicate with patients who are trapped inside their own bodies because of degenerative nerve diseases like a l s. In 20 17, they had a paper in plas biology about how these electrodes on the scalp could read brain waves and decide if someone was thinking the answer yes or thinking the answer no. So what we see is a surprising quality of life despite a desperate physical situation. Beer bammer and chowdery actually claimed to have been able to communicate with a fully paralyzed person before.
A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But as we learned in an episode earlier this year, the scientists behind it have a checkered past.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Tori Dominguez and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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