How to Communicate With a Paralyzed Person

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A cat is allowing researchers to communicate with patients trapped inside their own bo s because of degenerative nerve diseases like a l s. Ugwald choddery was just a post tock in his lab, and they just worked together. Beer bommer and chowdery claim to have been able 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 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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