Implantable device research from the BrainGate clinical trial enables communication through rapid typing for a patient with ...

The BrainGate Neural Interface System is currently an investigational device that allows some people with severe brain injuries and motor disabilities to regain the capacity to communicate and control ...

Loss of communication can be among the most devastating symptoms for patients with paralysis. A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and Brown University ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In an important step toward a medical technology that could help restore independence of people with paralysis, researchers find the ...

For years, scientists have been working to remedy that by developing devices that can decode brain signals and translate them into computer cursor movements or text. In the past, BCIs allowed people ...

When Matt Nagle plays Pong on his computer, people watch with amazement. He doesn't win all the games, and most of the time he plays against himself, but he doesn't use his hands or any other part of ...

Twenty years ago, restoring limb function in a paraplegic may have been an idea that existed only in the realm of science fiction. But today, thanks to the BrainGate project — involving a team of ...

Editor's Note: This writer was a colleague of the founder of SpeakYourMind in Brown University's BrainGate lab. A week before Maggie Worthen was due to graduate from Smith College, she suffered a ...

Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and drank through the straw. His motions were slow and deliberate, but then Kochevar hadn’t moved his right arm or hand for eight years. And ...