A new computer programme instantly read your mind
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 02-02-2016
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"Clinically, you could think of our result as a proof of concept towards building a communication mechanism for patients who are paralysed or have had a stroke and are completely locked-in," Rao said. The study involved seven epilepsy patients receiving care at Harborview Medical Centre in US.
Each was experiencing epileptic seizures not relieved by medication, so each had undergone surgery in which their brains' temporal lobes were temporarily implanted with electrodes to try to locate the seizures' focal points, said Jeff Ojemann, neurosurgeon at UW School of Medicine.