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 ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- In a recent experiment, a woman suffering from A.L.S. was able to express her thoughts by typing on a screen, not with her fingers but with her brain waves. She was able to ...

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 ...

A new study in Science Translational Medicine describes three software innovations that substantially improved the user experience and performance of the BrainGate brain computer interface (BCI).

In a May study published in Nature, the BrainGate research consortium — which includes researchers from Brown, Stanford University and Case Western Reserve University — presented a new system of brain ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cullen Education and Research Fund (CERF) announced the recipients of the first CERF Medical Engineering Prize for ALS Research: Dr. Leigh Hochberg, Dr. Conor Walsh, and Dr. Sabrina Paganoni.

The Cullen Education and Research Fund (CERF) announced the recipients of the first CERF Medical Engineering Prize for ALS Research: Dr. Leigh Hochberg, Dr. Conor Walsh, and Dr. Sabrina Paganoni.

BrainGate2 clinical trial participant T7 used the brain-computer interface to control a specially designed radial keyboard. Innovations in the system's decoder keep the system calibrated automatically ...

Quadriplegics may be celebrating their own independence day in the not-too-distant future. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently cleared a pilot study of the BrainGate Neural Interface System ...

FOXBORO - The company at the forefront of developing technology that allows severely disabled people to communicate and control various aspects of their homes by harnessing their brain waves appears ...