For the first time, a completely paralyzed person has managed to speak sentences using equipment implanted in his body, capable of reading signals from his brain in order to drive a kind of keyboard, report several media, including Science.
“I love you, my super son”, was able to declare to his 4-year-old son this man who had suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for several years. Also called Charcot’s disease, this condition is characterized by a progressive loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord.
Spelling this moving phrase was no small feat for this patient, now 36 years old. It took him months and months of practice to be able to make sentences at a rate of about one character per minute, changing the audible pitch of a perip