First brain implant that can be used at home

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3100, 2016, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hanneke De Bruijne, a paralyzed woman, has learned to spell words and communicate via electrodes in her brain. It's the first time a person has been able to use a brain-computer interface at home in their daily life. De Bruijne is 58 years old and has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that ravages nerve cells. Within a couple of years of her diagnosis in 2008, she could no longer breathe by herself and needed a ventilator.