Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A BrainGate participant types using a brain implant. (BrainGate Consortium) For people with near-total paralysis, the ability to ...

That’s the core of what researchers from Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and Brown University are reporting in Nature Neuroscience: a brain-computer interface that lets people with ...

It’s hard to picture a keyboard layout other than the one we know best. From laptops to smartphones, it’s an integral part of our digital lives. Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have now ...

“For many people with paralysis, when losing use of both the hands and the muscles of speech, communication can become difficult or impossible,” said senior author Daniel Rubin, MD, PhD, a critical ...

For people with near-total paralysis, the ability to communicate easily in real time is a challenge. For years, scientists have been working to remedy that by developing devices that can decode brain ...