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 ...

We speak at a rate of roughly 160 words every minute. That speed is incredibly difficult to achieve for speech brain implants. Decades in the making, speech implants use tiny electrode arrays inserted ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. A brain implant could help people type — ...

“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 ...