Home Brain Implant Restores Speech and Computer Use for ALS Patient
A 48-year-old man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis uses an implanted brain-computer interface at home to translate neural activity into text, enabling him to communicate at about 56 words per minute and to operate his computer and stay employed; over ~23 months he produced 183,060 sentences with 92% decoded at least mostly correctly, with a privacy mode, demonstrating day-to-day viability of BCIs as medical devices.