After losing Medicaid, parents of Florida's sickest kids are in limbo
Osceola resident Oscar Hernandez is scrambling to ensure his 16-year-old terminally ill son, Llarell, will continue to receive medical care.
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Nervous System Diseases: News and Research on Paralysis
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Researchers discover a protein that stimulates optic nerve regeneration
Damage to the optic nerve can lead to irreversible blindness. A newly investigated regeneration factor could change that, UConn researchers report in the May 2024 issue of Experimental Neurology.
Mar 26, 2024
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Elon Musk's brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds
Elon Musk's company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people's brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone by thought alone. This is otherwise known as a brain-computer ...
Mar 18, 2024
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Paul Alexander thrived while using an iron lung for decades after contracting polio as a child
Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book about his life, built a big following on social ...
Mar 13, 2024
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New throat patch can turn muscle movements into speech
A new adhesive patch could one day help people with voice disorders speak again by using artificial intelligence to read the movements of their throat muscles and turn them into speech, researchers said Tuesday.
Mar 12, 2024
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Researchers perform in-home test of adaptive robot interface for a person with quadriplegia
No one could blame Carnegie Mellon University students Akhil Padmanabha and Janavi Gupta if they were a bit anxious this past August as they traveled to the Bay Area home of Henry and Jane Evans.
Feb 27, 2024
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Several companies are testing brain implants—why is there so much attention swirling around Neuralink?
Putting a computer inside someone's brain used to feel like the edge of science fiction. Today, it's a reality. Academic and commercial groups are testing "brain-computer interface" devices to enable people with disabilities ...
Feb 14, 2024
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The brain is the most complicated object in the universe—scientists seek to decode it and read people's minds
In the middle of 2023, a study conducted by the HuthLab at the University of Texas sent shockwaves through the realms of neuroscience and technology. For the first time, the thoughts and impressions of people unable to communicate ...
Feb 8, 2024
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Neuralink has put its first chip in a human brain: What could possibly go wrong?
Earlier this week, Elon Musk announced his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, had implanted a device in a human for the first time. The company's PRIME study, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last ...
Feb 2, 2024
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Locked-in syndrome is predominant outcome when children survive drowning, large study confirms
It is a far cry from the traditionally thought-of "vegetative state" in which the mind is absent while the body lives on. Indeed, it is the opposite. Children with "locked-in syndrome," unable to move or speak, are awake ...
Jan 26, 2024
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