Mind Over Body: New Hope For Quadriplegics

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Wed, 03/12/2008 - 15:00

Around 2.5 million people worldwide are wheelchair bound because of spinal injuries. Half of them are quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down.

European researchers are now offering them new hope thanks to groundbreaking technology that uses brain signals alone to control computers, artificial limbs and even wheelchairs.


 

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