Implants Read Intentions of Tetraplegic Patient from Brain Activity (5 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Implants Read Intentions of Tetraplegic Patient from Brain Activity (5 of 6)

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Giving himself a drink for the first time in 10 years, Erik Sorto says, "This study has been very meaningful to me. As much as the project needed me, I needed the project. The project has made a huge difference in my life. It gives me great pleasure to be part of the solution for improving paralyzed patients' lives." This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 22, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Tyson Aflalo at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Decoding motor imagery from the posterior parietal cortex of a tetraplegic human."

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[Credit: Spencer Kellis and Christian Klaes / Caltech]

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