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Ed Ziomek
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 Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject: Communication Aid for Paralysed: New Project |
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From the BBC and Hitachi Electronics....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4286936.stm
"Communication aid for paralysed
Japanese scientists have developed a device which allows people with severe paralysis to communicate.
The headband - called kokoro-gatari - has been developed to help patients incapable of even the slightest movement, such as blinking.
It works by measuring the one function these patients can still control - blood flow through their brains.
In tests it enabled patients to signal yes or no to a question with an 80% accuracy.
The device, whose name translates to mind-talk in English, was developed by electronics giant Hitachi.
It has been designed to aid people with a form of motor neurone disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. ...."
Amazing new development ... I found this on a Japanese Discussion Group website...
www.jref.com
"forums"
search keyword "Communication Device"
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject: Alzheimer Applications? |
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I have written Etsuhiko Shoyama. President and Chief Executive Officer of Hitachi concerning this wonderful new project, with the hopes that Alzheimer patients be also tested for communications possibilities.
From personal experience, I know that some form of "cognition" occurs even at late stages in the Alzheimer timetable of ??? detachment, and that the "brain wave" activity might be a new tool in helping these patients express themselves.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject: Brain Gate.... American Product using Brain Waves.... |
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I just saw on C-Span 2, another American company developing products for the paralyzed...
Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc
http://www.cyberkineticsinc.com/content/index.jsp
BRAINGATE SYSTEM NAMED ONE OF "BIGGEST DISCOVERIES OF 2005"
WIRED News' author, Leander Kahney, described the first BrainGate clinical trial volunteer, Matthew Nagle, as the "first neuro-cybernaut...the first paralyzed person to control an artificial hand by brain power alone."
Help for Alzheimer's patients too, I imagine.
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