{"id":13119,"date":"2019-04-25T09:42:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13119"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:42:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:42:54","slug":"decoded-brain-signals-could-give-voiceless-people-a-way-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13119","title":{"rendered":"Decoded Brain Signals Could Give Voiceless People A Way To Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found a way to transform brain signals into spoken words and sentences.<\/p>\n<p>The approach could someday help people who have lost the ability to speak or gesture, a team from the University of California, San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1119-1\">reported<\/a> Wednesday in the journal <em>Nature.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finding a way to restore speech is one of the great challenges in neurosciences,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/vivo.brown.edu\/display\/lhochber\">Dr. Leigh Hochberg<\/a>, a professor of engineering at Brown University who wasn&#8217;t associated with the study. &#8220;This is a really exciting new contribution to the field.&#8221;\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/04\/24\/716790281\/decoded-brain-signals-could-give-voiceless-people-a-way-to-talk?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=72079826&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8xfEMybFH3254kohY2JZM3pEK34F9ClHvaQj2mYyie80kble0Zvr2bWCsj1Mv-iHOYczEftAAV_I_jkR0K7XnZR7Lplg&amp;_hsmi=72079826\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) Scientists have found a way to transform brain signals into spoken words and sentences. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13120,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119\/revisions\/13120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}