Last year, a paralyzed patient unable to talk used her brain waves to speak sentences. This astonishing feat, straight out of science fiction, was made possible by funding from the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN (Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative. Yet, in a stunningly shortsighted move, Congress has slashed funding for this program […]
Author Archives: Doris Tsao
Doris Tsao is a Professor of Neuroscience at University of California Berkeley and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She wrote this for InsideSources.com.