Just lost my MIL to a subcranial haematoma, and an uncle a few years back to a delayed-response stroke.
Do you forsee a near future (say 20yrs) whereby someone with a poor prognosis due to brain injury could have the affected area 'bypassed' and hooked up to a machine that can process some of that 'signal'?
Eg. someone who cannot speak following a TBI could have the affected speech or motor neurons/zones emulated by a computer or machine that could 'tidy up' the noise or add in the missing pathways etc and thus use their own voice again. Like a 'hardware offload' for a patient with impaired/impacted brain function.
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Just lost my MIL to a subcranial haematoma, and an uncle a few years back to a delayed-response stroke.
Do you forsee a near future (say 20yrs) whereby someone with a poor prognosis due to brain injury could have the affected area 'bypassed' and hooked up to a machine that can process some of that 'signal'?
Eg. someone who cannot speak following a TBI could have the affected speech or motor neurons/zones emulated by a computer or machine that could 'tidy up' the noise or add in the missing pathways etc and thus use their own voice again. Like a 'hardware offload' for a patient with impaired/impacted brain function.
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