A biomedical engineering graduate student holds a brain model of a man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis who uses a brain-computer interface to speak. The student has added functionality to the brain ...

Restoring both walking and sensation to patients with paraplegia is an ambitious goal—but a team of researchers from the Keck ...

Shayla Talei's inability to eat without pain caused her to lose about 100 lbs. over the course of months before she was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A BrainGate participant types using a brain implant. (BrainGate Consortium) For people with near-total paralysis, the ability to ...

Electrodes are helping people with paralysis walk again. Spinal cord stimulation isn’t a new approach in helping people get back on their feet. People have previously been able to recuperate some ...

Loss of communication can be among the most devastating symptoms for patients with paralysis. A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and Brown University ...

TikToker Shayla Talei is setting the record straight about her stomach condition. The influencer, 31, who has been diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and gastroparesis, shut down ...

For people experiencing paralysis, communication often means spelling out words one letter at a time by using their eyes to select letters on a keyboard, according to Daniel Rubin, a critical care ...

For people with near-total paralysis, the ability to communicate easily in real time is a challenge. For years, scientists have been working to remedy that by developing devices that can decode brain ...