NeuroVigil's Brain Based Communication Project for ALS sufferers
"Dr. Low and his company have done some outstanding work in this field" - Stephen Hawking
ALS Stephen Hawking and Dr. Low http://neurovigil.com/images/NV_Special_projects/Hawking.jpg A letter from Stephen Hawking Dr. Hawking shares his support and joins NeuroVigil to advise on the brain based communication project. Augie Nieto, iBrain, and Dr.Low Augie Nieto, an ALS sufferer, can now only communicate with his feet. NeuroVigil is developing a system to enable ALS sufferers to continue to communicate using their thoughts, irrespective of their physical condition. iBrain: Communication through the power of your thoughts http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/ibrain-a-device-that-can-read-thoughts.html?_r=0 NeuroVigil Launches NASA Satellite Lab to Expand Applications of Portable Brain Scanner NeuroVigil launched a NASA satellite laboratory for assistive
technologies, including mind enabled communication for individuals
living with ALS, such as advisor Stephen Hawking.
In 2011, NeuroVigil launched an all out effort at the request of NeuroVigil advisor, Stephen Hawking, to come up with a computational cure for Locked-In Syndrome, with the goal of enabling ALS sufferers to keep being able to communicate... via their minds. In 2012, NeuroVigil began a clinical trial on ALS in Philadelphia in partnership with Terry Heiman-Patterson, and in 2013, Augie Nieto, who was introduced to NeuroVigil by Qualcomm chairman Paul Jacobs, became the first iBrain empowered ALS sufferer to spell a word with his mind: "communicate". In January 2014, a patent was submitted and accepted by the U.S. patent office for a method of extracting brain activity.
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Francis Crick Memorial Conference, Cambridge, UK, 7 Jul 2012
July 1st 2013 - New York Times
"By seeing the activation of particular brain structures, we can tell, ‘Ah, this person is trying to move his hands,’ ” explains Philip Low.
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April 3rd, 2012 - New York Times
The researchers traveled to Dr. Hawking's offices in Cambridge, England, fitted him with the iBrain headband and asked him ''to imagine that he was scrunching his right hand into a ball,'' Dr. Low said. The algorithm was able to discern Dr. Hawking's thoughts as signals.
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April 2nd, 2012 - New York Times
"Dr. Low and his company have done some outstanding work in this field," Dr. Hawking said in a statement.
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