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Aug 2024
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Restoring Lost Speech

NEJM Group
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In recent years, substantial progress has been made in developing brain-computer interfaces that could restore the ability of patients with neurodegenerative diseases and other conditions to communicate.

A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2407613.

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