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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Researchers and volunteers around the world are taking early steps toward a complex but straightforward technological goal: to use electrical signals from the brain as instructions to computers and other machines, allowing paralyzed people to communicate, move around and control their environment literally without moving a muscle.
Most dramatically, that could help "locked-in" patients — those who've lost all muscle movement because of conditions like Lou Gehrig's disease or brainstem strokes.
Take a look at what other people have accomplished lately with signals from their brains:
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