In far more positive news

[akashiver]

Trace of Thought Is Found in ‘Vegetative’ Patient

At last, we may have a technique that could allow family members to communicate with comatose loved ones. Isn't this amazing?

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ALthough yes/no limitation is depressing. One could use 20 questions to let them spell out words ("is the first letter in the first half of the alphabet? is it in a-f?") but Morse code would be faster, which is why I've learned it -- though more for being able to blink or twitch a finger.

MRI's pretty inconvenient too. They need some better neural hookup.