Adrian Owen has found a way to use brain scans to communicate with people previously written off as unreachable. Now, he is fighting to take his methods to the clinic.
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Cyranoski, D. Neuroscience: The mind reader. Nature 486, 178–180 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/486178a
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