Text from thoughts could give ALS patients a voice

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TEST RUN: The Stanford Neural Prosthetic Translational Lab team engages in a research session with ALS trial participant Pat Bennett. The team studied technology that would help people who have lost the ability to speak to ­communicate.
COURTESY ­STANFORD ­MEDICINE/STEVE FISCH
TEST RUN: The Stanford Neural Prosthetic Translational Lab team engages in a research session with ALS trial participant Pat Bennett. The team studied technology that would help people who have lost the ability to speak to ­communicate.
COURTESY ­STANFORD ­MEDICINE/STEVE FISCH

As a critical care neurologist, Dr. Leigh Hochberg often sees patients who have acute, ongoing and even life-threatening illnesses or injuries to their nervous system. Hochberg works to treat these ailments, but sometimes patients end up losing the ability to move or speak. This is the case for those with ALS, which is an incurable

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