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cartoon showing patient thinking about writing while implanted electrodes carry associated brain activity to a computer where it is turned into text on screen

Composing thoughts: mental handwriting produces brain activity that can be turned into text

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to restore the ability to communicate in people with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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Composing thoughts: mental handwriting produces brain activity that can be turned into text

Researchers wirelessly record human brain activity during normal life activities

Cancer-linked mutation accelerates growth of abnormal stroke-causing brain blood vessels

BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) Meeting

Thursday, May 20, 2021

The BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group, which works to ensure a coordinated and focused effort on BRAIN across NIH, will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday, May 20, 2021.

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National Advisory Council (NANDSC) Meeting - September 2022

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Director's Corner

NINDS is committed to ending structural racism

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Inherent in the NINDS mission is that its goal of generating knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease should benefit all people. NIH has recently launched an agency-wide effort called the UNITE Initiative to end structural racism in biomedical research.

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