<story><title>Completely Locked-In Patients Can Communicate, Thanks to a Brain Implant (BCI)</title><url>https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/for-the-first-time-a-completely-locked-in-patient-can-communicate-thanks-to-brain-implant-359819</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samanator</author><text>The linked addendum is critical context.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dfg.de&amp;#x2F;service&amp;#x2F;presse&amp;#x2F;pressemitteilungen&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;pressemitteilung_nr_46&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dfg.de&amp;#x2F;service&amp;#x2F;presse&amp;#x2F;pressemitteilungen&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;pr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The two researchers were investigated for lying in their papers. Selected translation of the linked article.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;The DFG investigative committee found false information in three cases. Accordingly, the two scientists, contrary to what they described in the 2017 study, only partially recorded the examinations of their patients on video. In addition, data from individual patients were only evaluated in summary form and not broken down. Overall, a depth of data was conveyed that de facto did not exist.</text></comment>
<story><title>Completely Locked-In Patients Can Communicate, Thanks to a Brain Implant (BCI)</title><url>https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/for-the-first-time-a-completely-locked-in-patient-can-communicate-thanks-to-brain-implant-359819</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emeraldd</author><text>If this is real, that&amp;#x27;s a big step. The beginnings of something like shell people in Anne McCaffery&amp;#x27;s The Ship Who Sang. I wonder if the technology will actually go anywhere.</text></comment>