Five Australian patients to trial new brain reading device
A device the size of a small paperclip, created to give people with severe paralysis the ability to communicate again, has been approved for its first-in-human clinical trial - an early feasibility study (EFS) of the safety of the device - at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Five patients, living within two hours of Melbourne, with a range of conditions including spinal cord injury, stroke, muscular dystrophy, or motor neurone disease, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) will be recruited during 2019 to trial the device.