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Brain implant allows mute man to speak

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Patient with paralysis controls speech synthesizer with his mind.

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  1. Guenther, F. H. et al. Abstract 712.1, presented at Society for Neuroscience annual meeting 19 November 2008. Available at http://tinyurl.com/5j8qdk.

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