In the media...
A Speech Neuroprosthesis
(a.k.a Speech Brain-Computer Interface
or: Speech Brain-Machine Interface)
Our article entitled "A Speech Neuroprosthesis in the Frontal Lobe and Hippocampus: Decoding High-Frequency Activity into Phonemes" (Neurosurgery, 2024) was reported in detail in the media.
In HaAretz newspaper (a main daily Israeli newspaper):
לפרוץ את מחסום הקול: חוקרים ישראלים הצליחו לתרגם מחשבה לדיבור
Other reports about our research in the local and international media:
Israel
All Israel News (also in French)
United Kingdom
The Netherlands
China
India
ANI (South Asia’s Leading Multimedia News Agency – India)
India Lastly Information Portal
The News Mill – Voice of Northeast India
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Australia and New Zealand
Jewish News sites
Spain / in Spanish
Israel Ministry of Exterior Relations - In Spanish
Lithuania
Medicina in dar kai kas Visiems
Science, Technology, and Medicine
Medical Design and Development
Technology.org – Science & Technology News
Speech encoding and decoding
Our study "Structured neuronal encoding and decoding of human speech features" (Nature Communications, 2012) was reported in multiple newspapers. Few of the examples are the Daily Mail (London) report "The brain breakthrough that could help Stephen Hawking speak again" (in English), Courrier Sciences "Nos neurones ont de l’oreille pour les voyelles" (in French), or in Ha'aretz (main Israeli newspaper) front page (in Hebrew):
and in Ma'ariv (another main Israeli newspaper):
A patient with essential tremor plays the violin during neurosurgery
Our case of a former violinist with essential tremor implanted with deep brain stimulator (DBS) to regain ability to play the violin during the surgery was widely reported by the general media. In this picture, I activate the electrical stimulation which allows the fine motor movements required to control the violin.
A patient with Parkinson's disease
plays the piano during neurosurgery
The video shows our patient, a piano teacher with Parkinson’s disease, implanted with deep brain stimulator (DBS). During surgery, when I activate stimulation, she is able to play the piano again.