Mind Reading

"Locked in" patients, who have alert minds but cannot communicate because of brain injury or disease, may have a new way to make their needs known. University of Toronto engineers developed a system that measures blood flow to the parts of the brain that process preferences. When there are choices to be made about, say, medical care, the patient could be the one to decide.

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