Next steps include improving the device’s speed, accuracy and vocabulary size, and maybe one day allowing users to communicate with a computer-generated voice rather than text on a screen.
This would bring a great advancement in technology also in interpreting brain waves.
That’s not nearly as fast as speaking, but quicker than tapping out a response.
This is faster which can help communicating in places more faster like ordering at a drive-through and at restaurants .
Chang’s team built on that work to develop a “speech neuroprosthetic” – a device that decodes the brainwaves that normally control the vocal tract, the tiny muscle movements of the lips, jaw, tongue and larynx that form each consonant and vowel
By altering the brain waves, the patient was able to start communicating with the researchers through there computer.
Today, people who can’t speak or write because of paralysis have very limited ways of communicating
This reminds me of a child I saw on Facebook, that used his tablet to communicate to his family but the process was slow.
marks an important step toward one day restoring more natural communication for people who can’t talk because of injury or illness.
Shows how studies and many theories are changing and become better everytime.
Dr. Thibault said neurofeedback therapy success stories are likely caused by the placebo effect and not the treatment.
Thsi explains more how the actuall treatment may not tell the truth, its actually more the aftermath of it.
But a 2020 meta-analysis of 17 neurofeedback studies examining its impact on disorders like depression and anxiety was less inspiring.
This can bring evidence on how people wonder/question if it would work.
Practitioners across the country use neurofeedback to treat conditions like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, epilepsy and traumatic brain injuries
This can possibly be a cure for many things even more things like (Alzheimer's).
neurofeedback is still not accepted as a mainstream treatment within mental health circles
People may question much of how the therapy works and if they are able to actually be proven to work correctly.
People suffering from anxiety, for instance, may lessen their symptoms by repeatedly being guided to generate brain patterns correlated with a calmer state of mind.
Relates to how the therapy can change people's brain.
The important part, said Dr. Rogel, who founded the neurofeedback clinic Boston Neurodynamics, is repeated exposure to beneficial brain activity. If done often enough, she said, exercises like these can help patients retrain their brains into healthier patterns.
This can possibly change people with mental illnesses brian waves which can lead to maybe curing them from their illness.
The treatment is known as neurofeedback, a therapy some say can improve our attention, moods, sleeping habits and even our athletic ability by measuring brain activity and showing it to us — either on a screen or through headphones — in real time
This allows for people who are struggling with depression possibly are able to become happier. It also allows to see how people can react to different methods.