Richard Gregory has Locked-in Syndrome is pictured with Dr Gnanayathum, who's developed a device which interprets the brainwaves
Richard Gregory was paralysed in 2003 after car accident and was crushed by a truck damaging some of his major organs. When arriving at hospital he suffered a major stoke putting him into a coma. Doctors were unsure if he would recover. It was a year before he began to show signs of recovery. He was able to show a lopsided smile and could answer questions with a twitch of his eyebrows. He was diagnosed with having Locked-in Syndrome. The patient is paralysed but fully conscious, with normal brain function. After three years Richard was connected, via electrodes to his forehead, to a computer that could read the electrical signals in his brain and convert them to a command to move a curser on a computer screen. The computer program was developed by Dr Paul Gnanayutham of Portsmouth University a lecturer in computing. Dr Gnanayutham is continuing to develop the software that will help patients with locked-in syndrome to communicate.
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