Brain Surgeons Give Mute Man Second Chance to Speak
Brain sawbones at Boston University have enabled a mute man to speak again by implanting an electrode into his brainiac . The electrode grass when he ’s thinking about vowels and reproduces them using a speech synthesist . The man first lost his power to speak after head trauma cause blanket bleeding into the pons surface area of his brain stem . BU researcher loaded him into a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine and asked him to attempt to produce specific vowel ....