Words Worth

“For the past six years, Casey Harrell’s life has felt like a slow-motion car crash. At 42, he began to lose his voice to the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. His world shrank as his ability to sing to his young daughter, give a presentation for work or tell a joke eroded.
Three years later, researchers at the University of California at Davis placed experimental implants in his brain. He gained something incredible: ‘The ability to talk from my brain.'” WaPo (Gift Article): Two years, 2 million words: How a brain implant transformed an ALS patient’s life.