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Body art meets neuroprosthetics

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A tongue stud containing a magnetic tracing device, known as the Tongue Drive System (TDS), can be used to control a computer or drive a wheelchair, a recent report demonstrates. Both able-bodied participants and individuals with spinal cord injury performed considerably better on these activities with the TDS than with the sip-and-puff device—an assistive technology commonly used by people with tetraplegia. The researchers are now developing an intraoral version of the TDS with sensors mounted on a dental retainer.

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  1. Kim, J. et al. The tongue enables computer and wheelchair control for people with spinal cord injury. Sci. Transl. Med. 5, 213ra166 (2013)

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Body art meets neuroprosthetics. Nat Rev Neurol 10, 3 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2013.261

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