By Beth Williams Wisconsin State Journal
The patient, head swaddled with wires going every which way to various black boxes, lies still on a hospital bed. A square cursor moves across a computer screen.
With little obvious effort and no physical motion, the patient uses thought alone to move the cursor up or down until it collides with a target at the edge of the screen.
The UW-Madison experiment is about far more than games, it’s about eventually helping people mentally unlock limbs paralyzed by Lou Gehrig’s disease, strokes or other means.