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UW Researchers Devise Brain-Twitter Program To Help Patients

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are studying ways that patients with ALS or spinal cord injuries could use the popular social networking tool Twitter to more easily communicate with the world.

Twitter is a Web site that allows people to communicate in real-time with their friends through 140-character updates. UW-Madison researches have found it might not just be a fun online tool but a way for people locked inside their mind to communicate.