AI used to help a stroke patient recover voice
Paralyzed patient's brain activity is translated into words spoken by avatar.…
Keith Jarrett on the strokes he's suffered
> “I can only play with my right hand, and it’s not convincing me anymore,” Mr. Jarrett said. “I even have dreams where I am as messed up as I really am — so I’ve found myself trying to play in my dreams, but it’s just like real…
Nature Remains
> "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains."Whitman, after a paralytic stroke, on what makes life worth living https://t.co/evPbb1UqKv — Maria Popova…
A story to warm a stroke patient's heart
Dave Pell shares a remarkable story at Next Draft [https://wp.me/p3R0cO-56H]. > "Magennis ... was home alone Tuesday, Aug. 13 and called Comcast customer services to address a problem with his cable. He put his phone on speaker and placed it on a table, so he could take…
The Pit
http://poetsandwriters.tumblr.com/post/163447993021/imagine-that-theres-a-giant-pit-thats-opened-up I never thought of speech therapy or just the act of writing this way, but an abiding image for me during stroke rehab was me at the bottom of a pit. I could see people and objects of the life I knew and…
Video Games for Stroke Recovery
> Johns Hopkins researchers are using video games to stimulate brain #recovery [https://twitter.com/hashtag/recovery?src=hash] and improve patients' quality of life: https://t.co/9LDy6f0Z38 pic.twitter.com/8jO0se6XTC [https://t.co/8jO0se6XTC] — Bioness (@BionessLiveOn) April 10, 2017 [https://twitter.com/BionessLiveOn/status/851450991723634688] I…
Worth remembering
> "Words could be approachable in small, isolated units. But a full sentence? That was beyond imagining." https://t.co/k8xiecAglS — Nautilus (@NautilusMag) April 8, 2017 [https://twitter.com/NautilusMag/status/850740023053869056] Well, it wasn't quite like that for me, but loss of my language skills…
Even More Perspective
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, a stroke victim, has just published her narrative of her recovery. A New York Times review [https://nyti.ms/2kUIosQ] shows that she has managed to articulate a perspective on her experience that I've first seen expressed by Shira Toeplitz [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/missed-perspective/…