Jackson wants to open up possibilities for people with locked-in syndrome to communicate and move.
He was paralysed by a stroke in 2005 and suffered from locked-in syndrome.
Already, brain-computer interfaces can enable totally paralysed people with locked-in syndrome to communicate.
Multiple locked-in syndrome patients can compete with each other in this game.
Subsequently, she deteriorated and was transported back to the United States with headache and vomiting progressing to quadriparesis, locked-in syndrome, and superimposed encephalopathy.
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His locked-in syndrome sees him communicate with his family by blinking.
And he was the editor of French Elle magazine who one day suffers a horrible stroke and wakes up with locked - what is doctors call locked-in syndrome.
Diagnosis can be further complicated by another condition, called Locked-In Syndrome.
The ashes of Tony Nicklinson, who suffered from locked-in syndrome after a stroke, are to be scattered at a rugby ground where he used to play.
The debate over assisted suicide has resurfaced after Tony Nicklinson, a man with locked-in syndrome, died a week after losing a legal bid to end his life.
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The original hardware for a device that utilizes this technique was developed by Hitachi, and it allows a person with locked-in syndrome to say "yes" or "no, " Jackson said.
First, Dr Sobel's team rigged up the device to allow people who suffer from locked-in syndrome to communicate, by dictating text onto a computer screen using coded patterns of sniffing.
Ms MacDonald hopes that high profile cases like that of Tony Nicklinson in England, who had locked-in syndrome and battled for years for a legal right to end his life, will have raised awareness of the issue.
Of course there are those with terrible conditions - locked-in syndrome, various forms of paralysis - who may wish to die, but be quite unable to do so without help, but for the vast majority of us suicide would be possible as a lone activity for some time after we knew that we were incontrovertibly dying.
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