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A grant to advance technology which will assist spinal injury patients has been given to a team at Arizona State University and the Children's Neuroscience Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital.

The team will utilise their combined resources and expertise in order to further brain-computer interface technology which is designed to help those with motor and communication difficulties.

The three-year grant of almost $469,000 (£292,654) will help individuals who experience difficulty performing tasks such as dressing, walking, talking, typing or writing due to severe brain disorders or spinal cord injury.

Dr David Adelson, who is leading the team, said: "This is truly a pioneering technology, and we expect that this type of collaborative research [...] will continue to spur further potential innovations and associative technologies in the future."

Such technology could eventually allow patients to operate a robotic arm or motorised wheelchair using a headset that would send signals from the brain to the device, according to findings by a team at Maryland University.

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