ALS Patient Uses Brain Implant at Home for Two Years to Communicate, UC Davis Reports

A team led by the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) reported in Nature Medicine that a patient with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) used an implanted intracortical brain-computer interface (BCI) to communicate independently at home for roughly two years, without researcher assistance, at an average pace of 56 words per minute. The paper was published on June 15, 2026 (paper).