The Deep Mind: Neuralink’s speech-restoring device set for October trial. Comment: In my life, I knew a person very well who one day was at the Races and the following day she had a stroke and for nearly 10 years she had to have full-time care and worst of all she had no words, she could not speak. Then we all know the mammoth efforts of Charlie Bird … health is wealth but now there is hope so keep the curiosity in motion and seek answers, because if not already in place they are in the pipeline

Posted on September 23, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

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It’s the stuff of science fiction, but this isn’t “Star Trek,” and it’s no longer fiction as Elon Musk’s Nearalink gears up to test another brain chip device, this time for those who have lost their ability to speak. 

Neuralink will start a clinical trial of its newest device designed to restore speech as early as next month, according to a new report.In May, Elon Musk’s brain implant company received FDA Breakthrough Designation for its implanted brain-computer interface technology that the company said will let those with speech disorders communicate again by recording and decoding brain signals to turn thought into speech or text. A link to join Neuralink’s patient registry to be part of the clinical trial is still live on the company’s website. 

During a lecture at the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies in Seoul last week, Neuralink’s president and COO DJ Seo discussed the project as part of his presentation, Bloomberg reported. Seo said the device could translate imagined speech into actual words. Founded in 2016, Neuralink has been busy the past two years. In January 2024, the company successfully completed its first chip implant in a human brain, followed by a second patient receiving an implant eight months later. And in September that year, Neuralnik received Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA for its eye-sight restoring device Blindsight.

Since then, the pace has only accelerated. Here’s a look at some of Neuralink’s 2025 milestones: 
April: Musk said the first patient will receive Neuralink’s Blindsight, this year
May: Brad Smith, the first nonverbal recipient of a Neuralink brain chip, released a video sharing how he was able to create, edit and narrate a video using the brain computer interface. Smith has ALS
June: Company announces it raised $650 million in a series E funding round
July: Neuralink starts recruiting for its first clinical study in Great Britain 
September: Two Canadian patients with spinal cord injuries received  brain chip implants
What once sounded like science fiction is now in human trials. While Neuralink grabs headlines thanks to Musk, it’s far from alone. Just last month, Sam Altman announced he was co-founding Merge Labs, a brain interface startup that puts him in direct competition with his longtime rival. That rivalry could fuel faster breakthroughs, and with other players like Synchron in the mix, the race is on to reinvent not only how we interact with technology, but how technology helps us interact.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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