Thanks for posting the story. I have of similar cases.
I wonder if there could be some kind of apparatus to allow selection of letters by brain wave from something like a virtual Ouija board? Like the patient can think “Yes” or “No” as, one by one, letters in view on a screen blink in sequence?
I can’t believe these near-paralysis efforts will NOT show on a brain wave monitor. Someone needs to hook it up with a means of communication, and then make the whole thing economical enough to deploy in all hospitals.
It could be tested with volunteers who aren’t paralyzed, but for those willing to undergo it for the sake of science, it could even be tested with people temporarily immobilized with medical pancuronium and breathing on a tube, once they have satisfied themselves that it will work when not immobilized. That would take a brave volunteer, but if it would convince the doubtful that this thing isn’t coming up with mere nonsense, even I would be willing to do it.