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Several researchers belonging to the largest children's rehabilitation hospital in Canada have developed a technique that uses infrared light on the brain to decipher what their patients, who can not speak or move, are thinking. This mechanism is based on knowing the patient's spontaneous thoughts , ie they prefer, a choice that to the experts is the basis for daily decision.
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