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CLEVEMED AWARDED $194,000 NIH GRANT TO BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR PATIENTS WITH LOCKED-IN SYNDROME


CLEVELAND, OHIO, December 28, 2006 - Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (CleveMed) has been awarded a $194,000 Phase I grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to begin the development of an assistive technology (AT) device to provide a method of communication for people with locked-in syndrome.

Locked-in syndrome, often found in patients of advanced stage Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), often causes complete paralysis of all voluntary muscles in the body. People with this disorder are completely conscious, have all feeling, and are able to process thoughts, but they cannot move or communicate because of complete paralysis of nearly all of their voluntary muscles. CleveMed's device, "The ALS Locked-In COmmunicatoR, or TALCOR (pronounced "TALKER"), will be a 4-mode communication aid for people with this disability. The primary method will use Electroencephalography (EEG) signals as a means for exchanging information between the brain and the device through a Brain Computer Interface (BCI).

According to Robert N. Schmidt, company Chairman and grant principal investigator, "this program will provide a simple device to take standard assistive technology to the next level with Biometric Interfaces."

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