When Cathy Hutchinson drank a cinnamon latte from a thermos in 2012, she made history. When she went on to type words, send emails and navigate a wheelchair, it sent waves of excitement through the neuroscience research community. Hutchinson’s accomplishments were doubly sensational: not only was she the only almost-fully paralysed person to pick up her own coffee cup and drink from it, but she was also the first to do it entirely using her mind.
By: Madhumita Venkataramanan,
