Author Malcolm Gay features a Pitt neuroscientist and a patient-volunteer in his new book on the scientific competition to enable brain-controlled movement in the paralyzed.

The book, The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was released on Oct. 20. 2015. See  advance interviews and reviews: NPR, Scientific American and the Boston Globe.