Awards
Winner: Gold Electrode Award, Neurotech, 2014
Winner: Alfred Mann Foundation Scientist of the Year (2004)
Winner: World Technology Network Award, London (2000)
Winner: Discover Magazine, 1st Place in Assistive Technology (1999)
Winner: Atlanta Magazine Health Care Heroes Award (1999)
Documentary
The Father of the Cyborgs
Produced and Directed by David Burke, Dot Television, Ireland. Release 2021.
Https://Vimeo.com/460561982
PW: Derosa23
Publications
Click Research for list of scientific publication
Book: Unlocking Erik: A freedom journey to restore speech to those with locked-in syndrome. [See special page for more information.]
Wikipedia: See updated description in Wikipedia by entering ‘Neurotrophic Electrode’
Press Releases
- U.S. News and World Report
- Wired Magazine
- Washington Post
- Los Angeles Times
- Chicago Tribune
- USA Today
- Forbes
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Boston Globe
- Wired Magazine
- Newsday
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Seattle Times
- New Scientist
- Atlanta Magazine
- The Sciences
- Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
- The Sciences
Radio Broadcasts
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- National Public Radio “All Things Considered”
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- Metro Source Radio
- Associated Press Radio Network
Television Programs
- PBS 22nd Century
- ABC World News Tonight
- Dateline NBC
- CNN Headline News
- ABC Good Morning America
- NBC News
- BBC World News
- Tokyo Broadcasting System
- PBS “Frontiers of Medicine”
- Discovery Channel (Canada)
- The Learning Channel
- Fox Network
- Associated Press Television
- Swedish Television
- Brazilian TV
- RTL German TV
- Detroit News
- Interview with CUNY TV
http://www.cuny.tv/show/sciencegoestothemovies/PR2006298
Earlier Press Comments
“Kennedy’s neurotrophic electrode gives completely paralyzed people a new way to communicate.”
Discover Magazine, on the Brain Communicator – July 1999
“Thanks to a device designed by Kennedy, an Atlanta neurologist, [Patient] Ray can manipulate a computer cursor with his thoughts.”
U.S. News & World Report, on the Brain Communicator – January 10, 2000
“A significant contribution for individuals with severely debilitating diseases, such as ALS and high-level spinal cord injury.”
National Institutes of Health, on the Muscle Communicator – Aug 2002