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WATCH: Whitehall Woman's Story Airs on '60 Minutes'
Jan Scheuermann's story was originally scheduled to be broadcast on Dec. 16.
UPDATE: The "60 Minutes" piece on Scheuermann is now available online here.
Jan Scheuermann, the Whitehall Borough woman whose groundbreaking brain science story was detailed in a UPMC video and Dec. 18 Patch article, will appear on a nationally televised episode of CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday night.
Scheuermann's story was originally scheduled to be broadcast on Dec. 16, but it was preempted by coverage of the .
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Her episode will now air on Dec. 30 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time.
As part of a UPMC and University of Pittsburgh brain-computer interface study, Scheuermann, a quadriplegic, has had two quarter-inch, square electrode grids placed in the regions of her brain that would normally control her right arm and right hand movement.
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The results, as you can see on this "60 Minutes" preview, are incredible.
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