Introduction: When the Body Stops Moving but the Mind Does Not There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a life after paralysis. Not the silence of a quiet morning or a peaceful room, but the silence of a body that no longer responds. The silence of reaching toward something and nothing happening. Of having a thought, a clear and vivid intention, and feeling it stop somewhere between the brain and the limbs that should carry it out. For people living with spinal cord injury,...