Home Use of a Percutaneous Wireless Intracortical Brain-Computer Interface by Individuals With Tetraplegia.

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Individuals with neurological disease or injury such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord injury or stroke may become tetraplegic, unable to speak or even locked-in. For people with these conditions, current assistive technologies are often ineffective. Brain-computer interfaces are being developed to enhance independence and restore communication in the absence of physical movement. Over the past decade, individuals with tetraplegia have achieved rapid on-screen typing and point-and-click control of tablet apps using intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) that decode intended arm and hand movements from neural signals recorded by implanted microelectrode arrays. However, cables used to convey neural signals from the brain tether participants to amplifie

SUBMITTER: Simeral JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8218873 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature