Restoring Autonomy for People with Paralysis
Engineers, neurosurgeons, and neuroscientists at UC Davis and UC Davis Health have made a groundbreaking achievement.
They have demonstrated that brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can translate brain signals into speech and control a computer cursor.
“Future steps in multimodal BCIs could include gesture decoding for all sorts of different things, enriching the types of interactions someone with paralysis can have with their environment beyond speech,”
said Tyler Singer-Clark, a biomedical engineering Ph.D. student and first author on the paper.
Their findings, published in the Journal of Neuroengineering and supported by funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, pave the way for feature-rich BCIs.
These BCIs restore functions to people with paralysis and a level of autonomy previously thought impossible.
Author summary: Engineers help restore autonomy for paralyzed people using brain-computer interfaces.
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