Assistive Communication
For people with locked-in syndrome – the inability to move and to speak despite being fully awake and alert (for example, due to brainstem injury or ALS) – restoration of easy communication is a priority. Our research team is developing technologies that would re-enable the ability to control a cursor on a computer screen or to type on a virtual keyboard, simply by thinking about the movement of one’s own hand (for example, as if controlling a computer mouse).
Related Publications
Nuyujukian P, Albites Sanabria J, Saab J, Pandarinath C, Jarosiewicz B, Blabe CH, Franco B, Mernoff ST, Eskandar EN, Simeral JD, Hochberg LR, Shenoy KV, Henderson JM.
Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis
PLoS ONE. 2018 Nov 21; 13(11).
Pandarinath C, Nuyujukian P, Blabe CH, Sorice BL, Saab J, Willett FR, Hochberg LR, Shenoy KV, Henderson JM.
High performance communication by people with paralysis using an intracortical brain-computer interface.
eLife 2017;6:e18554.
Jarosiewicz B, Sarma AA, Bacher D, Masse NY, Simeral JD, Sorice B, Oakley EM, Blabe C, Pandarinath C, Gilja V, Cash SS, Eskandar EN, Friehs G, Henderson JM, Shenoy KV, Donoghue JP, Hochberg LR
Virtual typing by people with tetraplegia using a self-calibrating intracortical brain-computer interface
Sci Transl Med. 2015 Nov 11;7(313):313ra179. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aac7328.