A direct spinal cord-computer interface enables the control of the paralysed hand in spinal cord injury
© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain..
The paralysis of the muscles controlling the hand dramatically limits the quality of life of individuals living with spinal cord injury (SCI). Here, with a non-invasive neural interface, we demonstrate that eight motor complete SCI individuals (C5-C6) are still able to task-modulate in real-time the activity of populations of spinal motor neurons with residual neural pathways. In all SCI participants tested, we identified groups of motor units under voluntary control that encoded various hand movements. The motor unit discharges were mapped into more than 10 degrees of freedom, ranging from grasping to individual hand-digit flexion and extension. We then mapped the neural dynamics into a real-time controlled virtual hand. The SCI participants were able to match the cue hand posture by proportionally controlling four degrees of freedom (opening and closing the hand and index flexion/extension). These results demonstrate that wearable muscle sensors provide access to spared motor neurons that are fully under voluntary control in complete cervical SCI individuals. This non-invasive neural interface allows the investigation of motor neuron changes after the injury and has the potential to promote movement restoration when integrated with assistive devices.
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2024 |
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2024 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024 |
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Brain : a journal of neurology - (2024) vom: 19. März |
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Englisch |
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Souza Oliveira, Daniela [VerfasserIn] |
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High density surface electromyography |
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Date Revised 19.03.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status Publisher |
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10.1093/brain/awae088 |
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