As reported in the journal
Nature, a clinical trial participant with cervical spinal cord injury used the system to “type” words on a computer at a rate of 90 characters per minute, more than double the previous record for typing with a brain-computer interface. The participant had to merely think about the hand motions involved in creating written letters to complete the task.
The research team is hopeful that such a system could one day help to restore people’s ability to communicate following paralysis caused by injury or illness.
A clinical trial participant created these letters on a computer screen just by thinking about the act of moving his arm and hand to write. (Credit: BrainGate.org)
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Macy Sprunger, a graduate student in Meredith Jackrel’s lab in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, won a three-year $136,560 National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Such fellowships support predoctoral students conducting research in scientific health-related fields.
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IMAGE: Dr. Malanga (right) and Dr. Tyson-Hudson (center) conduct a follow-up examination on a wheelchair user with spinal cord injury. view more
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East Hanover, NJ. May 12, 2021. A team of specialists in regenerative rehabilitation conducted a successful pilot study investigating micro-fragmented adipose tissue (MFAT) injection for rotator cuff disease in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury. They demonstrated that MFAT injection has lasting pain-relief effects. The article, A pilot study to evaluate micro-fragmented adipose tissue injection under ultrasound guidance for the treatment of refractory rotator cuff disease in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury, (doi: 10.1080/10790268.2021.1903140) was published ahead of print on April 8, 2021, by the