{"doi":"10.1093/braincomms/fcab248","title":"Implantable brain–computer interface for neuroprosthetic-enabled volitional hand grasp restoration in spinal cord injury","abstract":"Loss of hand function after cervical spinal cord injury severely impairs functional independence. We describe a method for restoring volitional control of hand grasp in one 21-year-old male subject with complete cervical quadriplegia (C5 American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale A) using a portable fully implanted brain-computer interface within the home environment. The brain-computer interface consists of subdural surface electrodes placed over the dominant-hand motor cortex and connects to a transmitter implanted subcutaneously below the clavicle, which allows continuous reading of the electrocorticographic activity. Movement-intent was used to trigger functional electrical stimulation of the dominant hand during an initial 29-weeks laboratory study and subsequently via a mechanical hand orthosis during in-home use. Movement-intent information could be decoded consistently throughout the 29-weeks in-laboratory study with a mean accuracy of 89.0% (range 78-93.3%). Improvements were observed in both the speed and accuracy of various upper extremity tasks, including lifting small objects and transferring objects to specific targets. At-home decoding accuracy during open-loop trials reached an accuracy of 91.3% (range 80-98.95%) and an accuracy of 88.3% (range 77.6-95.5%) during closed-loop trials. Importantly, the temporal stability of both the functional outcomes and decoder metrics were not explored in this study. A fully implanted brain-computer interface can be safely used to reliably decode movement-intent from motor cortex, allowing for accurate volitional control of hand grasp.","journal":"Brain Communications","year":2021,"id":155400,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":59,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9489,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":529894,"name":"Kevin Davis","orcid":"0000-0002-0258-077X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":658009,"name":"Benyamin Meschede-Krasa","orcid":"0000-0001-8539-5096","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":658010,"name":"Noeline W. 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