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Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, central China, is sponsoring a multicenter cohort study that aims to enroll 1,000 stroke patients. The treatment arm receives closed-loop rehabilitation combining a brain-computer interface with functional electrical stimulation, and the control arm receives conventional training; the primary endpoint is change in upper- and lower-limb FMA scores two weeks after enrollment. Registered with the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry as ChiCTR2600130037 on August 13, 2026, the study plans first enrollment on September 1, 2026 and has not yet begun recruiting. It will include patients aged 18 to 80 with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke confirmed by MRI or CT, motor impairment of one upper and/or lower limb, and an NIHSS motor score of 1 for the affected limb. The registry lists it as an observational cohort study, phase 4, self-funded.

A prospective cohort of 1,641 motor dysfunction patients, 66.24% chronic stroke, provides the first clinical profile for personalised BCI system design.

A completed RCT compared BCI-controlled versus conventional exoskeleton gait training in stroke patients, training 2 times a week for 4 weeks.

A new preprint introduces BLPM, an EEG-language foundation model that reframes EEG decoding as continuous semantic embedding prediction.

The General Office of China's Zhejiang Provincial People's Government issued Several Measures for Promoting Industry-University-Research Coordination in Brain-Computer Interfaces, document number Zhe Zheng Ban Fa [2026] No. 33, dated July 16, 2026 and released on August 12, comprising 18 measures in five areas. Class II BCI devices of clear clinical value may enter a special review procedure with the timeline cut to within 40 working days, while medical consumables are listed through a green channel within 10 working days. Funding comes in four tiers: up to 10 million yuan for a provincial major science and technology project, up to 8 million yuan for research hospitals deeply involved in preclinical work and product launch, up to 3 million yuan for applied basic research, and 1 million, 500,000 and 100,000 yuan for leading international, national and local standards. Beds used solely for clinical research are exempt from efficiency and DRG performance assessment.

SpikeGadgets says its hardware, using low-latency Ethernet and the TrodesNetwork API, lets researchers detect a neural activity pattern and trigger a perturbation within milliseconds. Two UCSF studies show it in use: one continuously decoded hippocampal population activity in rats to run a neurofeedback system, training the animals to volitionally generate specific memory representations for reward; the other triggered theta-phase-specific optogenetic stimulation in real time and showed that theta rhythm and replay are mechanistically separable.