BCIwiki (bciwiki.com) — The VA Office of Research and Development is advancing a high-performance implanted brain-computer interface (BCI) project to improve independence for Veterans and others living with tetraplegia or the inability to speak resulting from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord injury or stroke. The project enhances deep learning neural network decoders and multi-state gesture decoding for increased accuracy and reliability, deploying them on a battery-powered mobile BCI device for independent use of computers and touch-enabled mobile devices at home.
The study, registered on the U.S. clinical trials registry under identifier NCT05470478, is not yet recruiting. The accuracy and usability of the mobile iBCI will be evaluated with participants already enrolled separately in the investigational clinical trial of the BrainGate neural interface, an ongoing invasive BCI trial that enables people with paralysis to control external devices through thought.