ArticleBrain sciences2016
Body-Machine Interfaces after Spinal Cord Injury: Rehabilitation and Brain Plasticity.
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- Brain Plasticity in Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Knowledge mapping and research trends of brain-computer interface technology in rehabilitation: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Neuronal plasticity during motor rehabilitation training after spinal cord injury.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Transient effects in corticospinal and reticulospinal tract excitability induced by motor skill and isometric resistance training.Brain research · 2026Article
- Regional specialization of movement encoding across the primate sensorimotor cortex.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Development and evaluation of a non-invasive brain-spine interface using transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- The Mechanobiological Hypothesis of Piezo Family-Mediated Exercise Intervention in Spinal Cord Injury Recovery.Neural plasticity · 2025Review
- Neurorehabilitation and white matter repair in traumatic spinal cord injury: a dialogue between clinical and preclinical studies.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Autoencoder-based myoelectric controller for prosthetic hands.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Learning to operate a high-dimensional hand via a low-dimensional controller.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Motor improvements enabled by spinal cord stimulation combined with physical training after spinal cord injury: review of experimental evidence in animals and humans.Bioelectronic medicine · 2021Review
- Recovery of Distal Arm Movements in Spinal Cord Injured Patients with a Body-Machine Interface: A Proof-of-Concept Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Cerebellar contribution to sensorimotor adaptation deficits in humans with spinal cord injury.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Guiding functional reorganization of motor redundancy using a body-machine interface.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Autonomy in Rehabilitation Robotics: An Intersection.Annual review of control, robotics, and autonomous systems · 2018Article
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The purpose of this study was to identify rehabilitative effects and changes in white matter microstructure in people with high-level spinal cord injury following bilateral upper-extremity motor skill training. Five subjects with high-level (C5-C6) spinal cord injury (SCI) performed five visuo-spatial motor training tasks over 12 sessions (2-3 sessions per week). Subjects controlled a two-dimensional cursor with bilateral simultaneous movements of the shoulders using a non-invasive inertial measurement unit-based body-machine interface. Subjects' upper-body ability was evaluated before the start, in the middle and a day after the completion of training. MR imaging data were acquired before the start and within two days of the completion of training. Subjects learned to use upper-body movements that survived the injury to control the body-machine interface and improved their performance with practice. Motor training increased Manual Muscle Test scores and the isometric force of subjects' shoulders and upper arms. Moreover, motor training increased fractional anisotropy (FA) values in the cingulum of the left hemisphere by 6.02% on average, indicating localized white matter microstructure changes induced by activity-dependent modulation of axon diameter, myelin thickness or axon number. This body-machine interface may serve as a platform to develop a new generation of assistive-rehabilitative devices that promote the use of, and that re-strengthen, the motor and sensory functions that survived the injury.
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