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ArticleNature communications2025

Stabilizing brain-computer interfaces through alignment of latent dynamics.

Brianna M Karpowicz, Yahia H Ali, Lahiru N Wimalasena, Andrew R Sedler, Mohammad Reza Keshtkaran, Kevin Bodkin, Xuan Ma, Daniel B Rubin, Ziv M Williams, Sydney S Cash and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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36 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Brianna M KarpowiczWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Yahia H AliWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Lahiru N WimalasenaWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Andrew R SedlerWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Mohammad Reza KeshtkaranWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Kevin BodkinDepartment of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6329-7353
Xuan MaDepartment of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3352-1905
Daniel B RubinDepartment of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6982-9587
Ziv M WilliamsHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0017-0048
Sydney S CashDepartment of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Leigh R HochbergDepartment of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0261-2273
Lee E MillerDepartment of Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8675-7140
Chethan PandarinathWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. chethan@gatech.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6519-4641

Funding

Interdisciplinary Engineering Career Development Center in Movement and Rehabilitation SciencesK12HD073945 · NICHD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI DEWALD, JULIUS P, REINKENSMEYER, DAVID JAY · 2012 to 2021
$7.9M
Primate model of an intracortically controlled FES prostR01NS053603 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KENNEDY, ANN KATHRYN, MILLER, LEE · 2006 to 2021
$7.1M
Intuitive, complete neural control of tablet computers for communicationU01DC017844 · NIDCD · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI HOCHBERG, LEIGH R · 2019 to 2025
$4.3M
Fusing motor neuroscience and artificial intelligence to create next-generation neural prostheses.DP2NS127291 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI PANDARINATH, CHETHAN · 2021 to 2024
$2.4M
Training in Computational Neural EngineeringT32EB025816 · NIBIB · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Michael Robert Borich, Christopher John Rozell · 2019 to 2026
$1.9M
Robust modeling of within- and across-area population dynamics using recurrent neural networks - Admin SupplRF1DA055667 · NIDA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI MILLER, LEE, PANDARINATH, CHETHAN · 2021 to 2023
$1.6M
The representation of uncertainty in the sensorimotor systemR01NS074044 · NINDS · REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO D/B/A SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITYLAB · PI KORDING, KONRAD P., MILLER, LEE · 2011 to 2015
$1.6M
NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB025816NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD073945NIDA NIH HHS RF1 DA055667NIDCD NIH HHS U01 DC017844NINDS NIH HHS DP2 NS127291NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS053603NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS074044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) restore motor function to people with paralysis by translating brain activity into control signals for external devices. In current iBCIs, instabilities at the neural interface result in a degradation of decoding performance, which necessitates frequent supervised recalibration using new labeled data. One potential solution is to use the latent manifold structure that underlies neural population activity to facilitate a stable mapping between brain activity and behavior. Recent efforts using unsupervised approaches have improved iBCI stability using this principle; however, existing methods treat each time step as an independent sample and do not account for latent dynamics. Dynamics have been used to enable high-performance prediction of movement intention, and may also help improve stabilization. Here, we present a platform for Nonlinear Manifold Alignment with Dynamics (NoMAD), which stabilizes decoding using recurrent neural network models of dynamics. NoMAD uses unsupervised distribution alignment to update the mapping of nonstationary neural data to a consistent set of neural dynamics, thereby providing stable input to the decoder. In applications to data from monkey motor cortex collected during motor tasks, NoMAD enables accurate behavioral decoding with unparalleled stability over weeks- to months-long timescales without any supervised recalibration.

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Brain-Computer InterfacesMotor CortexAnimalsHumansMacaca mulattaMaleMovementNeural Networks, Computer

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PMID40389429
PMCPMC12089531

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