Collaborative Efforts
In 2012, we will begin collaborative efforts at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and California Institute of Technology to demonstrate closed-loop cortical control of the Modular Prosthetic Limb in human subjects with high spinal cord injuries.
Revolutionizing Prosthetics Related Efforts
Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh Human Rehabilitation and Neural Engineering Laboratory
- Brain–Machine Interface Research
- Electrocorticographic Brain–Machine Interface
Recruiting Information: ECoG Direct Brain Interface for Individuals with Upper Limb Paralysis
- Microelectrode Brain–Machine Interface
Recruiting Information: Microelectrode Brain–Machine Interface for Individuals with Tetraplegia
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Los Amigos Rancho Rehabilitation Research Institute, Inc. (LAREI)
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (through the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine)
- Recruiting Information: Virtual Integrated Environment in Decreasing Phantom Limb Pain (VIE)
Related Clinical Trials
- BrainGate2: Feasibility Study of an Intracortical Neural Interface System for Persons with Tetraplegia (Massachusetts General Hospital)
- Implanted Myoelectric Control for Restoration of Hand Function in Spinal Cord Injury (MetroHealth Medical Center)
NIH-Sponsored Research
- Clinical Demonstration of Implantable Myoelectric Sensors for Prosthesis Control (University of Colorado Denver)
- Cortical Control of an Assistive Robotic Arm (Brown University)
- Model-Based Training for BCI Rehabilitation (University of Pittsburgh)
- Multigrasp Myoelectric Control of a Hand Prosthesis, and Assessment of Efficacy (Vanderbilt University)
- Targeted Reinnervation and Pattern-Recognition Control for Transradial Amputees (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago)