[seminar] Tomislav Mileković (Tue 21th Mar, 11:00h, F-201)

[Ivica Smolic]

Dear colleagues,

allow me to remind you about the seminar


Dr. Tomislav Mileković
(EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

"Neuroprosthetic technologies to restore movement and communication of 
people with paralysis"

Tuesday 21st March, 11:00h, F-201

Paralysis has a severe impact on a patient's quality of life and entails 
a high emotional burden and life-long social and financial costs. 
Restoring movement and independence for people with the most severe 
forms of paralysis remains a challenging clinical problem, currently 
with no viable solution. Recent demonstrations of brain-computer 
interfaces, neuroprosthetic devices that create a link between a person 
and a computer based on a person's brain activity, have brought hope to 
millions of people with paralysis for their potential to restore 
movement and communication. While the brain-computer interfaces have 
steadily improved over the last four decades, recent success in linking 
brain activity with the newly developed techniques for spinal cord 
stimulation look to revolutionize locomotor rehabilitation. New 
approaches in designing neural decoding algorithms, which transform 
neural signals into computer commands, aim to deliver both stable and 
accurate control over clinically relevant periods of several months. 
Preliminary clinical studies suggest that these concepts and 
technologies are directly translatable to therapeutic strategies for 
people with paralysis.


Best regards,
Ivica Smolić

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