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Dear colleagues,<br>
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I would like to invite you to the following seminar,<br>
<br>
Dr. Tomislav Mileković<br>
(EPFL, <span style=" color:#000000;">Lausanne, Switzerland</span>)<br>
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"Neuroprosthetic technologies to restore <span style="
color:#000000;">movement and communication of </span><span
style=" color:#000000;">people with paralysis"<br>
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Tuesday 21st March, 11:00h, F-201<br>
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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.<br>
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<span style=" color:#000000;">Best regards,<br>
Ivica Smolić<br>
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