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Dear colleagues,<br>
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allow me to remind you about the seminar<br>
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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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