A direct spinal cord–computer interface enables the control of the paralysed hand in spinal cord injury

DS Oliveira, M Ponfick, DI Braun, M Osswald… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Paralysis of the muscles controlling the hand dramatically limits the quality of life for
individuals living with spinal cord injury (SCI). Here, with a non-invasive neural interface, we …

Proportional and simultaneous real-time control of the full human hand from high-density electromyography

RC Sîmpetru, M März… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a non-invasive technique that measures the electrical
activity generated by the muscles using sensors placed on the skin. It has been widely used …

Identification of Spared and Proportionally Controllable Hand Motor Dimensions in Motor Complete Spinal Cord Injuries Using Latent Manifold Analysis

RC Sîmpetru, DS De Oliveira, M Ponfick… - … on Neural Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The loss of bilateral hand function is a debilitating challenge for millions of individuals that
suffered a motor-complete spinal cord injury (SCI). We have recently demonstrated in eight …

The discharge characteristics of motor units innervating functionally paralyzed muscles

DSD Oliveira, M Carbonaro, BJ Raiteri… - Journal of …, 2025 - journals.physiology.org
For individuals with motor complete spinal cord injury (SCI), previous works have shown that
spared motor neurons below the injury level can still be voluntarily controlled. In this study …

NeurOne: High-performance Motor Unit-Computer Interface for the Paralyzed

DI Braun, D Souza de Oliveira, P Bayer, M Ponfick… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
We have recently demonstrated that humans with motor-and-sensory complete cervical
spinal cord injury (SCI) can modulate the activity of spared motor neurons that control the …

Simultaneous Control of Human Hand Joint Positions and Grip Force via HD-EMG and Deep Learning

F Rahimi, MA Badamchizadeh, RC Sîmpetru… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In myoelectric control, simultaneous control of multiple degrees of freedom can be
challenging due to the dexterity of the human hand. Numerous studies have focused on …