Krishna Shenoy

Tuesday 26th of June 2018

Time:4.00pm

Ground Floor Seminar Room

25 Howland Street, London, W1T 4JG

Brain machine interfaces: from basic science and engineering to clinical trials

Millions of people worldwide suffer from neurological disease and injury leading to paralysis, which is often so severe that people are unable to feed themselves or communicate. Cortically-controlled brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) aim to restore some of this lost function by converting neural activity from the brain into control signals for prosthetic devices. I will describe some of our group’s recent investigations into basic motor neurophysiology focused on understanding neural population dynamics, pre-clinical BMIs focused on high-performance control algorithm design, and translational BMI development and pilot clinical trial results focused on helping establish clinical viability.