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BRAIN ACTUATED SPINAL CORD STIMULATION TO RESTORE GAIT AFTER PARALYSIS
Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to severe motor impairments that significantly alter the quality of life of affected people and incur substantial cost for families and society. The ideas developed within the framework of our ERC st... Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to severe motor impairments that significantly alter the quality of life of affected people and incur substantial cost for families and society. The ideas developed within the framework of our ERC starting and Consolidator grants led to the development of neurotechnologies that restored walking in paralyzed individuals. This treatment involves the delivery of targeted electrical spinal cord stimulation protocols that reactivate the spinal cord below the injury and amplify the residual commands from the brain. Crucial to the recovery of voluntary movements is the temporal coincidence between the location of the stimulation and the residual command from the brain. To achieve a perfect synchronization, we directly linked decoding of motor intention from brain recordings to the modulation of spinal cord stimulation protocols. We validated the therapeutic efficacy of this wireless brain-spine interface in a nonhuman primate model of SCI. Here, we aim to establish the technical and regulatory feasibility of this wireless brain-spine interface in humans, develop additional intellectual property, and prepare the path to the commercialization of this revolutionary neurotechnology. ver más
31/08/2021
EPFL
150K€
Duración del proyecto: 21 meses Fecha Inicio: 2019-11-27
Fecha Fin: 2021-08-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2021-08-31
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-2019-POC: ERC Proof of Concept Grant
Cerrada hace 5 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 150K€
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ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Perfil tecnológico TRL 4-5