Main description:

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art of practical applications of neuroprosthesis based on functional electrical stimulation for restoration of motor functions lost by spinal cord injury and discusses the use of brain-computer interfaces for their control.

The book covers numerous topics starting with basics about spinal cord injury, electrical stimulation, electrical brain signals and brain-computer interfaces. It continues with an overview of neuroprosthetic solutions for different purposes and non-invasive and invasive brain-computer interface implementations and presents clinical use cases and practical applications of BCIs. Finally, the authors give an outlook on cutting edge research with a high potential for clinical translation in the near future.

All authors committed themselves to use easy-to-understand language and to avoid very specific information, focusing instead on the essential aspects. This makes this book an ideal choice not only for researchers and clinicians at all stages of their education interested in the topic of brain-computer interface-controlled neuroprostheses, but also for end users and their caregivers who want to inform themselves about the current technological possibilities to improve paralyzed motor functions.

Contents:

Part I - BasicsChapter 1 - Spinal Cord injury Chapter 2 - Functional Electrical Stimulation Chapter 3 - Electroencephalography and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Part II - Neuroprosthetics in SCIChapter 4 - History of Neuroprosthetics Chapter 5 - Upper Extremity Neuroprosthetics for Spinal Cord InjuryChapter 6 - Neuro-Robotics: Rehabilitation and Restoration of Walking using Exoskeletons via Noninvasive Brain Machine InterfacesChaoter 7 - Epidural and transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation strategies for motor recovery after spinal cord injury
Part III - Clinical Brain Computer InterfacesChapter 8 - P300 BCI for persons with spinal cord injury - a BCI search of an application?Chapter 9 - Invasive BCI approaches for restoration of upper extremity movementsChapter 10 - Towards non-invasive BCIs based for movement decoding
Part IV - Clinical use cases and practiceChapter 11 - Therapeutic applications of Electrical Stimulation in Spinal Cord InjuryChapter 12 - Brain Computer Interface Controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation for Rehabilitation of Hand Function in People with Spinal Cord InjuryChapter 13 - Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces for control of grasp neuroprosthesis - The European MoreGrasp Initiative
Part V - OutlookChapter 14 - Therapies of the future