Brain-computer interfaces: Communication and restoration of movement in paralysis

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 579, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 621-636

  Birbaumer, Niels ^a,b   Cohen, Leonardo G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMMUNICATION AID; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EPILEPSY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MICROELECTRODE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLION; BOLD SIGNAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HAND MOVEMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MICROPROCESSOR; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROCHIP; NEUROFEEDBACK; PSYCHOPATHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD LESION; THINKING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PARALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33947096471     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.125633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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