A brain-computer interface tool to assess cognitive functions in completely paralyzed patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2214-2223

  Iversen, I H ^a   Ghanayim, N ^b   Kubler A ^c   Neumann, N ^b   Birbaumer, N ^b,d   J Kaiser, ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d Fondazione Ospedale San Camillo IRCCS   (Italy)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Brain computer interface (BCI); Cognitive assessment; Locked in syndrome; Short term memory; Slow cortical potentials (SCP)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; REACTION TIME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 52949153957     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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