Understanding and Restoring Speech Production Using an Intracortical Brain-computer Interface
Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Device
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of speech production, and to translate this into medical devices called intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) that will enable people who have lost the ability to speak fluently to communicate via a computer just by trying to speak.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 80
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Between 18 and 80 years of age
• Clinical diagnosis of spinal cord injury, brainstem stroke, muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or other motor neuron disorders
• Complete or incomplete tetraplegia (quadriplegia)
• Must live within a three-hour drive of the Study site and geographically stable for at least 15 months after enrollment.
⁃ (There are additional inclusion criteria)
Locations
United States
California
University of California, Davis
RECRUITING
Sacramento
Contact Information
Primary
Leigh R. Hochberg, M.D., Ph.D.
lhochberg@mgh.harvard.edu
617-724-9247
Backup
Sergey Stavisky, Ph.D.
sstavisky@ucdavis.edu
530-754-3413
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-10-16
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-08-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 2
Treatments
Experimental: BrainGate Neural Interface System
Placement of the BrainGate2 sensor(s) into the speech-related cortex
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Leads: Leigh R. Hochberg, MD, PhD.