BCI training to move a virtual hand reduces phantom limb pain: A randomized crossover trial.

Journal: Neurology
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether training with a brain-computer interface (BCI) to control an image of a phantom hand, which moves based on cortical currents estimated from magnetoencephalographic signals, reduces phantom limb pain.

Authors

  • Takufumi Yanagisawa
    Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
  • Ryohei Fukuma
    Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
  • Ben Seymour
    Computational and Biological Learning Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.
  • Masataka Tanaka
    Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.
  • Koichi Hosomi
    Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
  • Okito Yamashita
    From the Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies (T.Y.), Osaka University; Departments of Neurosurgery (T.Y., R.F., M.T., K.H., H.K., Y.S.) and Neuromodulation and Neurosurgery (K.H., Y.S.), Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine; Department of Neuroinformatics (T.Y., R.F., Y.K.), ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan; Computational and Biological Learning Laboratory, Department of Engineering (B.S.), University of Cambridge, UK; Center for Information and Neural Networks (B.S.), National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Osaka; RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (O.Y.), Tokyo; Department of Computational Brain Imaging (O.Y.), ATR Neural Information Analysis Laboratories, Kyoto; and Graduate School of Informatics (Y.K.), Kyoto University, Japan.
  • Haruhiko Kishima
    Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
  • Yukiyasu Kamitani
    Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
  • Youichi Saitoh
    Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.