BEIJING: A team of Chinese scientists has discovered, during a clinical trial, that brain-computer interface (BCI) rehabilitation can significantly improve upper limb motor function in stroke patients.
BCI, or brain-computer interface, is a communication system that translates brain “ideas” into instructions. It has been effectively used in stroke rehabilitation.
Led by researchers from Beijing Tiantan Hospital under Capital Medical University, a 17-center clinical trial was conducted in China involving 296 patients with ischemic stroke. These patients were randomly assigned to receive either BCI or traditional rehabilitation training for one month.
The primary efficacy outcomes revealed that the score change from baseline in the BCI group was significantly higher than that in the control group, as detailed in a recent study published in the journal Cell Med.
According to a report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology on the development and application of brain-computer interface technology (2023), there are nearly 200 medical brain-computer interface enterprises in China. Among these, 25 percent work with implantable technology, while 75 percent focus on non-implantable technology.
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