Reconnecting the Hand and Arm to the Brain (ReHAB): Bi-directional neuroprostheses for sensorimotor functional restoration

Where

Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building (BIO5), Room 103
1657 E. Helen St., Tucson, AZ 85719

Event Description

The UArizona BME department is honored to welcome guest seminar speaker A. Bolu Ajiboye, PhD. Ajiboye is the Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, and also holds an appointment as a biomedical engineering scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.

Ajiboye's lecture is titled, "Reconnecting the Hand and Arm to the Brain (ReHAB): Bi-directional neuroprostheses for sensorimotor functional restoration."

This lecture will discuss several of our clinical, technological and scientific advances towards developing a bi-directional brain-machine interface controlled functional electrical stimulation arm neuroprosthesis for restoring motor and somatosensory function. The highlight of this lecture will be the demonstration of a current ReHAB participant, an individual with chronic tetraplegia, eight years post-injury using a multi-nodal BMI with multi-contact FES nerve cuff electrodes to volitionally and independently perform functional tasks, such as self-feeding and shaking hands, and discerning somatosensory feedback through intracortical microstimulation.