Brain-computer interfaces for treatment of focal dystonia

Simonyan, Kristina, Stefan Ehrlich, Richard Andersen, Jonathan Brumberg, Frank Guenther, Mark Hallett, Matthew Howard, et al. 2022. “Brain-Computer Interfaces for Treatment of Focal Dystonia”. Movement Disorders 37 (9): 1798-1802.

Abstract

Task-specificity in isolated focal dystonias is a powerful feature that may successfully be targeted with therapeutic brain-computer interfaces. While performing a symptomatic task, the patient actively modulates momentary brain activity (disorder signature) to match activity during an asymptomatic task (target signature), which is expected to translate into symptom reduction.
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