Cortical Bionics Research Group
@corticalbionics.bsky.social
Collaboration between University of Pittsburgh, University of Chicago and Northwestern researchers to develop a brain-computer interface for prosthetic arm and hand control with sensory feedback.
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Huge thanks to our generous sponsors — Blackrock Neurotech, Cleveland FES Center, Brain Products / Brain Vision, and CorTec — for supporting the BCI Society’s SfN Social 2025! Your partnership makes this special event possible.
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August 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Huge thanks to our generous sponsors — Blackrock Neurotech, Cleveland FES Center, Brain Products / Brain Vision, and CorTec — for supporting the BCI Society’s SfN Social 2025! Your partnership makes this special event possible.
Learn more: bcisociety.org/bci-social-a...
#BCISocial #SfN2025
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#BCISocial #SfN2025
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The BCI Society is excited to introduce a new, discounted membership for BCI users and their family members or caregivers.
See bcisociety.org/membership/ for details.
See bcisociety.org/membership/ for details.
August 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The BCI Society is excited to introduce a new, discounted membership for BCI users and their family members or caregivers.
See bcisociety.org/membership/ for details.
See bcisociety.org/membership/ for details.
The most recent CBRG preprint on intracortical microstimulation is now available! Over 24 combined years across 5 participants, we delivered 168 million!!! pulses of stimulation and recorded everything that happened.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Intracortical microstimulation in humans: a decade of safety and efficacy
Background Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of somatosensory cortex can restore a sense of touch to people with spinal cord injury (SCI). In this early-feasibility clinical trial, we evaluate the...
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August 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The most recent CBRG preprint on intracortical microstimulation is now available! Over 24 combined years across 5 participants, we delivered 168 million!!! pulses of stimulation and recorded everything that happened.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We had a great time at the @bcisociety.bsky.social meeting in Banff, Canada. We gathered almost all (@hunterschone.bsky.social?) the CBRG attendees (current and former) for the official photo.
@jenpitt.bsky.social @giacomovalle.bsky.social @johndowney.bsky.social @miskarous.bsky.social
@jenpitt.bsky.social @giacomovalle.bsky.social @johndowney.bsky.social @miskarous.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We had a great time at the @bcisociety.bsky.social meeting in Banff, Canada. We gathered almost all (@hunterschone.bsky.social?) the CBRG attendees (current and former) for the official photo.
@jenpitt.bsky.social @giacomovalle.bsky.social @johndowney.bsky.social @miskarous.bsky.social
@jenpitt.bsky.social @giacomovalle.bsky.social @johndowney.bsky.social @miskarous.bsky.social
Here’s our latest publication, from Ceci Verbaarschot and colleagues. In this study, participants controlled their own implanted BCI brain stimulation patterns to create customized sensations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Conveying tactile object characteristics through customized intracortical microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex - Nature Communications
In this study, three individuals with tetraplegia designed vivid, reliable and object-appropriate sensations with a variety of tactile characteristics using self-selected stimulus parameters that stim...
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May 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Here’s our latest publication, from Ceci Verbaarschot and colleagues. In this study, participants controlled their own implanted BCI brain stimulation patterns to create customized sensations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Check out @giacomovalle.bsky.social's summary of our new paper showing the details that we can convey to BCI users through spatio-temporally patterned stimulation in somatosensory cortex. This is a great step towards restoring natural sensation from future prosthetic hands.
New in @science.org our study "Tactile edges and motion via patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex". 🦾 🧠 ⚡
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Interesting related perspective by prof. Paul Marasco science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Interesting related perspective by prof. Paul Marasco science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Check out @giacomovalle.bsky.social's summary of our new paper showing the details that we can convey to BCI users through spatio-temporally patterned stimulation in somatosensory cortex. This is a great step towards restoring natural sensation from future prosthetic hands.
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Our paper examining the #ethical and #technical requirements in clinical trials for implantable neural prostheses is out in #LancetDigitalHealth today.
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Neural Bionics Lab Chalmers University of Technology @corticalbionics.bsky.social #neuroprosthetics
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Neural Bionics Lab Chalmers University of Technology @corticalbionics.bsky.social #neuroprosthetics
January 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Our paper examining the #ethical and #technical requirements in clinical trials for implantable neural prostheses is out in #LancetDigitalHealth today.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Neural Bionics Lab Chalmers University of Technology @corticalbionics.bsky.social #neuroprosthetics
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Neural Bionics Lab Chalmers University of Technology @corticalbionics.bsky.social #neuroprosthetics
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Our new publication in Human Brain Mapping is a roadmap to implanting stimulation electrodes to evoke tactile sensations on the fingers of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) users. We share the plan and results for 5 study participants across a decade at 2 sites.
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December 30, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Our new publication in Human Brain Mapping is a roadmap to implanting stimulation electrodes to evoke tactile sensations on the fingers of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) users. We share the plan and results for 5 study participants across a decade at 2 sites.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Marc Schieber has published his insightful thoughts on the below paper and where it fits in the broader efforts towards dexterous neuroprosthetic hands in Nature BME:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 19, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Marc Schieber has published his insightful thoughts on the below paper and where it fits in the broader efforts towards dexterous neuroprosthetic hands in Nature BME:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our group has a new paper out now in Nature BME, led by Charles Greenspon. It covers a number of updates on how we can restore tactile sensation from the hand using intracortical microstimulation (ICMS).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evoking stable and precise tactile sensations via multi-electrode intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex - Nature Biomedical Engineering
An analysis of the localization and intensity of intracortical microstimulation in three participants with cervical spinal cord injury shows that overlapping projected fields from multiple electrodes ...
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December 9, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Our group has a new paper out now in Nature BME, led by Charles Greenspon. It covers a number of updates on how we can restore tactile sensation from the hand using intracortical microstimulation (ICMS).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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There's a great new story out today in Nature about the state of sensory neuroprosthetic research. It features one of our participants from the University of Chicago and glimpses of exciting research from around the world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The quest to build bionic limbs that feel like the real thing
Through brain implants, neural interfaces and skin grafts, researchers are starting to restore sensation for paralysed or amputated limbs.
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November 12, 2024 at 4:02 PM
There's a great new story out today in Nature about the state of sensory neuroprosthetic research. It features one of our participants from the University of Chicago and glimpses of exciting research from around the world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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We are seeking a postdoc to work in sensorimotor neuroscience with brain-computer interfaces (BCI). The projects will focus on dexterous hand control through neural recordings and restoration of sensation to neural stimulation.
February 29, 2024 at 9:28 PM
We are seeking a postdoc to work in sensorimotor neuroscience with brain-computer interfaces (BCI). The projects will focus on dexterous hand control through neural recordings and restoration of sensation to neural stimulation.
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Check out our first paper, out today, from the Cortical Bionics Research Group's (@corticalbionics.bsky.social) multisite brain-computer interface (BCI) clinical trial for people with upper-limb paralysis at UChicago and @pitt.bsky.social . 1/9
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex evokes task-dependent, spatially patterned responses ...
Here the authors record the responses evoked in the hand and arm representations of M1 during intracortical microstimulation in the hand representation of S1, and show somatotopically organized connec...
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November 10, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Check out our first paper, out today, from the Cortical Bionics Research Group's (@corticalbionics.bsky.social) multisite brain-computer interface (BCI) clinical trial for people with upper-limb paralysis at UChicago and @pitt.bsky.social . 1/9
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...