Abstract
This study aimed to design a neural interface that extracts movement commands from the brain to generate appropriate intra-spinal stimulation to restore leg movement. This study comprised four steps: (1) Recording electrocorticographic (ECoG) signals and corresponding leg movements in different trials. (2) Partial laminectomy to induce spinal cord injury (SCI) and detect motor modules in the spinal cord. (3) Delivering appropriate intra-spinal stimulation to the motor modules for restoration of the movements to those documented before SCI. (4) Development of a neural interface created by sparse linear regression (SLiR) model to detect movement commands transmitted from the brain to the modules. Correlation coefficient (CC) and normalized root mean square (NRMS) error was calculated to evaluate the neural interface effectiveness. It was found that by stimulating detected spinal cord modules, joint angle evaluated before SCI was not significantly different from that of post-SCI (P > 0.05). Based on results of SLiR model, overall CC and NRMS values were 0.63 ± 0.14 and 0.34 ± 0.16 (mean ± SD), respectively. These results indicated that ECoG data contained information about intra-spinal stimulations and the developed neural interface could produce intra-spinal stimulation based on ECoG data, for restoration of leg movements after SCI.
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