Roadmap of clinical application of invasive and nonivasive BMI in Japan
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Osaka University, Japan
Following preceding work of Dr. Kawato and Dr. Kansaku, governmental support for clinical application of BMI was accelerated in 2009 as a program of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT). The program was conducted by Dr. Kawato (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, ATR) in which Keio University (Drs. Liu and Ushiba) and Osaka University (Drs. Yoshimine and Hirata) participated as noninvasive and invasive BMI groups, respectively. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) (Dr. Suzuki), The University of Electro-Communications (Dr. Yokoi), National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities (NRCD) (Dr. Kansaku) and National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) (Dr. Nishimura) also joined to the invasive BMI group. Thus, the distinctive feature of the program is the coordination of many research fields of BMI including basic neuroscience, neurosurgery, rehabilitation, as well as information and robotic technologies. As an invasive BMI, a wired system using subdural electrodes was first applied to a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2013, who could operate a communication tool and a robotic hand by ECoG. Following the success in the first 5 years, the second stage of the program was started in 2013. In this year, the whole program is to be transferred to Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) of the Cabinet. The goal of the invasive BMI (Osaka University) is to start a clinical study with a fully-implantable, 120-channel wireless system by 2017-2018. As a noninvasive BMI, clinical application to promote communications in disabled patients is in progress (NRCD). Multi-institutional joint studies to evaluate the effect of BMI feedback on the rehabilitation of post-stroke patients are being conducted by Keio group. Another series of multi-institutional joint research is conducted by ATR group which aims to prove the clinical effects of BMI-Decoded Neurofeedback (DecNef) on various types of neuro-psychiatric disorders. The whole program of invasive and noninvasive BMI is tentatively expected to last until 2017-2018.
Conference:
2015 International Workshop on Clinical Brain-Machine Interfaces (CBMI2015), Tokyo, Japan, 13 Mar - 15 Mar, 2015.
Presentation Type:
Oral presentation / lecture
Topic:
Clinical Brain-Machine Interfaces
Citation:
Yoshimine
T
(2015). Roadmap of clinical application of invasive and nonivasive BMI in Japan.
Conference Abstract:
2015 International Workshop on Clinical Brain-Machine Interfaces (CBMI2015).
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2015.218.00018
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Received:
23 Apr 2015;
Published Online:
29 Apr 2015.
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Correspondence:
PhD. Toshiki Yoshimine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, yoshimine@nsurg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp