A consortium of clinicians, scientists, and engineers developing brain-computer interfaces to restore movement and communication for people with paralysis
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Wonderful Science News story and podcast on human voice and implantable #iBCI, featuring BrainGate PIs and alums @neuroleigh @SergeyStavisky @DrDavidBrandman @matthew_willsey Vikash Gilja, and others.
@MGH_CNTR @MGHNeurology
@ucdavis
@VAResearch
@brownengin @CarneyInstitute
An excellent long article in @ScienceMagazine about our speech brain-computer interface work and the growing industry efforts to bring this to many more patients:
sciencenews.org/article/brai…
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I’m excited to share that one of the manuscripts from my PhD work, “Observation-Related Activity in the Human Motor Cortex Increases with Effector Anthropomorphicity,” is now published in @PNASNews. (1/12)
Link: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
#NeuroTech #BCI @BrainGateTeam
Congrats to @JakeGusman, Carlos Vargas-Irwin, @neuroleigh, et al. on their publication in @PNASNews , “Observation-related activity in the human motor cortex increases with effector anthropomorphicity”!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
@brownengin
@MGH_CNTR
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#BCI #neuro
Congrats to Mattia Rigotti,@chethan, Nicholas Au Yong, et al, on their paper in @CurrentBiology "Preparatory encoding of intended movement in the human motor cortex and implications for brain-computer interfaces" @CoulterBME @EmoryMedicine #BCI #neurotech cell.com/current-biology/ful…
Congrats to Darrel Deo @WillettNeuro @JaimieHenderson @neuroleigh et al. on their new Nature paper, "A mosaic of whole-body representations on the human precentral gyrus," including data from six BrainGate participants + two from @RNELabs and UChicago!
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Congrats to @NS_Card @DrDavidBrandman @SergeyStavisky @neuroleigh et al. for their publication in Nature Medicine, “Long-term independent use of an intracortical brain–computer interface for speech and cursor control”!
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nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
This is now published in @NatureMedicine!
Check out this "behind the paper" blogpost, co-written by participant T15 and I, about how this paper came together and how he uses the BCI in his daily life: go.nature.com/3SgxMEZ
We’re so excited to welcome @BCMNeurosurgery and @RiceNeuro to the BrainGate consortium!
@SameerShethMD @NicoleProvenza #NishalShah #Neurotech #BCI
bcm.edu/news/clinical-trial-…
Rice and Baylor College of Medicine are joining the @BrainGateTeam consortium to develop brain-controlled robotic assistive devices that could help people with tetraplegia eat and drink independently. #BCI #Neurotech
Find out more: news.rice.edu/news/2026/clin…
ALT AI-generated image of man seated at table and eating assisted by robotic arm controlled via brain-computer interface technology, with a woman caregiver observing
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Another brain-computer interface record set in the published record: fastest communication based on hand movements (typing in this case): nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
Congrats Justin and the rest of the @BrainGateTeam!
Congratulations to @BrainGateTeam founder and mentor John Donoghue, PhD @BrownUniversity on being awarded the 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his pioneering work on #BCI ! @brownengin @CarneyInstitute @Brown_BME
brown.edu/news/2026-02-03/do…
Congrats to @neuroleigh and our team at @ucdavis: @SergeyStavisky, @Maitreyee_W, @NS_Card, @DrDavidBrandman, et al., whose speech intracortical brain-computer interface has been recognized as a milestone in neurology by the American Neurological Association @TheNewANA1 !
Congrats @BrainGateTeam -mates Erin Kunz @pearlsandpython for winning 1st place, Justin Jude @Justin_Jude for winning 2nd place, and Maarten Ottenhoff @MC_Ottenhoff and Anna Pritchard for placing in top 12 of 90 submissions of the #BCIAward2025 !
bci-award.com/2025
🎉 Announcing the 1st Place Winner of the #BCIAward2025! 🏆
Congrats to Erin Kunz and team for their groundbreaking work in brain–computer interface tech!
Learn more about all nominated projects 👉 bci-award.com
#Neurotechnology #Innovation #TechForGood
Congrats to Vargas-Irwin et al.! Motor cortex single unit activity from 2 participants with spinal cord injury enabled ~70% accurate decoding of 48 hand gestures (∼90% for sets of 10). Findings support rich, intuitive control for BCIs. #Neurotech #BCI
nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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Our brain-to-voice synthesis brain-computer interface paper was published in @Nature today! This neuroprosthesis synthesized the voice of a man with ALS instantaneously, enabling him to ‘speak’ flexibly and modulate the prosody of his BCI-voice. 1/7
Paper: rdcu.be/eqH3C
Congrats to @Maitreyee_W @NS_Card Tyler Singer-Clark, Xianda Hou, @ca_rrina Lee Miller @neuroleigh @DrDavidBrandman and @SergeyStavisky for this incredible brain-to-voice BCI project:
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
@ucdavis @UCDavisHealth @MGHNeurology @MGH_CNTR @brownengin
A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly.
go.nature.com/4mXv8yM
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I’m excited to share that one of the manuscripts from my PhD work, “Multi-gesture drag-and-drop decoding in a 2D iBCI control task”, has been published in the Journal of Neural Engineering (1/9)
Link: doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ad…
#NeuroTech #BCI @BrainGateTeam @IOPPublishing
Congrats to @DrDavidBrandman and our teammates at the @ucdavis Neuroprosthetics Lab for winning the @CRForumUS Herbert Pardes Clinical Research Excellence Award for their groundbreaking work enabling a man with #ALS to communicate via a speech #iBCI!
clinicalresearchforum.org/ne…
This prestigious national award celebrates excellence in clinical research that transforms lives—and Dr. Brandman’s work is a shining example. 👏
#ClinicalResearch #Neuroscience #ALS #Innovation #UCDavis #Health #HerbertPardesAward #TranslationalScience
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I’m excited to present our new preprint!
An intuitive, bimanual, high-throughput QWERTY touch typing neuroprosthesis for people with tetraplegia.
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Congrats to @BrainGateTeam-mates at @UCDavis as well as our incredible clinical trial participant and his family for their feature in @BrainPrize's film: "Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine" vimeo.com/1064311069 (22:50)
We are honored to have been awarded the 2024 Sean M. Healey International Prize for Innovation in #ALS at #alsmndsymp for our team effort to develop brain-computer interfaces for restoring fast, intuitive, and accurate communication for people living with ALS. (1/3)
Read more at: massgeneral.org/neurology/al…
The prize was awarded to BrainGate PIs @neuroleigh, Nick Au Yong, @DrDavidBrandman, Syd Cash, John Donoghue, @JaimieHenderson, @chethan, Dan Rubin, @JohnSimeral, @SergeyStavisky, @WillettNeuro, @zivwilliamslab (2/3)
Congrats to the entire BrainGate team at:
@MGH_CNTR @MGHNeurology @MGHNeuroICU @MGHNeuroSci @brownengin @CarneyInstitute @Brown_BME @VAResearch @ucdavis @stanford @EmoryUniversity (3/3)