@Sam_R_Nason, with Parag G Patil, MD PhD and Cynthia Chestek, discusses brain-controlled functional electrical stimulation to restore finger movements #SfN2022 U-M BME Michigan Neurosurgery

Happy to introduce our new study in Nature Communications out of Cynthia Chestek showing high-velocity, simultaneous movements of two finger groups using a temporally-convolved, shallow-layer feedforward neural network. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Thanks for this amazing opportunity. We hope it will provide useful information for the scientists working on this topic #bionics #neuroprosthetics #hand #neuroscience

🚀 Excited to share highlights from our recent paper accepted at #NeurIPS2024! We implemented KalmanNet, a powerful new decoder for brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) that combines the best of deep learning and explainability to predict finger movements from brain activity. 🧠🧵👇

Great talk by recent PhD graduate, Matt Mender, presenting on restoration of simultaneous wrist and finger movements with a #BCI and functional electrical stimulation. Cynthia Chestek Michigan Neuroscience Institute (MNI) 〽️🧠 Michigan Neurosurgery #SFN24 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Delighted to announce that the FDA has granted us approval for an IDE that allows chronic implantation of Blackrock Neurotech arrays for investigational use. Eager to advance our iBCI research at University of Michigan. Details forthcoming Michigan Neurosurgery U-M BME Michigan Research Michigan Engineering

We survived the Dexter to Ann Arbor half marathon! Super proud of our team. The average pace for the lab was 7:29 min/mi despite my best efforts to slow it down.

Great partnership with Paradromics Inc. and the team at Michigan Medicine and Michigan Engineering Thank you Oren Sagher, Jordan Lam, MBBS Joey Costello Matt Mender Arushi Tripathy, Enrico Opri, Bill Stacey, Stephanie Jones, Ron Ball Special thanks to Aditya S. Pandey for his support on day 1!

.Matt Mender at BCI Society showing how nonlinear dynamical systems can be used to understand latent manifolds in finger movements and how these insights could advance our decoding systems. Great Job!

Join us June 19 for neurosurgery grand rounds, Taubman 3898 (neurosurg conference room): 7AM: C. Chestek on carbon fiber electrodes & FES 8AM: I present brain-controlled quadcopter & human BCI research. Hybrid Zoom Option: medresearch.umich.edu/events/using-i…