We have successfully demonstrated that learning to use a cortically-controlled BMI to perform a complex, sequential task is possible in chronically amputated animals. This is significant as it is known that the motor cortex undergoes reorganization following amputation and thus has clinical implications for human amputees17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26. We have also demonstrated here the possibility of using ipsilateral cortex of a chronic amputee to successfully perform a BMI task and compared the dynamics of its plastic changes with contralateral networks. This has implications on developing BMIs for lateralized cortical deficit, where neural plasticity is required to accommodate movement control of both BMI and intact arm within a single hemisphere.
Neural adaptation with BMI exposure has shown single cell plasticity including changes in the tuning properties of individual neurons7, 8, 29. Synchrony in a specific bandwidth of neural oscillations has also been shown to increase with BMI exposure9. Likewise, with operant conditioning of a neuroprosthetic device, the coherence between neural activity in M1 and dorsal striatum has been shown to increase30. It was previously argued that plasticity at the subcortical levels is necessary to learn neuroprosthetic skills31. However, further studies would be needed to establish whether subcortical plasticity is critical also for chronic amputees acquiring neuroprosthetic skills and whether such plasticity have any causal influence on the cortical plasticity.
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Decoder B. While Decoder A is more suitable for unilateral amputees capable of moving the ipsilateral arm, an unsupervised approach47 based on resting-state neural activity was tested that completely relaxes any requirement of motor behavior. This decoder uses spontaneous neural activity characteristics to estimate the decoder coefficients. Tap weights were sampled from a multivariate Gaussian generative model space denoted by,
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