Brain-Computer Interfaces

This handbook offers a comprehensive journey through the realms of Brain-Computer Interfacing, where brain signals are directly converted to actions. The structure of the book and the carefully selected topics together give the reader a clear understanding of what BCI science is currently offering the clinic, and what can realistically be expected to be available to clinicians for restoring lost brain function in their patients, in the near and farther future. In-depth technological chapters are aimed at those interested in the BCI technologies and the nature of brain signals, while more comprehensive summaries are provided in the more applied chapters. Readers will be able to grasp BCI concepts and understand what needs the technologies can meet and who stands to benefit from BCI. Critical appraisals of the various concepts and technologies enable readers to form an informed opinion on what BCI can and cannot accomplish in patients, and which BCI concepts will remain or perish.

• Explores how many different causes of disability have similar functional consequences (loss of mobility, communication etc.), even if different neurological mechanisms are at play, and addresses how BCI can be of use
• Presents a multidisciplinary review of BCI technologies and the opportunities they provide for people in need of a new kind of prosthetics to compensate for lost abilities due to trauma, neurodegeneration or, eventually, stroke
• Offers a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary review of BCI for researchers in neuroscience and traumatic brain injury as well as clinicians in neurology and neurosurgery