Possibility of Using Brain-computer Interface (BCI) Approach for Patients with Sever Neuromuscular Diseases

Abstract

The approach of current clinical practice that assisted communication was reconsidered in this report, and it proposed a new communication-assisted system by an electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interface (BCI). It was thought that it was extremely useful to apply the BCI technology from the consideration of positive study results by the EEG application in recent years to the communication support of sever neuromuscular disease person (child) and the high cervical spinal cord injury person. Moreover, it was thought that the offer of a realistic problem solution strategy was necessary in a grasp and a more immediate target of needs of an extremely difficult object person to communicate, and the introduction of the BCI system that considered an individual condition progress characteristic was extremely important when clinical was introduced. I think about study results of a rapidly advanced brain science field and neither the social cognition nor the understanding of the BCI technology are necessarily thought to be mature now at the time of be being applied to clinical practice immediately. It is thought that a more positive discussion and the verification with the society that accepts as the BCI application are greatly related to the development of the BCI technology in the future.