UMC Utrecht, Ramsey Group
The Utrecht group of Nick Ramsey and Mariska Vansteensel behind a 2016 fully implanted ECoG communication system for a locked-in patient with ALS.
The 2016 NEJM paper lists Mariska J. Vansteensel as first author and Nick F. Ramsey as last author. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the University Medical Center Utrecht. The paper’s funding statement names the Government of the Netherlands and the European Union.
Cataloged hardware and applications
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Fully implanted ECoG BCI in locked-in ALS, 2016: subdural strips, a chest-implanted transmitter and home typing in one participant.
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Follow-up: two people with locked-in syndrome had subdural electrode strips over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the Utrecht NeuroProsthesis system, tracked over 47 and 22 months (Leinders et al., Scientific Reports 2020). Related: UMC Utrecht is a member institution of the Dutch Brain Interface Initiative, led from the Radboud Donders Institute.
Program claims versus study evidence
The sheet reports the paper’s numbers for one participant only. The implant combined Medtronic components certified for other uses; the paper says Medtronic supplied them free of charge to UMC Utrecht.
Not public or not verified
Department names, current studies, group size and later participants are not stated in the source used here.
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References, research and institutional reports.