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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Amcclanahan (talk | contribs) at 17:41, 28 October 2021 (Hi all! I am a WikiProject Medicine student with a research background in BCIs.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Former good articleBrain–computer interface was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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DateProcessResult
October 16, 2006Good article nomineeListed
October 21, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
July 24, 2008Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 March 2020 and 30 April 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Dispencer17 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Nduc5420.

Hi all! I am a WikiProject Medicine student with a research background in BCIs.

Hello, everyone! I am a medical student participating in a WikiProject Medicine course. My research background is in BCI/neurophysiology and I wanted to do my article edit on BCIs. This Wikipedia page entitled "brain-computer interface" will, I believe, gain more and more traction as the field continues to develop. It will be important for anyone researching BCIs, whether they be in medicine/science or not, to gain an understanding of the history, present, and future of this field.

Areas of this article that I plan to spruce up, in the form of additional information or citations, which lie closest to my realm of research, include:

  • 4.1 Invasive BCIs: Communication BCIs have a long history, and I would like to add the oft-cited communication metrics for BCIs (wpm, etc.), and important milestones in recent years, along with appropriate references. There has also been an emergence of interest in using BCIs for stroke rehabilitation, and I hope to add some detail about that here.
  • 4.2 Partially invasive BCIs: Many of the field's most recent successes have emerged from this area, in the realm of partially invasive BCIs. I think it would be of use to comment on various speech applications using ECoG, as well as more detail surrounding the use of interventional neurology to deliver devices to the brain, and expand on the benefits/drawbacks of this technique relative to other techniques. These benefits/drawbacks have been addressed in recent review articles and I wish to cite them here.
  • 4.3.3 Electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces: A few systematic reviews have been conducted assessing the utility of EEG-based BCIs in upper extremity rehabilitation post-stroke, which I plan to reference in this section.
  • 8 Future Directions: In regards to medical applications of BCIs, I'd like to cite the recently published FDA Guidance on BCIs. This has been proposed as a framework to guide groups attempting to use BCIs in medicine.

I think it would also be of use to include a section on technical limitations to BCIs, perhaps under the 'Human BCI research' header or in between headers 7 and 8. It would be of use to inform readers of electronic, materials, biological, and surgical limitations to implantable BCI systems. As these are currently active areas of engineering, it would be of use to inform the community about specific limitations that have held up the BCI transition to outside the laboratory setting.

Any feedback/collaboration on this would be welcomed!