Clinical trial NCT01997125: Reanimation in Tetraplegia
Official title: Reanimation in Tetraplegia: Restoring Cortical Control of Functional Movement in Humans With Quadriplegia
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Spinal Cord Injury (Quadraplegia)
Lead sponsor: Ohio State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2013-11-27
Enrollment: 1
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 89
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this clinical study is to allow the investigation of the Neural Bridging System for participants with tetraplegia to assess if the investigational device can reanimate a paralyzed limb under voluntary control by the participant's thoughts.

Detailed description: This study plans to enroll participants who have been diagnosed with C4- C6 ASIA A spinal cord injuries (motor and sensory complete neurologic injuries), who are more than 1 year post injury, and who are neurologically stable.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Must be 21 years or older.
* Must be tetraplegic (C4- C6 ASIA A).
* 12 months post injury and neurologically stable.
* Participant is willing to comply with all follow-up evaluations at the specified times.
* Participant is able to provide informed consent prior to enrollment in the study.
* The participant is fluent in English.
* Participant must have a caregiver willing to participate in the study who will provide care for the surgical site.

Exclusion Criteria:

* No active wound healing or skin breakdown issues.
* No history of poorly controlled autonomic dysreflexia.
* Medical contraindications for general anesthesia, craniotomy, or surgery.
* Diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction or cardiac arrest within previous 6 months.
* Participants with any type of destruction and/or damage to the motor cortex region as determined by MRI.
* History of psychiatric disturbance or dementia
* Other implantable devices such as heart/brain pacemakers
* Participants who rely on ventilators
* Co-morbid conditions that would interfere with study activities or response to treatment.
* History of a neurological ablation procedure.
* Labeled contraindication for MRI.
* History of hemorrhagic stroke.
* History of HIV infection or ongoing chronic infection (such as tuberculosis).
* Pregnant or of child-bearing potential and are not taking acceptable methods of contraception.
* Participation in another FDA device or medication trial that would interfere with the current study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants With Voluntary Movement
timeFrame: 9 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Columbus
country: United States
facility: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center - Center for Neuromodulation
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: Ohio State University
name: Marcia Bockbrader, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Bouton CE, Shaikhouni A, Annetta NV, Bockbrader MA, Friedenberg DA, Nielson DM, Sharma G, Sederberg PB, Glenn BC, Mysiw WJ, Morgan AG, Deogaonkar M, Rezai AR. Restoring cortical control of functional movement in a human with quadriplegia. Nature. 2016 May 12;533(7602):247-50. doi: 10.1038/nature17435. Epub 2016 Apr 13.
citation: Sharma G, Friedenberg DA, Annetta N, Glenn B, Bockbrader M, Majstorovic C, Domas S, Mysiw WJ, Rezai A, Bouton C. Using an Artificial Neural Bypass to Restore Cortical Control of Rhythmic Movements in a Human with Quadriplegia. Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 23;6:33807. doi: 10.1038/srep33807.
citation: Friedenberg DA, Bouton CE, Annetta NV, Skomrock N, Mingming Zhang, Schwemmer M, Bockbrader MA, Mysiw WJ, Rezai AR, Bresler HS, Sharma G. Big data challenges in decoding cortical activity in a human with quadriplegia to inform a brain computer interface. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug;2016:3084-3087. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591381.
citation: Friedenberg DA, Schwemmer MA, Landgraf AJ, Annetta NV, Bockbrader MA, Bouton CE, Zhang M, Rezai AR, Mysiw WJ, Bresler HS, Sharma G. Neuroprosthetic-enabled control of graded arm muscle contraction in a paralyzed human. Sci Rep. 2017 Aug 21;7(1):8386. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-08120-9.
citation: Colachis SC 4th, Bockbrader MA, Zhang M, Friedenberg DA, Annetta NV, Schwemmer MA, Skomrock ND, Mysiw WJ, Rezai AR, Bresler HS, Sharma G. Dexterous Control of Seven Functional Hand Movements Using Cortically-Controlled Transcutaneous Muscle Stimulation in a Person With Tetraplegia. Front Neurosci. 2018 Apr 4;12:208. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00208. eCollection 2018.
citation: Annetta NV, Friend J, Schimmoeller A, Buck VS, Friedenberg DA, Bouton CE, Bockbrader MA, Ganzer PD, Colachis Iv SC, Zhang M, Mysiw WJ, Rezai AR, Sharma G. A High Definition Noninvasive Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation System for Cortical Control of Combinatorial Rotary Hand Movements in a Human With Tetraplegia. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2019 Apr;66(4):910-919. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2018.2864104. Epub 2018 Aug 7.
citation: Schwemmer MA, Skomrock ND, Sederberg PB, Ting JE, Sharma G, Bockbrader MA, Friedenberg DA. Meeting brain-computer interface user performance expectations using a deep neural network decoding framework. Nat Med. 2018 Nov;24(11):1669-1676. doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0171-y. Epub 2018 Sep 24.
citation: Skomrock ND, Schwemmer MA, Ting JE, Trivedi HR, Sharma G, Bockbrader MA, Friedenberg DA. A Characterization of Brain-Computer Interface Performance Trade-Offs Using Support Vector Machines and Deep Neural Networks to Decode Movement Intent. Front Neurosci. 2018 Oct 24;12:763. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00763. eCollection 2018.
citation: Bockbrader M, Annetta N, Friedenberg D, Schwemmer M, Skomrock N, Colachis S 4th, Zhang M, Bouton C, Rezai A, Sharma G, Mysiw WJ. Clinically Significant Gains in Skillful Grasp Coordination by an Individual With Tetraplegia Using an Implanted Brain-Computer Interface With Forearm Transcutaneous Muscle Stimulation. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2019 Jul;100(7):1201-1217. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.07.445. Epub 2019 Mar 20.
citation: Colachis SC 4th, Dunlap CF, Annetta NV, Tamrakar SM, Bockbrader MA, Friedenberg DA. Long-term intracortical microelectrode array performance in a human: a 5 year retrospective analysis. J Neural Eng. 2021 Aug 23;18(4). doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac1add.
citation: Ganzer PD, Colachis SC 4th, Schwemmer MA, Friedenberg DA, Dunlap CF, Swiftney CE, Jacobowitz AF, Weber DJ, Bockbrader MA, Sharma G. Restoring the Sense of Touch Using a Sensorimotor Demultiplexing Neural Interface. Cell. 2020 May 14;181(4):763-773.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.054. Epub 2020 Apr 23.
citation: Zhang M, Schwemmer MA, Ting JE, Majstorovic CE, Friedenberg DA, Bockbrader MA, Jerry Mysiw W, Rezai AR, Annetta NV, Bouton CE, Bresler HS, Sharma G. Extracting wavelet based neural features from human intracortical recordings for neuroprosthetics applications. Bioelectron Med. 2018 Jul 31;4:11. doi: 10.1186/s42234-018-0011-x. eCollection 2018.