Takanori Tominaga

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Takanori Tominaga is a leading researcher in neurorehabilitation, specializing in brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) for stroke recovery. His work focuses on restoring motor function in patients with paralysis by leveraging neural signals such as event-related desynchronization (ERD) and mu band activity. Tominaga’s major contributions include the development of a BMI rehabilitation system that provides proprioceptive feedback when patients successfully generate motor-imagery-induced ERD, enhancing cortical plasticity and motor recovery. He also created the Digital Mirror Box (DMB), a physiologically congruent neurofeedback system that trains affected motor cortical activity in stroke patients with hand paralysis. His most-cited paper (2019, 14 citations) demonstrates the efficacy of combining ERD-based BMIs with proprioceptive feedback, while his 2018 work (6 citations) highlights the DMB’s potential for hand motor rehabilitation. Tominaga’s innovations bridge neuroscience and engineering, offering non-invasive, patient-specific solutions for motor impairment. His research has significant implications for clinical neurorehabilitation, providing scalable, feedback-driven therapies that promote neural reorganization and functional recovery.

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1. 1
   Development of a Brain-machine Interface for Stroke Rehabilitation Using Event-related Desynchronization and Proprioceptive Feedback

   14 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Hand Motor Rehabilitation of Patients with Stroke Using Physiologically Congruent Neurofeedback

   6 citations · 2018

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