Alex Silva
@asilvaalex1
MD/PhD candidate in the @ChangLabUcsf studying brain computer interface, speech, and epilepsy
Excited to share our recent work towards creating a high-performance and expressive neuroprosthesis for speech decoding! Grateful to work with such a great team! None of this would be possible without the dedication of our participants nature.com/articles/s4158…
Very excited to see our work on developing a bilingual speech neuroprosthesis out today in @natBME ! Thanks to our dedicated participant “Pancho” for making this happen! We put together a summary of the results below
Excited to share our work on developing a bilingual speech neuroprosthesis that decodes cortical activity into English and Spanish sentences in a person with paralysis. Out today in @natBME! nature.com/articles/s4155…
Our latest research on the neural basis of speech-motor sequencing is now published in @NatureHumBehav! Check out this high-level explainer video and read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4156…
New in @NatureHumBehav, @jessierliu, Lingyun Zhao, PhD & @ChangLabUCSF show that the middle precentral gyrus coordinates the muscle movements required to speak, challenging the longstanding view that Broca's area controls this process: nature.com/articles/s4156…
1/n) Our latest work is out today in @NatureNeuro! We developed a streaming “brain-to-voice” neuroprosthesis which restores naturalistic, fluent, intelligible speech to a person who has paralysis. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Momentary snapshots of hippocampal brain activity may provide daily seizure forecasts in epilepsy @UCSFEpilepsy, @NeurosurgUCSF, @ANKhambhati, @ChangLabUCSF #seizurecycles, #epilepsy nature.com/articles/s4159…
For the first time, a brain implant has helped a bilingual person who is unable to articulate words to communicate in both of his languages go.nature.com/3yA4SpK
Excited to share our review on progress towards a clinically viable speech neuroprosthesis! Thanks to @ChangLabUcsf and co-authors @KayloLittlejohn , @jessierliu , and @AtDavidMoses ! nature.com/articles/s4158…
Check out @sarah_wandelt study on imagined speech decoding from Utah array's in SMG: nature.com/articles/s4156…
Big thanks to my mentor Dr. Chang and @AANSNeuro for the chance to present our work on speech brain-computer interfaces! Great to meet more of the neurosurgery community #AANS2024
.@ChangLabUcsf member @asilvaalex1 presenting on the use of brain computer interfaces to restore speech in people with paralysis. #AANS2024 #WhatMatters2Me
ecstatic to see this paper out! made possible through extraordinary teamwork, and special co-first duo with @matt_k_leonard. an astounding first insight into what Neuropixels can tell us about neural computation in human cortex, in support of language processing
We’re excited about our first paper looking at speech encoding in single neurons across the depth of human cortex. Out today in @nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… [1/6]
Our work on decoding speech using high-density micro-scale recordings was published today in @NatureComms! We demonstrate the potential of high-spatial sampling technology for future neural speech prostheses. nature.com/articles/s4146… The thread below outlines our main findings.
Excited to share recent work with @UCSFepilepsy as well as the Kleen and Chang labs! We found that interictal discharges form a convergent basis for word-finding difficulty in patients with epilepsy doi.org/10.1111/epi.17…
Our new study on decoding navigational features from hippocampal recordings just appeared online: nature.com/articles/s4159…
🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking w/ @UCSF_BTS's Alex Silva & @UCBerkeleyNeuro's Robert Knight about the promise of neuroprosthetics. ❓ What are your questions about the future of brain-computer interfaces? 📻 Listen: kqed.org/forum/20101018…
Check out the two amazing speech BCI studies, in patients that are not able to speak anymore, published in @Nature today: nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/s4158… These studies really push the state of the art and bring clear benefit to patients. What an exciting time!