BCIs and physical medicine and rehabilitation: the future is now.

The (critical) development of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) in the last two decades raised new hopes for disabled patients. In healthy persons, BCIs offer promising scopes for application in the field of entertainment or video gaming. Those commercial potential perspectives for applications in the digital industry explain a renewed interest in a subject until now highly confidential. Generally speaking, in medical applications, BCI involves:

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