Papers
6
Total Citations
121
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About
Yukiyasu Kamitani is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), sensorimotor neuroscience, and pain management, with a particular focus on phantom limb pain and cortical plasticity. His most influential work, "Induced sensorimotor brain plasticity controls pain in phantom limb patients" (2016, 79 citations), challenged prevailing assumptions about maladaptive cortical reorganization, demonstrating that deliberately inducing further sensorimotor plasticity could actually alleviate chronic phantom limb pain — a finding that reframed therapeutic approaches to deafferentation-related conditions. Building on this foundation, Kamitani has systematically advanced BMI-driven robotic prosthetics as tools not only for motor restoration but for actively reshaping cortical representations. His research into MEG-based BMI systems for brachial plexus root avulsion patients reflects a commitment to translating neuroscientific insight into clinical solutions for intractable neuropathic pain. His earlier work on fully implantable wireless BMI systems (2012) laid important groundwork for real-time, minimally invasive neural control technologies. Across his body of work, Kamitani has demonstrated that the boundary between rehabilitation engineering and neuroscience therapeutics is productively blurred — an insight increasingly recognized by the broader research community.
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Top Papers
- 1Induced sensorimotor brain plasticity controls pain in phantom limb patients79 citations · 2016
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- 3MEG–BMI to Control Phantom Limb Pain11 citations · 2018
- 4Using a BCI Prosthetic Hand to Control Phantom Limb Pain10 citations · 2019
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