Feasibility of the BrainGate2 Neural Interface System in Persons With Tetraplegia (BG-Speech-02) (BG-Speech-02)

November 26, 2025 updated by: Leigh R. Hochberg, MD, PhD.

Understanding and Restoring Speech Production Using an Intracortical Brain-computer Interface

The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of speech production, and to translate this into medical devices called intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) that will enable people who have lost the ability to speak fluently to communicate via a computer just by trying to speak.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The goal is to develop a new way to help people who lose the ability to speak due to neurological conditions including ALS or stroke, using an implanted medical device called a "brain-computer interface". The implanted medical device measures the person's brain activity as they try to talk and outputs their intended speech. By bypassing the injured parts of the nervous system this way, we can observe how individual brain cells are involved in speaking and working together as a network, to produce speech, and we can learn to decipher this activity to output what the person is trying to say.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

2

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

  • United States
    • California
      • Sacramento, California, United States, 95817
        • Recruiting
        • University of California, Davis
        • Contact:
        • Contact:

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Between 18 and 80 years of age
  • Clinical diagnosis of spinal cord injury, brainstem stroke, muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or other motor neuron disorders
  • Complete or incomplete tetraplegia (quadriplegia)
  • Must live within a three-hour drive of the Study site and geographically stable for at least 15 months after enrollment.

(There are additional inclusion criteria)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Visual impairment such that extended viewing of a computer monitor would be difficult even with ordinary corrective lenses
  • Chronic oral or intravenous steroids or immunosuppressive therapy
  • Other serious disease or disorder that could seriously affect ability to participate in the study

(There are additional exclusion criteria)

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Other
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: BrainGate Neural Interface System
Placement of the BrainGate2 sensor(s) into the speech-related cortex
Device: BrainGate Neural Interface System
Placement of the BrainGate2 sensor(s) into the speech-related cortex

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Sensor implant duration for at least one-year without any device-related Serious Adverse Events or explant
Time Frame: 1 year

To determine the safety of the Sensor and overall safety of the System. Participants will be considered a success for this safety measure if they are successfully implanted with the Sensor(s) and:

  1. the sensors are not explanted for safety reasons during the one-year post-implant evaluation period.
  2. there are no device-related Serious Adverse Events that result in death or permanently increased disability during the one-year post-implant evaluation period.
1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Decoded speech output accuracy
Time Frame: At participant exit from study, or up to 5 years

The purpose of this feasibility measure is to define the metrics by which a larger trial of intracortical recording for the restoration of speech-based communication might be planned. The secondary endpoints are:

  • The word error rate of speech that is output by the System
  • The phoneme error rate of speech that is output by the System
At participant exit from study, or up to 5 years

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Leigh R. Hochberg, MD, PhD.

Collaborators

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sergey Stavisky, Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

October 16, 2023

Primary Completion (Estimated)

August 31, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

August 31, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 18, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 16, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

October 23, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

December 1, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 26, 2025

Last Verified

November 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2009p000505 (BG-Speech-02)
  • 1DP2DC021055 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

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