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- Brain-computer interfaces: barriers and opportunities to widespread clinical adoptionPublication . Neves, Diogo Filipe Vendeirinho; Martins, Henrique Manuel Gil; Calado, Maria do Rosário AlvesBrain-computer Interface (BCI) is an emerging neurotechnology with potential applications involving primarily neurological disorders. There is a rising interest in the use of BCI to address current unmet clinical needs from patients. Despite their therapeutic potential, BCI use is still mostly limited to research stages and its translation into mainstream clinical applications and widespread adoption is lagging. This study revises the current potential clinical applications of BCIs in humans, attempts to understand barriers and opportunities to wider clinical adoption and draws health policy and management implications of BCIs use in medical practice. The methodology followed a two-step approach which included a systematic review of potential clinical applications of BCIs and a qualitative study, using focus group method, to understand and integrate professionals’ experiences, perceptions, thoughts and feelings on the wide clinical adoption of BCIs. Focus groups included professionals from the medical, engineering and management field. BCI clinical applications with more clinical evidence include neurorehabilitation with non-invasive devices and the control of assistive devices with invasive BCIs. Nowadays, several barriers to wider clinical adoption of BCIs, including technological, seem addressable. However, systemic barriers from the health systems to innovation and technological interventions need a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to enhance their adoption. Professionals from medicine, engineering and management, working in collaboration in healthcare contexts, are some of the stakeholders important to change the current vision of healthcare towards innovation.