Table 1.

Demographic data and illness parameters of participants, and type of BCI used for training.

Participant	Age	Sex	ALS type	Time since diagnosis	Artificial		Type of BCI training
					Nutrition	Ventilation	SMR	P300
A	67	M	Bulbar	17 months	Yes	No	x	x
B	47	F	Spinal	2 years	Yes	Yes	x	x
C	56	M	Spinal	9 months	Yes	Yes	x
D	53	M	Spinal	4 years	No	No	x	x
E	39	M	Spinal	3 years	Yes	No		x
F	49	F	Spinal	1 year	No	No		x
G	36	F	Spinal	8 years	No	No		x
H	46	M	Spinal	10 years	Yes	Yes

Three participants entered in both studies. Artificial nutrition refers to the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) and artificial ventilation was invasive by means of tracheostoma. Time since diagnosis was calculated from the date of diagnosis to the first day of BCI training.