Publications related to Friedreich's ataxia

Contrasting action and posture coding with hierarchical deep neural network models of proprioception

Alexander Mathis, Mackenzie Mathis, Kai Jappe Sandbrink, Matthias Bethge, Pranav Mamidanna

Biological motor control is versatile, efficient, and depends on proprioceptive feedback. Muscles are flexible and undergo continuous changes, requiring distributed adaptive control mechanisms that continuously account for the body's state. The canonical r ...

eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD2023

Electrical spinal cord stimulation must preserve proprioception to enable locomotion in humans with spinal cord injury

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Jocelyne Bloch, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Emanuele Formento, Karen Minassian, Andreas Rowald, Camille Georgette Marie Le Goff-Mignardot

Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the spinal cord restores locomotion in animal models of spinal cord injury but is less effective in humans. Here we hypothesized that this interspecies discrepancy is due to interference between EES and propriocepti ...

2018

Cerebellar Ataxia and Coenzyme Q Deficiency through Loss of Unorthodox Kinase Activity

Matteo Dal Peraro, Deniz Aydin, Xiao Guo

The UbiB protein kinase-like (PKL) family is widespread, comprising one-quarter of microbial PKLs and five human homologs, yet its biochemical activities remain obscure. COQ8A (ADCK3) is a mammalian UbiB protein associated with ubiquinone (CoQ) biosynthesi ...

Cell Press2016

A Neuromuscular Model for Symbiotic Man-Machine Exoskeleton Control Accounting for Patient Impairment Specificity

Auke Ijspeert, Florin Dzeladini, Etienne Burdet

Millions of people worldwide live with impaired locomotion. The degree of impairment is highly variable and the causes are multiple. This variation necessitates the design of a new generation of exoskeleton controllers for personalised, symbiotic man-machi ...

2014

MUNDUS project: MUltimodal Neuroprosthesis for daily Upper limb Support

Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Claudia Casellato

Background: MUNDUS is an assistive framework for recovering direct interaction capability of severely motor impaired people based on arm reaching and hand functions. It aims at achieving personalization, modularity and maximization of the user's direct inv ...

BioMed Central2013