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Probing and modulating inter-areal coupling in the cortical visual motion processing pathway with non-invasive brain stimulation

In the last few years, stroke ranked as the second most common cause of death and is the third most significant condition affecting disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide. Being the most prevalent and quality of life impacting post-stroke symptom ...

EPFL2024

Miniaturised, Wireless and Distributed Neural Interface Toward Cortical Visual Prosthesis

Gian Luca Barbruni

Over the last decades, implantable neural interfaces have been extensively explored and effectively deployed to address neurological and mental health disorders. The existing solutions present several limitations. Firstly, the physical size of the implanta ...

EPFL2023

Finding a vocation for validation: taking proteomics beyond association and location

Yimon Aye, Jinmin Liu

First established in the seventies, proteomics, chemoproteomics, and most recently, spatial/proximity-proteomics technologies have empowered researchers with new capabilities to illuminate cellular communication networks that govern sophisticated decision- ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

An automatized method to determine latencies of motor-evoked potentials under physiological and pathophysiological conditions

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Pierre Theopistos Vassiliadis, Claudia Bigoni, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior

Background. Latencies of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) can provide insights into the motor neuronal pathways activated by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Notwithstanding its clinical relevance, accurate, unbiased methods to automatize latency detection ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

A modular strategy for next-generation upper-limb sensory-motor neuroprostheses

Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Giuseppe Schiavone

Neuroprosthetics is a discipline that aims at restoring lost functions to people affected by a variety of neurological disorders or neuro-traumatic lesions. It combines the expertise of computer science and electrical, mechanical, and micro/nanotechnology ...

ELSEVIER2021

Adaptation and Optimization of an Intraneural Electrode to Interface with the Cervical Vagus Nerve

Silvestro Micera, Ivo Strauss

The modulation of the cervical vagus nerve (VN) using neural electrodes has shown great potential to treat cardiovascular, inflammatory, intestinal, or respiratory dysfunctions. Intraneural electrodes have shown great potentials for other neuroprosthetic a ...

IEEE2021

Insertion device for inserting deformable prosthesis into an eye

Diego Ghezzi, Charles-Henri Puncho Jérôme Vila

An insertion device (100; 100') for inserting a retinal prosthesis (200) into the eye of a patient comprises: a handle portion (1; 1') arranged to be grasped by a user of the insertion device (100; 100'), a cannula element (12; 12') arranged to be inserted ...

2020

The Role of the Control Framework for Continuous Teleoperation of a Brain-Machine Interface-Driven Mobile Robot

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Luca Tonin, Felix Christian Bauer

Despite the growing interest in brain-machine interface (BMI)-driven neuroprostheses, the translation of the BMI output into a suitable control signal for the robotic device is often neglected. In this article, we propose a novel control approach based on ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Development of a new visual prosthesis for preclinical studies on artificial vision

Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi

The technological evolution in materials science and microengineering favored the production of advanced visual prostheses useful for fighting blindness and to improve patients quality of life. Visual prostheses aim at replacing lost visual functions by ar ...

EPFL2020

Direct activation of zebrafish neurons by ultrasonic stimulation revealed by whole CNS calcium imaging

Silvestro Micera

Objective. Ultrasounds (US) use in neural engineering is so far mainly limited to ablation through high intensity focused ultrasound, but interesting preliminary results show that low intensity low frequency ultrasound could be used instead to modulate neu ...

2020

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