Publications by Ivan Rusev Minev

Advantages of soft subdural implants for the delivery of electrochemical neuromodulation therapies to the spinal cord

Stéphanie Lacour, Marco Capogrosso, Grégoire Courtine, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Pavel Musienko, Ivan Rusev Minev, Nikolaus Wenger, Jérôme Gandar, Polina Shkorbatova, Nathan Antoine Greiner

Objective. We recently developed soft neural interfaces enabling the delivery of electrical and chemical stimulation to the spinal cord. These stimulations restored locomotion in animal models of paralysis. Soft interfaces can be placed either below or abo ...

2018

Method for the electrical passivation of electrode arrays and/or conductive paths in general, and a method for producing stretchable electrode arrays and/or stretchable conductive paths in general

Stéphanie Lacour, Ivan Rusev Minev

A method produces a conductive paste comprising 15-20% by weight of PDMS and 80-85% by weight of metallic micro-nano particles, wherein the conductive paste is obtained by repeated addition of singular doses of PDMS to a heptane diluted PDMS low viscosity ...

2017

Method for manufacturing electrical conductors, and electrical conductors manufactured according to same

Stéphanie Lacour, Ivan Rusev Minev, Hadrien Olivier Michaud, Arthur Edouard Hirsch

A method for manufacturing an electrical conductor 43 and an electrical conductor 43 manufactured according to the method, said method comprising: providing a substrate 30; depositing a solid metal conductive layer or film 40 on said substrate 30; Depositi ...

2017

Spatiotemporal neuromodulation therapies engaging muscle synergies improve motor control after spinal cord injury

Silvestro Micera, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Jocelyne Bloch, Marco Capogrosso, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Pavel Musienko, Nikolaus Wenger, Natalia Pavlova

Electrical neuromodulation of lumbar segments improves motor control after spinal cord injury in animal models and humans. However, the physiological principles underlying the effect of this intervention remain poorly understood, which has limited the ther ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Synthetic skin for recording and modulating physiological activities

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Pavel Musienko, Ivan Rusev Minev, Arthur Edouard Hirsch

A method for producing a device adapted to be implanted into the human body for purposes such as neural stimulation, sensing or the like, and device produced according to said method, said method comprising: providing a stretchable layer or membrane (21) o ...

2016

Biomaterials. Electronic dura mater for long-term multimodal neural interfaces

Silvestro Micera, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Léonie Asboth, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Tomislav Milekovic, Marco Capogrosso, Pavel Musienko, Nicolas Vachicouras

The mechanical mismatch between soft neural tissues and stiff neural implants hinders the long-term performance of implantable neuroprostheses. Here, we designed and fabricated soft neural implants with the shape and elasticity of dura mater, the protectiv ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2015

Corticospinal neuroprostheses to restore locomotion after spinal cord injury

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Silvestro Micera, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Pavel Musienko, Nikolaus Wenger, Ivan Rusev Minev, Marco Bonizzato, Janine Beauparlant

In this conceptual review, we highlight our strategy for, and progress in the development of corticospinal neuroprostheses for restoring locomotor functions and promoting neural repair after thoracic spinal cord injury in experimental animal models. We spe ...

Elsevier2014

A Microchannel Neuroprosthesis for Bladder Control After Spinal Cord Injury in Rat

Stéphanie Lacour, Ivan Rusev Minev, Katherine Marie Musick

A severe complication of spinal cord injury is loss of bladder function (neurogenic bladder), which is characterized by loss of bladder sensation and voluntary control of micturition (urination), and spontaneous hyperreflexive voiding against a closed sphi ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2013

Localization of Folds and Cracks in Thin Metal Films Coated on Flexible Elastomer Foams

Stéphanie Lacour, Hugues Vandeparre, Ivan Rusev Minev

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Stretchable Electrodes for Neuroprosthetic Interfaces

Stéphanie Lacour, Nicolas Vachicouras, Anna Cyganowski, Ivan Rusev Minev, Katherine Marie Musick

We have developed a stretchable gold microelectrode array (MEA) that can withstand the torsion requirements needed for implantable neuroprosthetic interface applications. The array is composed of thin gold (sub-100 nm thick) electrodes on a soft, 120 mu m ...

Ieee2012