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Neuronal responses in the human primary motor cortex coincide with the subjective onset of movement intention in brain-machine interface-mediated actions

Self-initiated behavior is accompanied by the experience of intending our actions. Here, we leverage the unique opportunity to examine the full intentional chain-from intention to action to environmental effects-in a tetraplegic person outfitted with a pri ...

2025

Single neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus process cardiac and respiratory signals in humans

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Emanuela De Falco, Mariana Babo Rebelo, Marco Solcà

2024

Sense of agency for intracortical brain-machine interfaces

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Tommaso Enrico Bertoni, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Marco Solcà, Pavo Orepic, Gaurav Sharma

Intracortical brain-machine interfaces decode motor commands from neural signals and translate them into actions, enabling movement for paralysed individuals. The subjective sense of agency associated with actions generated via intracortical brain-machine ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Enhancing analgesic spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain with personalized immersive virtual reality

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Giulio Rognini, Marco Solcà, Robin Mange, Pavo Orepic

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an approved treatment for truncal and limb neuropathic pain. However, pain relief is often suboptimal and SCS efficacy may reduce over time, requiring sometimes the addition of other pain therapies, stimulator revision, or ...

2021

Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence for altered interoceptive bodily processing in chronic pain

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Hyeongdong Park, Marco Solcà

Whereas impaired multisensory processing of bodily stimuli and distorted body representation are well-established in various chronic pain disorders, such research has focused on exteroceptive bodily cues and neglected bodily signals from the inside of the ...

2020

Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically-controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Fosco Bernasconi, Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho, Andrea Serino, Roy Salomon, Giulio Rognini, Masayuki Hara, Marco Solcà, Giedre Stripeikyte

Thought insertion (TI) is characterized by the experience that certain thoughts, occurring in one’s mind, are not one’s own, but the thoughts of somebody else and suggestive of a psychotic disorder. We report a robotics-based method able to investigate the ...

2020

Early Urinary Biomarkers in Pediatric Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD): No Evidence in the Interest of Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (uNGAL)

Marco Solcà

Background: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is increasingly diagnosed during childhood by the presence of renal cysts in patients with a positive familial history. No curative treatment is available and early detection and diagnosis co ...

2019

Cognitive neuroprosthetics for investigating and restoring body perception

Marco Solcà

Our brain constantly receives and integrates a flow of multisensory bodily inputs that are responsible for the way our body is represented and consciously experienced. However, in some pathological conditions, patients might experience altered perceptions ...

EPFL2019

Non-invasive brain stimulation of motor cortex induces embodiment when integrated with virtual reality feedback

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Marco Solcà, Javier Bello Ruiz, Matteo Franza, Thomas Schmidlin, Mattia Pinardi, Marianne Anke Stephan

Previous evidence highlighted the multisensory-motor origin of embodiment - that is, the experience of having a body and of being in control of it - and the possibility of experimentally manipulating it. For instance, an illusory feeling of embodiment towa ...

2018

Multisensory bionic limb to achieve prosthesis embodiment and reduce distorted phantom limb perceptions

Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Silvestro Micera, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle, Marco Solcà

2019