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Combining robotics with enhanced serotonin-driven cortical plasticity improves post-stroke motor recovery

Silvestro Micera, Stefano Lai, Maria Pasquini, Sara Conti, Marco Mainardi

Despite recent progresses in robotic rehabilitation technologies, their efficacy for post-stroke motor recovery is still limited. Such limitations might stem from the insufficient enhancement of plasticity mechanisms, crucial for functional recovery. Here, ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Spatiotemporal Maps of Proprioceptive Inputs to the Cervical Spinal Cord During Three-Dimensional Reaching and Grasping

Auke Ijspeert, Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty, Marco Capogrosso, Nathan Antoine Greiner, Beatrice Barra, Pierre Charles Marie Kibleur, Sara Conti

Proprioceptive feedback is a critical component of voluntary movement planning and execution. Neuroprosthetic technologies aiming at restoring movement must interact with it to restore accurate motor control. Optimization and design of such technologies de ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

A versatile robotic platform for the design of natural, three-dimensional reaching and grasping tasks in monkeys

Aude Billard, Silvestro Micera, Marco Capogrosso, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Marion Aimée Geneviève Badi-Dubois, Sara Conti

Objective. Translational studies on motor control and neurological disorders require detailed monitoring of sensorimotor components of natural limb movements in relevant animal models. However, available experimental tools do not provide a sufficiently ric ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Automatic clustering of spinal reflexes evoked by epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical spinal cord in non-human primates

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Giuseppe Schiavone, Jocelyne Bloch, Marco Capogrosso, Beatrice Barra, Katie Zhi Zhuang, Sara Conti

Epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord elicits motor responses by recruiting large sensory afferents in the posterior roots. Divergence of excitatory inputs provided by these fibers generates a variety of shapes, latencies and amplitudes in the ...

2019

A Robotic System for Adaptive Training and Function Assessment of Forelimb Retraction in Mice

Silvestro Micera, Stefano Lai, Maria Pasquini, Sara Conti

Rodent models are decisive for translational research in healthy and pathological conditions of motor function thanks to specific similarities with humans. Here, we present an upgraded version of the M-Platform, a robotic device previously designed to trai ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018