Publications de Emanuele Formento

A biomimetic electrical stimulation strategy to induce asynchronous stochastic neural activity

Silvestro Micera, Stéphanie Lacour, Edoardo D'Anna, Emanuele Formento, Sandra Gribi

Objective.Electrical stimulation is an effective method for artificially modulating the activity of the nervous system. However, current stimulation paradigms fail to reproduce the stochastic and asynchronous properties of natural neural activity. Here, we ...

2020

Experimental and Computational Study on Motor Control and Recovery After Stroke: Toward a Constructive Loop Between Experimental and Virtual Embodied Neuroscience

Auke Ijspeert, Silvestro Micera, Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Emanuele Formento, Maria Pasquini, Egidio Falotico, Lorenzo Vannucci, Axel von Arnim, Emmanouil Angelidis

Being able to replicate real experiments with computational simulations is a unique opportunity to refine and validate models with experimental data and redesign the experiments based on simulations. However, since it is technically demanding to model all ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Shared human–robot proportional control of a dexterous myoelectric prosthesis

Aude Billard, Silvestro Micera, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Fiorenzo Artoni, Francesco Maria Petrini, Nicolas Sommer, Edoardo D'Anna, Emanuele Formento, Saurav Aryan, Katie Zhi Zhuang

Myoelectric prostheses allow users to recover lost functionality by controlling a robotic device with their remaining muscle activity. Such commercial devices can give users a high level of autonomy, but still do not approach the dexterity of the intact hu ...

2019

Closed-loop control of trunk posture improves locomotion through the regulation of leg proprioceptive feedback after spinal cord injury

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Marco Capogrosso, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Emanuele Formento

Nature Research2018

A sensory information compliant spinal cord stimulation system for the rehabilitation of motor functions

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Emanuele Formento, Karen Minassian

The present invention refers to a system for stimulation of the spinal cord for the rehabilitation of motor function in subjects with spinal cord injury or other motor disorders. Said system comprises a programmable implantable pulse generator (IPG), opera ...

2018

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

A Computational Approach for the Design of Epidural Electrical Spinal Cord Stimulation Strategies to Enable Locomotion after Spinal Cord Injury

Emanuele Formento

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major cause of paralysis with currently no effective treatment. Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the lumbar spinal cord has been shown to restore locomotion in animal models of SCI, but has not yet reached the same lev ...

EPFL2018