Objective. The overall goal of this study was to investigate the effects of various anesthetic
protocols on the intraoperative responses to intraspinal microstimulation (ISMS). ISMS is a …

Observations using invasive neural recordings from patient populations undergoing
neurosurgical interventions have led to critical breakthroughs in our understanding of …

Background: Sedatives and opioids used during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery
interfere with optimal target localization and add to side effects and risks, and thus should be …

Epilepsy is a chronic disorder characterized by recurrent seizures due to unknown etiology.
In around 30% of patients, seizures become refractory to medical management, and they are …

Functional neurosurgery encompasses a variety of surgical interventions that are designed
to alter the physiological activity of the central nervous system for functional neurological …

Gamma knife surgery is a type of radiation therapy, which utilizes highly sophisticated
equipment to focus around 200 tiny beams of radiation on a tumor or other target with high …

As we are growing grayer, our expectations are also growing, and neurosurgical
interventions are also being increasingly done in the elderly patients. There are various …

The overall goal of this thesis was to advance intraspinal microstimulation (ISMS) towards
clinical testing for the purpose of restoring walking after spinal cord injury. ISMS implants …