State-of-the-art upper extremity prostheses include anthropomorphic hands with dexterity
that approximates that of a human. To be fully useful, these devices will require an advanced …

Bioelectronic stimulation of the spinal cord has demonstrated significant progress in the
restoration of motor function in spinal cord injury (SCI). The proximal, uninjured spinal cord …

The dorsal root ganglia (DRG) contain the somas of first-order sensory neurons critical for
somatosensation. Due to technical difficulties, DRG neuronal activity in awake behaving …

Neural prostheses decode intention from cortical activity to restore upper extremity
movement. Typical decoding algorithms extract velocity—a vector quantity with direction and …

Active inference is a normative framework for explaining behaviour under the free energy
principle—a theory of self-organisation originating in neuroscience. It specifies neuronal …

A major issue to be addressed in the development of neural interfaces for prosthetic control
is the need for somatosensory feedback. Here, we investigate two possible strategies …

Objective. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) approaches often utilize an open-loop
controller to drive state transitions. The addition of sensory feedback may allow for closed …

The dorsal root ganglia (DRG) contain cell bodies of primary afferent neurons, which are
frequently studied by recording extracellularly with penetrating microelectrodes inserted into …

To date, decoding limb kinematic information mostly relies on neural signals recorded from
the peripheral nerve, dorsal root ganglia (DRG), ventral roots, spinal cord gray matter, and …

Objective. The main objective of this research is to record both sensory and motor
information from the ascending and descending tracts within the spinal cord to decode the …