Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an approved treatment for epilepsy and depression, and it
is currently under investigation for applications in Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, heart failure …

Non‐technical summary In the central nervous system, electrical signals passing along
nerve cells are speeded by cells called oligodendrocytes, which wrap the nerve cells with a …

Background: Multi-compartment cable models of auditory nerve fibers have been developed
to assist in the improvement of cochlear implants. With the advancement of computational …

Tactile sensory feedback plays an important role in our daily life. Transcutaneous electrical
nerve stimulation (TENS) is widely accepted to produce artificial tactile sensation. To explore …

The ability of a human auditory nerve fibre computational model to predict threshold
differences for biphasic, pseudomonophasic and alternating monophasic waveforms was …

The axons exhibit depolarizing and hyperpolarizing afterpotentials, which result in
complicated patterns of recovery cycle and influence the activation of subsequent action …

Neurons have an ionic system with several types of ion pumps and ion channels on their
membranes. Each ion pump creates a specific difference in ion concentration inside and …

A nerve activity blocking system (100) includes a blocking electrode (102) configured to
generate a blocking electrical signal that blocks, at least in part, an action potential …

Efforts on selective neural stimulation have concentrated on segregating axons based on
their size and geometry. Nonetheless, axons of the white matter or peripheral nerves may …

Electromagnetic peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) has many wide-reaching diagnostic and
therapeutic applications ranging from assessment of nerve injury to rehabilitation therapy …