On temporal scale-free non-periodic stimulation and its mechanisms as an infinite improbability drive of the brain's functional connectogram

VR Cota, SAV Cançado, MFD Moraes - Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Rationalized development of electrical stimulation (ES) therapy is of paramount importance.
Not only it will foster new techniques and technologies with increased levels of safety …

The endocannabinoid system activation as a neural network desynchronizing mediator for seizure suppression

DC Medeiros, VR Cota, ACP Oliveira… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The understanding that hyper-excitability and hyper-synchronism in epilepsy are
indissociably bound by a cause-consequence relation has only recently been challenged …

Neuromorphic bioelectronic medicine for nervous system interfaces: from neural computational primitives to medical applications

E Donati, G Indiveri - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Bioelectronic medicine treats chronic diseases by sensing, processing, and modulating the
electronic signals produced in the nervous system of the human body, labeled'neural …

Nucleus accumbens shell modulates seizure propagation in a mouse temporal lobe epilepsy model

W Zou, Z Guo, L Suo, J Zhu, H He, X Li… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of epilepsy with focal seizures which
in some conditions can develop into secondarily generalized tonic–clonic seizures by the …

Amygdala low-frequency stimulation reduces pathological phase-amplitude coupling in the pilocarpine model of epilepsy

I Mihály, K Orbán-Kis, Z Gáll, ÁJ Berki, RB Bod… - Brain Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Temporal-lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common type of drug-resistant epilepsy and
warrants the development of new therapies, such as deep-brain stimulation (DBS). DBS was …

[HTML][HTML] Epilepsy as a dynamical system, a most needed paradigm shift in epileptology

MFD Moraes, D de Castro Medeiros, FAG Mourao… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
The idea of the epileptic brain being highly excitable and facilitated to synchronic activity has
guided pharmacological treatment since the early twentieth century. Although tackling …

Persistence of neural function in animals submitted to seizure-suppressing scale-free nonperiodic electrical stimulation applied to the amygdala

LA Réboli, RM Maciel, JC de Oliveira… - Behavioural Brain …, 2022 - Elsevier
Based on the rationale that neural hypersynchronization underlies epileptic phenomena,
nonperiodic stimulation (NPS) was designed and successfully tested as an electrical …

[HTML][HTML] Nonperiodic stimulation for the treatment of refractory epilepsy: Applications, mechanisms, and novel insights

VR Cota, JC de Oliveira, LCM Damázio… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrical stimulation of the central nervous system is a promising alternative for the
treatment of pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Successful clinical and experimental stimulation is …

Grey and white matter microstructure changes in epilepsy patients with vagus nerve stimulators

J Zhu, C Xu, X Zhang, L Qiao, X Wang, X Zhang… - Clinical Neurology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has been widely used as an effective treatment
for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). However, little is known about grey matter …

[HTML][HTML] The endocannabinoid system activation as a neural network desynchronizing mediator for seizure suppression

D de Castro Medeiros, VR Cota… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The understanding that hyper-excitability and hyper-synchronism in epilepsy are
indissociably bound by a cause-consequence relation has only recently been challenged …