Brain circuits for pain and its treatment

N Mercer Lindsay, C Chen, G Gilam… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Pain is a multidimensional experience with sensory-discriminative, affective-motivational,
and cognitive-evaluative components. Pain aversiveness is one principal cause of suffering …

[HTML][HTML] Primary motor cortex in Parkinson's disease: Functional changes and opportunities for neurostimulation

CF Underwood, LC Parr-Brownlie - Neurobiology of Disease, 2021 - Elsevier
Movement abnormalities of Parkinson's disease (PD) arise from disordered neural activity in
multiple interconnected brain structures. The planning and execution of movement requires …

Values encoded in orbitofrontal cortex are causally related to economic choices

S Ballesta, W Shi, KE Conen, C Padoa-Schioppa - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
In the eighteenth century, Daniel Bernoulli, Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham proposed that
economic choices rely on the computation and comparison of subjective values. This …

Activity-dependent recruitment of inhibition and excitation in the awake mammalian cortex during electrical stimulation

MC Dadarlat, YJ Sun, MP Stryker - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Electrical stimulation is an effective tool for mapping and altering brain connectivity, with
applications ranging from treating pharmacology-resistant neurological disorders to …

Biophysically realistic neuron models for simulation of cortical stimulation

AS Aberra, AV Peterchev, WM Grill - Journal of neural …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. We implemented computational models of human and rat cortical neurons for
simulating the neural response to cortical stimulation with electromagnetic fields. Approach …

[HTML][HTML] Stoney vs. Histed: Quantifying the spatial effects of intracortical microstimulation

K Kumaravelu, J Sombeck, LE Miller, SJ Bensmaia… - Brain Stimulation, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) is used to map neural circuits and restore
lost sensory modalities such as vision, hearing, and somatosensation. The spatial effects of …

Orbitofrontal cortex contributes to the comparison of values underlying economic choices

S Ballesta, W Shi, C Padoa-Schioppa - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Economic choices between goods entail the computation and comparison of subjective
values. Previous studies examined neuronal activity in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) of …

The role of endogenous opioid neuropeptides in neurostimulation-driven analgesia

ST Lubejko, RD Graham, G Livrizzi… - Frontiers in Systems …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Due to the prevalence of chronic pain worldwide, there is an urgent need to improve pain
management strategies. While opioid drugs have long been used to treat chronic pain, their …

In vivo microstimulation with cathodic and anodic asymmetric waveforms modulates spatiotemporal calcium dynamics in cortical neuropil and pyramidal neurons of …

KC Stieger, JR Eles, KA Ludwig… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical stimulation has been critical in the development of an understanding of brain
function and disease. Despite its widespread use and obvious clinical potential, the …

Intracortical microstimulation pulse waveform and frequency recruits distinct spatiotemporal patterns of cortical neuron and neuropil activation

KC Stieger, JR Eles, KA Ludwig… - Journal of neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Neural prosthetics often use intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) for sensory
restoration. To restore natural and functional feedback, we must first understand how …