Mapping the iceberg of autonomic recovery: mechanistic underpinnings of neuromodulation following spinal cord injury

S Samejima, C Shackleton, T Miller… - The …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Spinal cord injury leads to disruption in autonomic control resulting in cardiovascular, bowel,
and lower urinary tract dysfunctions, all of which significantly reduce health-related quality 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 …

Absence of paresthesia during high-rate spinal cord stimulation reveals importance of synchrony for sensations evoked by electrical stimulation

B Sagalajev, T Zhang, N Abdollahi, N Yousefpour… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Electrically activating mechanoreceptive afferents inhibits pain. However, paresthesia
evoked by spinal cord stimulation (SCS) at 40–60 Hz becomes uncomfortable at high pulse …

Surround inhibition mediates pain relief by low amplitude spinal cord stimulation: modeling and measurement

JE Gilbert, N Titus, T Zhang, R Esteller, WM Grill - Eneuro, 2022 - eneuro.org
Abstract Low-frequency (< 200 Hz), subperception spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a novel
modality demonstrating therapeutic efficacy for treating chronic neuropathic pain. When …

An optimization framework for targeted spinal cord stimulation

E Mirzakhalili, ER Rogers… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a common neurostimulation therapy to manage
chronic pain. Technological advances have produced new neurostimulation systems with …

The role of spinal cord neuroanatomy in the variances of epidural spinal recordings

DV Lam, J Chin, MK Brucker-Hahn, M Settell… - Bioelectronic …, 2024 - Springer
Background Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has demonstrated multiple benefits in treating
chronic pain and other clinical disorders related to sensorimotor dysfunctions. However, the …

Using a high-frequency carrier does not improve comfort of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation

AN Dalrymple, CA Hooper, MG Kuriakose… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Spinal cord neuromodulation has gained much attention for demonstrating
improved motor recovery in people with spinal cord injury, motivating the development of …

Spinal stimulation for motor rehabilitation immediately modulates nociceptive transmission

MF Bandres, JL Gomes… - Journal of neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Spinal cord injury (SCI) often results in debilitating movement impairments and
neuropathic pain. Electrical stimulation of spinal neurons holds considerable promise both …

Model-based analysis of subthreshold mechanisms of spinal cord stimulation for pain

ER Rogers, E Mirzakhalili… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a common treatment for chronic pain. For
decades, SCS maximized overlap between stimulation-induced paresthesias and the …

Biophysics of frequency-dependent variation in paresthesia and pain relief during spinal cord stimulation

ER Rogers, M Capogrosso, SF Lempka - Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 - jneurosci.org
The neurophysiological effects of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic pain are poorly
understood, resulting in inefficient failure-prone programming protocols and inadequate …