Selective neuromodulation of the vagus nerve

A Fitchett, S Mastitskaya, K Aristovich - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an effective technique for the treatment of refractory
epilepsy and shows potential for the treatment of a range of other serious conditions …

Organic bioelectronics: using highly conjugated polymers to interface with biomolecules, cells, and tissues in the human body

SG Higgins, A Lo Fiego, I Patrick… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers exhibit interesting material and optoelectronic properties that make
them well‐suited to the development of biointerfaces. Their biologically relevant mechanical …

Advances in soft bioelectronics for brain research and clinical neuroengineering

SH Sunwoo, SI Han, H Joo, GD Cha, D Kim, SH Choi… - Matter, 2020 - cell.com
Recent advances in bioelectronics, such as skin-mounted electroencephalography sensors,
multi-channel neural probes, and closed-loop deep brain stimulators, have enabled …

Methods of poly (3, 4)-ethylenedioxithiophene (PEDOT) electrodeposition on metal electrodes for neural stimulation and recording

T Niederhoffer, A Vanhoestenberghe… - Journal of neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Conductive polymers are of great interest in the field of neural electrodes because of their
potential to improve the interfacial properties of electrodes. In particular, the conductive …

In-situ self-assembly of bacterial cellulose/poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-sulfonated nanofibers for peripheral nerve repair

G Liu, M Ma, H Meng, J Liu, Y Zheng, J Peng… - Carbohydrate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biocompatible and electroactive biomaterials have good potential on peripheral nerve
repair. Bacterial cellulose (BC) shows excellent biocompatibility and is easy to modified …

Organotopic organization of the porcine mid-cervical vagus nerve

N Thompson, E Ravagli, S Mastitskaya… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Despite detailed characterization of fascicular organization of somatic nerves,
the functional anatomy of fascicles evident in human and large mammal cervical vagus …

Model-based geometrical optimisation and in vivo validation of a spatially selective multielectrode cuff array for vagus nerve neuromodulation

K Aristovich, M Donega, C Fjordbakk, I Tarotin… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Neuromodulation by electrical stimulation of the human cervical vagus nerve
may be limited by adverse side effects due to stimulation of off-target organs. It may be …

Imaging fascicular organization of rat sciatic nerves with fast neural electrical impedance tomography

E Ravagli, S Mastitskaya, N Thompson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Imaging compound action potentials (CAPs) in peripheral nerves could help avoid side
effects in neuromodulation by selective stimulation of identified fascicles. Existing methods …

In vivo imaging of deep neural activity from the cortical surface during hippocampal epileptiform events in the rat brain using electrical impedance tomography

S Hannan, M Faulkner, K Aristovich, J Avery… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a medical imaging technique which reconstructs
images of the internal impedance changes within an object using non-penetrating surface …

Optimization of the electrode drive pattern for imaging fascicular compound action potentials in peripheral nerve with fast neural electrical impedance tomography

E Ravagli, S Mastitskaya, N Thompson… - Physiological …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective: The main objective of this study was to investigate which injection pattern led to
the best imaging of fascicular compound activity in fast neural EIT of peripheral nerve using …