Restoration of sensory information via bionic hands

SJ Bensmaia, DJ Tyler, S Micera - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Individuals who have lost the use of their hands because of amputation or spinal cord injury
can use prosthetic hands to restore their independence. A dexterous prosthesis requires the …

The homeostatic homunculus: rethinking deprivation-triggered reorganisation

D Muret, TR Makin - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Homeostatic mechanisms may sustain persistent representation of a missing
hand.•Recent evidence indicates distributed latent activity across the homunculus.• …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive benefits of using non-invasive compared to implantable neural feedback

L Chee, G Valle, G Preatoni, C Basla, M Marazzi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
A non-optimal prosthesis integration into an amputee's body schema suggests some
important functional and health consequences after lower limb amputation. These include …

[HTML][HTML] Frequency shapes the quality of tactile percepts evoked through electrical stimulation of the nerves

EL Graczyk, BP Christie, Q He, DJ Tyler… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Electrical stimulation of the peripheral nerves of human participants provides a unique
opportunity to study the neural determinants of perceptual quality using a causal …

[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 …

Layer-specific parameters of intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex

ME Urdaneta, NG Kunigk, F Delgado… - Journal of Neural …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Intracortical microstimulation of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) has shown
great progress in restoring touch sensations to patients with paralysis. Stimulation …

[HTML][HTML] Neural mechanisms of the temporal response of cortical neurons to intracortical microstimulation

K Kumaravelu, WM Grill - Brain stimulation, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) is used to map neuronal circuitry in the
brain and restore lost sensory function, including vision, hearing, and somatosensation. The …

[HTML][HTML] The role of electrode-site placement in the long-term stability of intracortical microstimulation

RL Saldanha, ME Urdaneta, KJ Otto - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Intracortical microelectrodes are neuroprosthetic devices used in brain-machine interfaces
to both record and stimulate neural activity in the brain. These technologies have been …

Biomimetic intracortical microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex for a bidirectional brain-computer interface

CL Hughes - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of human somatosensory cortex can restore tactile
sensations to people who have lost them. While ICMS can elicit tactile percepts that feel like …

Changes in interpulse spacing changes tactile perception of microstimulation in human somatosensory cortex

CL Hughes, RA Gaunt - 2021 10th International IEEE/EMBS …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stimulus frequency modulates percepts evoked by microstimulation in the somatosensory
cortex. However, it is not known how the timing of individual pulses affects perception. Here …