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Modeling and simulation of neocortical micro- and mesocircuitry. Part II: Physiology and experimentation

Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Daniel Keller, Eilif Benjamin Muller, Michael Reimann, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Matthias Wolf, James Gonzalo King, Alexis Arnaudon, András Ecker, Rajnish Ranjan, Jean-Denis Georges Emile Courcol, Armando Romani, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Judit Planas Carbonell, Giuseppe Chindemi, Michael Emiel Gevaert, Christian Andreas Rössert, Fernando Joaquim Leite Pereira, Omar Awile, Mustafa Anil Tuncel, Daniela Egas Santander, James Bryden Isbister, Natali Barros Zulaica, Samuel Lieven D. Lapere, Sirio Bolaños Puchet, Maria Reva, Genrich Ivaska, Tanguy Pierre Louis Damart, Darshan Mandge, Joni Henrikki Herttuainen, Christoph Pokorny, Elvis Boci, Vishal Sood, Thomas Brice Delemontex, Aleksandra Zuzanna Teska, Polina Litvak, Alexander Dietz, Jorge Blanco Alonso, Gianluca Ficarelli, Weina Ji

Cortical dynamics underlie many cognitive processes and emerge from complex multi-scale interactions, which are challenging to study in vivo. Large-scale, biophysically detailed models offer a tool which can complement laboratory approaches. We present a m ...

2024

The mesoglea buffers the physico-chemical microenvironment of photosymbionts in the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea sp

Anders Meibom, Niclas Heidelberg Lyndby

IntroductionThe jellyfish Cassiopea has a conspicuous lifestyle, positioning itself upside-down on sediments in shallow waters thereby exposing its photosynthetic endosymbionts (Symbiodiniaceae) to light. Several studies have shown how the photosymbionts b ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Flexible surgical device with controllable stiffness

Charles Baur, Lennart Rubbert

The invention relates to a surgical device (10), comprising a tubular outer shaft (12,) and an inner element (14) having an elongated shape, the outer shaft comprising a distal (30a) and a proximal (30b) outer hinges, the inner element comprising an inner ...

2022

Ultraflexible flow directed device and system

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Lucio Feo Pancaldi-Giubbini, Pietro Luciano Jakobus Dirix

A flow directed device adapted to be guided by a fuid, such as blood, flow within a tubular structure such as a blood vessel is disclosed, said device comprising a proximal end (100), a distal end (101) and an elongated body (102) in between defining a lon ...

2021

Development of a peripheral neuroprosthesis to elicit fine hand movements in primates

Marion Aimée Geneviève Badi-Dubois

Neurological disorders such as spinal cord lesion and stroke disturb sensorimotor pathways and result in severe motor deficits that can dreadfully impact the quality of life of affected individuals. Strategies aiming at restoring hand function after upper- ...

EPFL2021

Advantages of patient-specific cutting guides with disposable instrumentation in total knee arthroplasty: a case control study

Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

BackgroundTotal knee arthroplasty (TKA) is most frequently planned using conventional two-dimensional weight-bearing lower limb radiographs and is performed with conventional femoral and tibial cutting guides. Questions have been raised about the accuracy ...

BMC2021

A new method for accurate in vivo mapping of human brain connections using microstructural and anatomical information

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Maxime Descoteaux, Muhamed Barakovic

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive imaging modality that has been extensively used in the literature to study the neuronal architecture of the brain in a wide range of neurological conditions using tractography. However, recent studies h ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020

Human Cochlear Nucleus on 7 Tesla Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Insights Into Micro-anatomy and Function for Auditory Brainstem Implant Surgery

Nicolas Vachicouras

Objective:The cochlear nucleus (CN) is the target of the auditory brainstem implant (ABI). Most ABI candidates have Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2) and distorted brainstem anatomy from bilateral vestibular schwannomas. The CN is difficult to characterize as ...

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2020

Interactions between Personality, Depression, Anxiety and Cognition to Understand Early Stage of Alzheimer's Disease

Valérie Rita Madeleine Zufferey

The multifaceted nature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can lead to wide inter-individual differences in disease manifestation in terms of brain pathology and cognition. The lack of understanding of phenotypic diversity in A ...

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD2020

Enhanced torque steerable guidewire

Philippe Renaud, Guillaume Cédric Yves Petitpierre, Marc Jasper Boers, Colin Darbellay

The invention provides for a steerable guidewire for insertion into a body cavity, characterized in that it comprises an elongated body (101) defining a longitudinally-arranged lumen (200) comprising i) a proximal end portion (100) and ii) a distal end por ...

2020

Partial-volume modeling reveals reduced gray matter in specific thalamic nuclei early in the time course of psychosis and chronic schizophrenia

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Patric Hagmann, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez

The structural complexity of the thalamus, due to its mixed composition of gray and white matter, make it challenging to disjoint and quantify each tissue contribution to the thalamic anatomy. This work promotes the use of partial-volume-based over probabi ...

Wiley2020

Steerable device and system

Philippe Renaud, Guillaume Cédric Yves Petitpierre, Marc Jasper Boers

A steerable device for use as e.g. a guidewire for insertion into a subject's body is disclosed. The device features a single side deflection of a bendable portion located at its distal end by application of a longitudinally-directed force either on an inn ...

2019

Hand exoskeleton device

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Luca Randazzo

The invention relates to a hand exoskeleton device having a modular nature. The device is designed to be wearable, portable and light in weight, and comprises from one to ten modules each having an actuating mechanism such as a linear actuator coupled with ...

2019

STEERABLE CATHETER WITH PORTIONS OF DIFFERENT STIFFNESS

Dario Floreano, Alice Tonazzini

A steerable catheter (10) comprises portions (100, 105) of different stiffness, having a proximal end (11), a distal end, a lumen extending there between, at least one magnet (20) at the proximal end (11), at least a magnetic field to influence the proxima ...

2019

Functional imaging of rostrocaudal spinal activity during upper limb motor tasks

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Silvestro Micera, Roberto Martuzzi, Elvira Pirondini, Nawal Noëlle Kinany

The spinal cord is the main interface between the brain and the periphery. It notably plays a central role in motor control, as spinal motoneurons activate skeletal muscles involved in voluntary movements. Yet, the spinal mechanisms underlying human moveme ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

N-Acetyl-Cysteine Supplementation Improves Functional Connectivity Within the Cingulate Cortex in Early Psychosis: A Pilot Study

Rolf Gruetter, Patric Hagmann, Lijing Xin, Alessandra Griffa

Background: There is increasing evidence that redox dysregulation, which can lead to oxidative stress and eventually to impairment of oligodendrocytes and parvalbumin interneurons, may underlie brain connectivity alterations in schizophrenia. Accordingly, ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2019

Intrafascicular electrode implant

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini

An implantable device for intrafascicular stimulation and/or sensing of a peripheral nerve, including a blocking element adapted for wrapping a nerve, comprising an access point and an exit point, and an electrode adapted to traverse the blocking element v ...

2018

Similarities and differences in the regulation of HoxD genes during chick and mouse limb development

Denis Duboule, Lucille Delisle, Guillaume Andrey, Christopher Chase Bolt

In all tetrapods examined thus far, the development and patterning of limbs require the activation of gene members of the HoxD cluster. In mammals, they are regulated by a complex bimodal process that controls first the proximal patterning and then the dis ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2018

Tip connector for fluidic and electrical connection

Philippe Renaud, Yann Barrandon, Jean-Baptiste Bureau, David Vincent Bonzon, Georges Muller, David Forchelet, Nicolas Uffer

A connector for providing both a fluidic and electrical connection is disclosed, said connector having a proximal end, a distal end and an elongated body in between, characterized in that the elongated body has an inner cavity spanning throughout its lengt ...

2018

Assessment of the lower limb soft tissue artefact at marker-cluster level with a high-density marker set during walking

Kamiar Aminian, Arnaud Barré

The estimation of joint kinematics from skin markers is hindered by the soft tissue artefact (STA), a well-known phenomenon although not fully characterized. While most assessments of the STA have been performed based on the individual skin markers displac ...

Elsevier2017