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Understanding ultrasound neuromodulation using a computationally efficient and interpretable model of intramembrane cavitation

Théo Lemaire, Silvestro Micera, Esra Neufeld

Objective. Low-intensity focused ultrasound stimulation (LIFUS) emerges as an attracting technology for noninvasive modulation of neural circuits, yet the underlying action mechanisms remain unclear. The neuronal intramembrane cavitation excitation (NICE) ...

2019

A biomimetic electrical stimulation strategy to induce asynchronous stochastic neural activity

Sandra Gribi, Edoardo D'Anna, Stéphanie Lacour, Silvestro Micera, Emanuele Formento

Objective.Electrical stimulation is an effective method for artificially modulating the activity of the nervous system. However, current stimulation paradigms fail to reproduce the stochastic and asynchronous properties of natural neural activity. Here, we ...

2020

Neurotechnologies to restore hand functions

Solaiman Shokur, Silvestro Micera

Reaching and manipulating objects are crucial tasks that allow proactive interaction with our surroundings. However, these functions are lost after neurological disorders or traumatic events that cause hand paralysis. Neuroprosthetic technologies are medic ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Stroke Recovery–Related Changes in Cortical Reactivity Based on Modulation of Intracortical Inhibition

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Philip Egger, Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Silvestro Micera, Elena Beanato, Takuya Morishita, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Adrien Jean-Baptiste Witon, Martino Bruno Armando Ceroni, Pauline Menoud, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

BACKGROUND: Cortical excitation/inhibition dynamics have been suggested as a key mechanism occurring after stroke. Their supportive or maladaptive role in the course of recovery is still not completely understood. Here, we used transcranial m ...

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)2024

Bilateral cortical representation of tactile roughness

Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni

Roughness is the most important feature for texture discrimination. Here we investigate how the bilateral cortical representation of touch is modulated by tactile roughness by analyzing the neural responses elicited by stimuli with various coarseness level ...

2018

Characterization of multi-channel intraneural stimulation in transradial amputees

Pablo Garcia del Valle, Edoardo D'Anna, Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle, Fiorenzo Artoni

Although peripheral nerve stimulation using intraneural electrodes has been shown to be an effective and reliable solution to restore sensory feedback after hand loss, there have been no reports on the characterization of multi-channel stimulation. A deepe ...

Springer Nature2019

Combining biophysical models and machine learning to optimize implant geometry and stimulation protocol for intraneural electrodes

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

Objective. Peripheral nerve interfaces have the potential to restore sensory, motor, and visceral functions. In particular, intraneural interfaces allow targeting deep neural structures with high selectivity, even if their performance strongly depends upon ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Cortico-muscular connectivity is modulated by passive and active Lokomat-assisted Gait

Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni

The effects of robotic-assisted gait (RAG) training, besides conventional therapy, on neuroplasticity mechanisms and cortical integration in locomotion are still uncertain. To advance our knowledge on the matter, we determined the involvement of motor cort ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Artificial spatiotemporal touch inputs reveal complementary decoding in neocortical neurons

Silvestro Micera

Investigations of the mechanisms of touch perception and decoding has been hampered by difficulties in achieving invariant patterns of skin sensor activation. To obtain reproducible spatiotemporal patterns of activation of sensory afferents, we used an art ...

Nature Research2017

Comparison of linear frequency and amplitude modulation for intraneural sensory feedback in bidirectional hand prostheses

Pablo Garcia del Valle, Edoardo D'Anna, Valeria Granata, Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle

Recent studies have shown that direct nerve stimulation can be used to provide sensory feedback to hand amputees. The intensity of the elicited sensations can be modulated using the amplitude or frequency of the injected stimuli. However, a comprehensive c ...

Nature Research2018

Convolutional neural network classifies visual stimuli from cortical response recorded with wide-field imaging in mice

Silvestro Micera

Objective. The optic nerve is a good location for a visual neuroprosthesis. It can be targeted when a subject cannot receive a retinal prosthesis and it is less invasive than a cortical implant. The effectiveness of an electrical neuroprosthesis depends on ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Sensory feedback restoration in leg amputees improves walking speed, metabolic cost and phantom pain

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Giacomo Valle

Conventional leg prostheses do not convey sensory information about motion or interaction with the ground to aboveknee amputees, thereby reducing confidence and walking speed in the users that is associated with high mental and physical fatigue(1-4). The l ...

2019

Effects of early and intensive neuro-rehabilitative treatment on muscle synergies in acute post-stroke patients: a pilot study

Silvestro Micera, Martina Coscia

Background: After a stroke, patients show significant modifications of neural control of movement, such as abnormal muscle co-activation, and reduced selectivity and modulation of muscle activity. Nonetheless, results reported in literature do not allow to ...

BioMed Central2013

Toward individualized medicine in stroke-The TiMeS project: Protocol of longitudinal, multi-modal, multi-domain study in stroke

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Philip Egger, Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Silvestro Micera, Nathalie Heidi Meyer, Elena Beanato, Valérie Rita Madeleine Zufferey, Gabriel Girard, Julia Brügger, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Estelle Emeline Raffin, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Traian Popa, Diego de Leon Rodriguez, Martino Bruno Armando Ceroni, Pauline Menoud, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Despite recent improvements, complete motor recovery occurs in < 15% of stroke patients. To improve the therapeutic outcomes, there is a strong need to tailor treatments to each individual patient. However, there is a lack of knowledge concerning the preci ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Wide-field imaging of cortical neuronal activity with red-shifted functional indicators during motor task execution

Silvestro Micera

Genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) can be used to monitor the intracellular concentration of free calcium in populations of neurons. GECIs with long emission wavelengths are particularly attractive for deep tissue microscopy in vivo, and have t ...

2019

MUNDUS project: MUltimodal Neuroprosthesis for daily Upper limb Support

Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema

Background: MUNDUS is an assistive framework for recovering direct interaction capability of severely motor impaired people based on arm reaching and hand functions. It aims at achieving personalization, modularity and maximization of the user's direct inv ...

BioMed Central2013

Ambulatory Assessment of the Dynamic Margin of Stability Using an Inertial Sensor Network

Silvestro Micera

Loss of stability is a precursor to falling and therefore represents a leading cause of injury, especially in fragile people. Thus, dynamic stability during activities of daily living (ADLs) needs to be considered to assess balance control and fall risk. T ...

2019

Brain and grammar: revealing electrophysiological basic structures with competing statistical models

Silvestro Micera

Acoustic, lexical, and syntactic information are simultaneously processed in the brain requiring complex strategies to distinguish their electrophysiological activity. Capitalizing on previous works that factor out acoustic information, we could concentrat ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2024

Fast-Spiking Interneurons of the Premotor Cortex Contribute to Initiation and Execution of Spontaneous Actions

Silvestro Micera

Planning and execution of voluntary movement depend on the contribution of distinct classes of neurons in primary motor and premotor areas. However, timing and pattern of activation of GABAergic cells during specific motor behaviors remain only partly unde ...

SOC NEUROSCIENCE2023

Discrimination of Walking and Standing from Entropy of EEG Signals and Common Spatial Patterns

Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni

Recently, the complexity analysis of brain activity has shown the possibility to provide additional information to discriminate between rest and motion in real-time. In this work, we propose a novel entropy-based machine learning method to classify between ...

IEEE2020