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A versatile robotic platform for the design of natural, three-dimensional reaching and grasping tasks in monkeys

Aude Billard, Silvestro Micera, Marco Capogrosso, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Marion Aimée Geneviève Badi-Dubois

Objective. Translational studies on motor control and neurological disorders require detailed monitoring of sensorimotor components of natural limb movements in relevant animal models. However, available experimental tools do not provide a sufficiently ric ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Advantages of soft subdural implants for the delivery of electrochemical neuromodulation therapies to the spinal cord

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Pavel Musienko, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Ivan Rusev Minev, Nikolaus Wenger, Jérôme Gandar, Nathan Antoine Greiner

Objective. We recently developed soft neural interfaces enabling the delivery of electrical and chemical stimulation to the spinal cord. These stimulations restored locomotion in animal models of paralysis. Soft interfaces can be placed either below or abo ...

2018

Neuroprosthetic baroreflex controls haemodynamics after spinal cord injury

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Jocelyne Bloch, Giuseppe Schiavone, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Nicolas Vachicouras, Quentin Barraud, Jordan Squair, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Claudia Kathe, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Mark Andrew Anderson, Newton Cho, Nicholas David James, Salif Axel Komi, Jimmy James Ravier, Jérôme Gandar, Andreas Rowald, Kay Alexander Bartholdi, Charlotte Marie Jacques Moerman, Achilleas Laskaratos, Laura Ann McCracken, Loïs Thomas Romain Mahe, Arnaud Bichat

Spinal cord injury (SCI) induces haemodynamic instability that threatens survival(1-3), impairs neurological recovery(4,5), increases the risk of cardiovascular disease(6,7), and reduces quality of life(8,9). Haemodynamic instability in this context is due ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Long-term usability and bio-integration of polyimide-based intraneural stimulating electrodes

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Stanisa Raspopovic, Alessandra Piersigilli, Quentin Barraud, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Jacopo Rigosa, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Jérôme Gandar, Natalia Pavlova

Stimulation of peripheral nerves has transiently restored lost sensation and has the potential to alleviate motor deficits. However, incomplete characterization of the long-term usability and bio-integration of intra-neural implants has restricted their us ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Activity-dependent spinal cord neuromodulation rapidly restores trunk and leg motor functions after complete paralysis

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Jocelyne Bloch, Quentin Barraud, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Léonie Asboth, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Salif Axel Komi, Jimmy James Ravier, Henri Charles Alexandre Lorach, Andreas Rowald, Miroslav Caban, Nathan Antoine Greiner, Carmina Andrea Galvez Solano, Sergio Daniel Hernandez, Laura Ann McCracken, Edeny Baaklini

Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) targeting the dorsal roots of lumbosacral segments restores walking in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). However, EES is delivered with multielectrode paddle leads that were originally designed to target the dorsal ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

System for selective spatiotemporal stimulation of the spinal cord

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Jocelyne Bloch, Nikolaus Wenger

The present disclosure refers to systems for electrical neurostimulation of a spinal cord of a subject in need of nervous system function support. In one example, a system comprises a signal processing device configured to receive signals from the subject ...

2019

Spatiotemporal neuromodulation therapies engaging muscle synergies improve motor control after spinal cord injury

Silvestro Micera, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch, Marco Capogrosso, Quentin Barraud, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Ivan Rusev Minev, Léonie Asboth, Jérôme Gandar, Nikolaus Wenger, Arthur Edouard Hirsch, Pavel Musienko, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Natalia Pavlova, Julie Kreider

Electrical neuromodulation of lumbar segments improves motor control after spinal cord injury in animal models and humans. However, the physiological principles underlying the effect of this intervention remain poorly understood, which has limited the ther ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

A Computational Framework for the Design of Spinal Neuroprostheses

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch, Marco Capogrosso

Severe Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) alters the communication between supra-spinal centers and the sensorimotor networks coordinating limb movements, which are usually located below the injury. Epidural electrical stimulation of lumbar segments has shown the ab ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2017

Spatiotemporal Maps of Proprioceptive Inputs to the Cervical Spinal Cord During Three-Dimensional Reaching and Grasping

Auke Ijspeert, Marco Capogrosso, Nathan Antoine Greiner, Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty, Pierre Charles Marie Kibleur

Proprioceptive feedback is a critical component of voluntary movement planning and execution. Neuroprosthetic technologies aiming at restoring movement must interact with it to restore accurate motor control. Optimization and design of such technologies de ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Chronic multichannel neural recordings from soft regenerative microchannel electrodes during gait

Silvestro Micera, Stéphanie Lacour, Marco Capogrosso, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Katherine Marie Musick, Jacopo Rigosa

Reliably interfacing a nerve with an electrode array is one of the approaches to restore motor and sensory functions after an injury to the peripheral nerve. Accomplishing this with current technologies is challenging as the electrode-neuron interface ofte ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Selective Recruitment of Arm Motoneurons in Nonhuman Primates Using Epidural Electrical Stimulation of the Cervical Spinal Cord

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Jocelyne Bloch, Giuseppe Schiavone

Recovery of reaching and grasping ability is the priority for people with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) has shown promising results in improving motor control after SCI in various animal models and in humans. Nota ...

2018

A multidirectional gravity-assist algorithm that enhances locomotor control in patients with stroke or spinal cord injury

Auke Ijspeert, Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch, Marco Capogrosso, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Nicolas Francis Fumeaux, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Jessica Lanini, Selin Anil

Gait recovery after neurological disorders requires remastering the interplay between body mechanics and gravitational forces. Despite the importance of gravity-dependent gait interactions and active participation for promoting this learning, these essenti ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2017

Biomaterials. Electronic dura mater for long-term multimodal neural interfaces

Silvestro Micera, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Nicolas Vachicouras, Quentin Barraud, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Ivan Rusev Minev, Léonie Asboth, Tomislav Milekovic, Nikolaus Wenger, Arthur Edouard Hirsch, Pavel Musienko, Jérôme Gandar, Natalia Pavlova

The mechanical mismatch between soft neural tissues and stiff neural implants hinders the long-term performance of implantable neuroprostheses. Here, we designed and fabricated soft neural implants with the shape and elasticity of dura mater, the protectiv ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2015

Soft, Implantable Bioelectronic Interfaces for Translational Research

Evgenia Vladimirova Roussinova, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Jocelyne Bloch, Sébastien Jiguet, Giuseppe Schiavone, Nicolas Vachicouras, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Ivan Furfaro, Xiaoyang Kang, Andreas Rowald, Simon Borgognon, Ismael Seanez Gonzalez

The convergence of materials science, electronics, and biology, namely bioelectronic interfaces, leads novel and precise communication with biological tissue, particularly with the nervous system. However, the translation of lab‐based innovation toward cli ...

Wiley2020

Automatic clustering of spinal reflexes evoked by epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical spinal cord in non-human primates

Katie Zhi Zhuang, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Jocelyne Bloch, Giuseppe Schiavone

Epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord elicits motor responses by recruiting large sensory afferents in the posterior roots. Divergence of excitatory inputs provided by these fibers generates a variety of shapes, latencies and amplitudes in the ...

2019

Microneurography as a tool to develop decoding algorithms for peripheral neuro-controlled hand prostheses

Silvestro Micera, Marco Capogrosso, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Jacopo Rigosa

Background:The usability of dexterous hand prostheses is still hampered by the lack of natural and effective control strategies. A decoding strategy based on the process-ing of descending efferent neural signals recorded using peripheral neural interfaces ...

2019

A sensory information compliant spinal cord stimulation system for the rehabilitation of motor functions

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Karen Minassian, Emanuele Formento

The present invention refers to a system for stimulation of the spinal cord for the rehabilitation of motor function in subjects with spinal cord injury or other motor disorders. Said system comprises a programmable implantable pulse generator (IPG), opera ...

2018

Neuroprosthetic technologies to augment the impact of neurorehabilitation after spinal cord injury

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Nicolas Francis Fumeaux, Marco Capogrosso, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot

Spinal cord injury leads to a range of disabilities, including limitations in locomotor activity, that seriously diminish the patients’ autonomy and quality of life. Electrochemical neuromodulation therapies, robot-assisted rehabilitation and willpower-bas ...

2015

A system for planning and/or providing neuromodulation

Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Vincent Delattre, Karen Minassian

The present invention relates to a system for planning and/or providing neuromodulation (10), especially neurostimulation, comprising: - first data input module (26) for stimulation related basic data, - a stimulation related basic data storage module (28) ...

2019

Targeted neurotechnology restores walking in humans with spinal cord injury

Laura Ann McCracken, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Jocelyne Bloch, Elvira Pirondini, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Vincent Delattre, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Karen Minassian, Esra Neufeld, Salif Axel Komi, Miroslav Caban, Andreas Rowald, Camille Georgette Marie Le Goff-Mignardot, Ismael Seanez Gonzalez

2018