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Application of a high-density microelectrode array assay using a 3D human iPSC-derived brain microphysiological system model for in vitro neurotoxicity screening of environmental compounds

Unraveling the associations between human exposure to environmental chemicals and potential neurotoxicity presents significant challenges. Evaluation of neurotoxicity potential using animal testing is resource-intensive (financial, labor, and animal use) a ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Soft microelectrode arrays for 3D in vitro brain models

Eleonora Martinelli

Neural organoids and spheroids are three-dimensional (3D) in vitro brain models that mimic key aspects of human brain cellular composition, organization, and function. These models have become essential for studying brain development and neurological disor ...

EPFL2025

Advances on Real Time M/EEG Neural Feature Extraction

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Patrick Karl Alois Neff, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, Danpeng Cai

This paper introduces MNE-RT, a Python package designed for real-time neural feature extraction from magne-toencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) signals in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems. The package incorporates efficient algori ...

IEEE2025

Intracellular recording of cardiomyocyte action potentials with nanopatterned volcano-shaped microelectrodes

Benoît Xavier Emmanuel Desbiolles

Micro-nanotechnology based multielectrode arrays have led to remarkable progress in the field of transmembrane voltage recordings of excitable cells. However, electrode geometries alone have failed to produce a cell-electrode interface that is sufficiently ...

EPFL2020

GABA-mediated tonic inhibition differentially modulates gain in functional subtypes of cortical interneurons

Sean Lewis Hill, Christian Andreas Rössert, Bas-Jan Zandt

The binding of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) to extrasynaptic GABA(A) receptors generates tonic inhibition that acts as a powerful modulator of cortical network activity. Despite GABA being present throughout the extracellular space of the brain, previous ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Data driven building of realistic neuron model using IBEA and CMA evolution strategies

Henry Markram, Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit, Tanguy Pierre Louis Damart

Recently the building of large neuronal circuits from realistic neuron models has gained traction. This bottom-up approach relies on the accurate description of the primitive elements composing the brain such as neurons and astrocytes, that are then aggreg ...

ACM2020

Using Virtual Reality to Improve Prosthetic Vision in Daily Life

Sandrine Brikh

Blindness remains one of the most impairing disabilities worldwide, profoundly affecting independence, social participation, and quality of life. While assistive technologies offer partial support, they do not restore visual function. Retinal prostheses re ...

EPFL2025

Intracellular Recording of Cardiomyocyte Action Potentials with Nanopatterned Volcano-Shaped Microelectrode Arrays

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Benoît Xavier Emmanuel Desbiolles

Micronanotechnology-based multielectrode ar- rays have led to remarkable progress in the field of transmembrane voltage recording of excitable cells. However, providing long-term optoporation- or electroporation-free intracellular access remains a consider ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2019

Microchannel-based technologies for nerve interfacing

Sandra Gribi

Biomedical technologies in neuroprosthetics are made to restore or replace functions from the nervous system, as well as alleviate pathological conditions. Peripheral nerve interfaces use neuromodulatory techniques to inhibit pain or depression, prevent ep ...

EPFL2019

A Virtual Reality-Based Protocol to Determine the Preferred Control Strategy for Hand Neuroprostheses in People with Paralysis

Solaiman Shokur

Hand neuroprostheses restore voluntary movement in people with paralysis through neuromodulation protocols. There are a variety of strategies to control hand neuroprostheses, which can be based on residual body movements or brain activity. There is no univ ...

2024

Characterization of multi-channel intraneural stimulation in transradial amputees

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

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

Nonlinear microscopy for temporally and spatially resolved label-free imaging of living cells

Marie Eve Pascale Didier

The human brain consists of approximately a hundred billion of neurons that communicate through a unique series of biochemical and electrical processes. When neuronal networks are solicited, electrochemical processes happen involving millions of cells with ...

EPFL2018

Intelligent Neural Interfaces: An Emerging Era in Neurotechnology

Mahsa Shoaran, Uisub Shin, Mohammad Ali Shaeri

Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in the development of intelligent neural interface systems-on-chip (SoCs) for a range of neurological disorders and emerging brain-machine interface (BMI) applications. The shift toward creating intel ...

IEEE2024

Diamond microelectrode arrays for in vitro neuronal recordings

Michele Giugliano

A novel microfabrication technique for microelectrode arrays (MEAs) with a full diamond-cell interface is demonstrated. Boron-doped nano-crystalline diamond (BNCD) is used as a conductive electrode material on metal tracks insulated by intrinsic NCD. MEAs ...

Cambridge Univ Press2017

Brain-controlled spinal cord stimulation to restore mobility after spinal cord injury

Carmina Andrea Galvez Solano

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) affects almost 500,000 people every year, causing complete paralysis of both legs in severe cases, with no current treatment perspective. However, new neuroengineering technologies, such as the Brain Spine Interface (BSI), have eme ...

EPFL2023

Flexible Optoelectric Neural Interface Integrated Wire-Bonding mu LEDs and Microelectrocorticography for Optogenetics

Xiaoyang Kang

As an advanced brain-computer interface, the flexible surface electrodearrayhas been used for spatiotemporal localization of neural interactions by recording electrocorticography (ECoG) signals over brain cortical areas. Compared with the electrical stimul ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Biomimetic surface patterning for long-term transmembrane access

Philippe Renaud, Jules John Vandersarl

Here we present a planar patch clamp chip based on biomimetic cell membrane fusion. This architecture uses nanometer length-scale surface patterning to replicate the structure and function of membrane proteins, creating a gigaohm seal between the cell and ...

Nature Research2016

Development of new volcano-shaped microelectrodes for single cell electrochemistry, electrophysiology and impedance studies

Nicolas Grégoire Maïno

Micro- nano-electrodes have demonstrated superior performances in measuring attenuated intracellular action potentials from electrogenic cell cultures compared to traditional multi-electrode arrays. Yet, the understanding of the critical electrode features ...

EPFL2023

Brain mitochondrial diversity and network organization predict anxiety-like behavior in male mice

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

The brain and behavior are under energetic constraints, limited by mitochondrial energy transformation capacity. However, the mitochondria-behavior relationship has not been systematically studied at a brain-wide scale. Here we examined the association bet ...

Nature Research2023

Brief wide-field photostimuli evoke and modulate oscillatory reverberating activity in cortical networks

Michele Giugliano

Cell assemblies manipulation by optogenetics is pivotal to advance neuroscience and neuroengineering. In in vivo applications, photostimulation often broadly addresses a population of cells simultaneously, leading to feed-forward and to reverberating respo ...

Nature Research2016