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Immersive VR for upper-extremity rehabilitation in patients with neurological disorders: a scoping review

Background Neurological disorders, such as stroke and chronic pain syndromes, profoundly impact independence and quality of life, especially when affecting upper extremity (UE) function. While conventional physical therapy has shown effectiveness in provid ...

BioMed Central2024

System for control of spasticity

Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Salif Axel Komi, Karen Minassian

The present invention relates to a neuromodulation/neurostimulation system (10) for the treatment of spasticity in a mammal, said system (10) comprising: - at least one control unit (12) configured and arranged to provide stimulation data, and - at least o ...

2024

Non-invasive spinal cord electrical stimulation for arm and hand function in chronic tetraplegia: a safety and efficacy trial

Grégoire Courtine, Jordan Squair

Cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to permanent impairment of arm and hand functions. Here we conducted a prospective, single-arm, multicenter, open-label, non-significant risk trial that evaluated the safety and efficacy of ARCEX Therapy to improve a ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Neuromodulation/neurostimulation system for mitigating locomotor deficits of parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury (sci), stroke and/or other neurological disorders

Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch, Jordan Squair, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Léonie Asboth, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Tomislav Milekovic, Newton Cho

The present invention relates to a combined neuromodulation and/or neurostimulation system (10) for mitigating locomotor deficits of/or neuronal disorders, especially Parkinson's disease, said system (10) comprising: - at least one Deep Brain Stimulation ( ...

2023

Human-machine interface for two-dimensional steering control with the auricular muscles

Daniel Jose Lins Leal Pinheiro, Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur

Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) can be used to decode a user's motor intention to control an external device. People that suffer from motor disabilities, such as spinal cord injury, can benefit from the uses of these interfaces. While many solutions can be ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

An immersive virtual reality system for ecological assessment of peripersonal and extrapersonal unilateral spatial neglect

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi, Ravi Tej Sai Giridhar Tadi

BackgroundUnilateral spatial neglect (USN) is a debilitating neuropsychological syndrome that often follows brain injury, in particular a stroke affecting the right hemisphere. In current clinical practice, the assessment of neglect is based on old-fashion ...

BioMed Central2023

Out-of-body illusion induced by visual-vestibular stimulation

Estelle Nakul, Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka, Florian Lance, Hsin-Ping Wu

Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are characterized by the subjective feeling of being located outside one's physical body and perceiving one's own body from an elevated perspective looking downwards. OBEs have been correlated with abnormal integration of bod ...

Cell Press2023

Molecular reconstruction and simulation of the Neuron-Glia-Vasculature system

Polina Shichkova

The outstanding information processing capacity of the brain relies on numerous molecular mechanisms. It is an extremely energy-expensive function, which involves specialization and collaboration of different cell types. A common framework to study the com ...

EPFL2023

Sensory-Motor Neurostimulation to Enhance Exosuit Performance

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Giacomo Valle, Andrea Crema

Exosuits typically provide limited mechanical support and rely on a user's residual functional ability. However, people with neurological impairments often suffer from both motor and sensory deficits that limit the assistance an exosuit can provide. To ove ...

IEEE2023

Harmonization of multi-scanner in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy: ENIGMA consortium task group considerations

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a powerful, non-invasive, quantitative imaging technique that allows for the measurement of brain metabolites that has demonstrated utility in diagnosing and characterizing a broad range of neurological diseases. Its impa ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Digital reconstruction of the mammalian spinal cord: from anatomical reference volume to cell type atlas of the mouse spinal cord

Ihor Kuras

The spinal cord is an elongated nervous structure that together with the brain forms the central nervous system. It relays sensory and motor information between the brain and the body, thus controlling most somatic and autonomic body functions. In recent y ...

EPFL2023

Real-time Personalized Monitoring of Neurological Disorders on Wearable Systems

Renato Zanetti

The terminology of neurological disorders encompasses a range of serious illnesses (e.g., epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease) leading to morbidity, disability, and stigma. Epilepsy alone affects over 50 million people worldwide, and these figures are rising as ...

EPFL2023

Longitudinal interrogation of sympathetic neural circuits and hemodynamics in preclinical models

Victor Perez Puchalt, Jan Elaine Cuevas Soriano, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Jordan Squair, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Loïs Thomas Romain Mahe, Rémi Bernard René Hudelle, Suje Amir

Neurological disorders, including spinal cord injury, result in hemodynamic instability due to the disruption of supraspinal projections to the sympathetic circuits located in the spinal cord. We recently developed a preclinical model that allows the ident ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Multi-centre classification of functional neurological disorders based on resting-state functional connectivity

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Jonas Richiardi

Background: Patients suffering from functional neurological disorder (FND) experience disabling neurological symptoms not caused by an underlying classical neurological disease (such as stroke or multiple sclerosis). The diagnosis is made based on reliable ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Neuroscience robotics for controlled induction and real-time assessment of hallucinations

Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Fosco Bernasconi, Jevita Potheegadoo, Eva Blondiaux, Laurent Frédéric Jenni, Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho

Although hallucinations are important and frequent symptoms in major psychiatric and neurological diseases, little is known about their brain mechanisms. Hallucinations are unpredictable and private experiences, making their investigation, quantification a ...

Nature Publishing Group2022

Impact of interhemispheric inhibition on bimanual movement control in young and old

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita

Interhemispheric interactions demonstrate a crucial role for directing bimanual movement control. In humans, a well-established paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation paradigm enables to assess these interactions by means of interhemispheric inhibi ...

SPRINGER2022

Single cell atlas of spinal cord injury in mice reveals a pro-regenerative signature in spinocerebellar neurons

Grégoire Courtine, Jordan Squair, Claudia Kathe

After spinal cord injury, tissue distal to the lesion contains undamaged cells that could support or augment recovery. Targeting these cells requires a clearer understanding of their injury responses and capacity for repair. Here, we use single nucleus RNA ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Gait Variability to Phenotype Common Orthopedic Gait Impairments Using Wearable Sensors

Wei Zhang

Mobility impairments are a common symptom of age-related degenerative diseases. Gait features can discriminate those with mobility disorders from healthy individuals, yet phenotyping specific pathologies remains challenging. This study aims to identify if ...

MDPI2022

Natural and targeted circuit reorganization after spinal cord injury

Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch, Quentin Barraud, Jordan Squair, Claudia Kathe, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Mark Andrew Anderson, Thomas Haynes Hutson

The authors summarize changes in circuits after spinal cord injury and current strategies to target these circuits in order to improve recovery, but also advocate for new concepts of reorganizing circuits informed by multi-omic single-cell atlases. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback: Methods and Application to Chronic Tinnitus

Nicolas Gninenko

In the last twenty years, advances in real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) have offered exciting new tools to study the human brain. One of them, termed rt-fMRI neurofeedback (NF), has turned the MRI scanner environment into an interac ...

EPFL2022