Publications de Solaiman Shokur

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Neurotechnologies to restore hand functions

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

Our research path toward the restoration of natural sensations in hand prostheses

Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur

The human hand, with its intricate sensory capabilities, plays a pivotal role in our daily interactions with the world. This remarkable organ possesses a wide range of natural sensors that enrich our experiences, enabling us to perceive touch, position, an ...

2024

Non-invasive, Brain-controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation for Locomotion Rehabilitation in Individuals with Paraplegia

Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur, Miguel Nicolelis

Spinal cord injury (SCI) impairs the flow of sensory and motor signals between the brain and the areas of the body located below the lesion level. Here, we describe a neurorehabilitation setup combining several approaches that were shown to have a positive ...

Nature Research2019

Gait pattern prediction via bilateral neural ensemble recordings in motor cortex in rats

Hannes Bleuler, Solaiman Shokur, Miguel Nicolelis

We are interested in developing and building an experimental system for controlling a quadruped robot with a brain-derived signal of a rat. We recorded large ensembles of neurones in left M1 and right M1 and S1 using chronically implanted multi-electrodes ...

Fens2008

EPFL-Smart-Kitchen-30 Annotations and Poses

Silvestro Micera, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Solaiman Shokur, Alexander Mathis, Mahdi Hamidi Rad, Haozhe Qi, Franklin Leong, Andy Bonnetto, Matea Tashkovska

Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from choppi ...

Zenodo2025

Biomechanical aspects that precede freezing episode during gait in individuals with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review

Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur

Background: The freezing episode (FE) management during gait in Parkinson's disease is inefficient with current medications, neurosurgery, and physical interventions. Knowing the biomechanical change patients suffer preceding FE would be the ultimate goal ...

ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD2022

Creating a neuroprosthesis for active tactile exploration of textures

Solaiman Shokur, Miguel Nicolelis

Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) can produce percepts that mimic somatic sensation and, thus, has potential as an approach to sensorize prosthetic limbs. However, it is not known whether ICMS could recreate act ...

National Academy of Sciences2019

Remapping Wetness Perception in Upper Limb Amputees

Nerea-Isabel Carbonell Muñoz, Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Outman Akouissi, Jonathan Louis Muheim, Maria Ploumitsakou

Recent research has made remarkable strides in restoring sensory feedback for prosthetic users, including tactile, proprioceptive, and thermal feedback. Herein, a sensory modality that has been largely neglected is explored: the ability to perceive wetness ...

Wiley2024

Optimization frameworks for bespoke sensory encoding in neuroprosthetics

Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Franklin Leong

Restoring natural sensation via neuroprosthetics relies on the possibility of encoding complex and nuanced information. For example, an ideal brain–machine interface with sensory feedback would provide the user with sensation about movement, pressure, curv ...

AIP Publishing2025

Kinematics predictors of spatiotemporal parameters during gait differ by age in healthy individuals

Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur

Joint biomechanics and spatiotemporal gait parameters change with age or disease and are used in treatment decision-making. Research question: To investigate whether kinematic predictors of spatiotemporal parameters during gait differ by age in healthy ind ...

ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD2022

Postural Control in Parkinson’s Disease

Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur

Balance impairment is a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), suggesting the reclassification of the PD to a tetrad: rest tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and balance impairment. Falling is the most evident symptom of inadequate balance. Falls are exp ...

Springer International Publishing2023

An Investigation of Manifold-Based Direct Control for a Brain-to-Body Neural Bypass

Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Evgenia Vladimirova Roussinova

Objective: Brain-body interfaces (BBIs) have emerged as a very promising solution for restoring voluntary hand control in people with upper-limb paralysis. The BBI module decoding motor commands from brain signals should provide the user with intuitive, ac ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Detecting Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease Patient via Deep Residual Network

Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur

Freezing of Gait (FoG) is a common condition in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). It often leads to falls, and it severely affects the patient's quality of life. Although the neural mechanism of FoG is not well-known, wearable sensorbased assistive s ...

IEEE2021

Expanding the primate body schema in sensorimotor cortex by virtual touches of an avatar

Hannes Bleuler, Solaiman Shokur, Miguel Nicolelis

The brain representation of the body, called the body schema, is susceptible to plasticity. For instance, subjects experiencing a rubber hand illusion develop a sense of ownership of a mannequin hand when they view it being touched while tactile stimuli ar ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Exploring Skill Generalization with an Extra Robotic Arm for Motor Augmentation

Hugo Nicolas Victor Dirat, Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Giulia Dominijanni

Recent research demonstrates that naïve users can be trained to perform complex motor tasks, including trimanual activities, using an extra robotic arm (XRA). While previous studies show task‐specific improvements with XRAs, it remains uncertain whether sk ...

Wiley2025

A modular strategy for next-generation upper-limb sensory-motor neuroprostheses

Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Giuseppe Schiavone

Neuroprosthetics is a discipline that aims at restoring lost functions to people affected by a variety of neurological disorders or neuro-traumatic lesions. It combines the expertise of computer science and electrical, mechanical, and micro/nanotechnology ...

ELSEVIER2021

Effect of disease, freezing of gait, and dopaminergic medication in the biomechanics of trunk and upper limbs in the gait of Parkinson's disease

Solaiman Shokur

Introduction: Parkinson's disease (PD) causes gait abnormalities that may be associated with an arm swing reduction. Medication and freezing of gait (FoG) may influence gait characteristics. However, these comparisons do not consider differences in gait sp ...

2024

Automated Selectivity-Driven Algorithm for Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation

Riccardo Carpineto, Silvestro Micera, Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur, Mouhamed Zorkot

Spinal cord injury (SCI) impairs motor function and quality of life. Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation (tSCS) is a non-invasive method to restore motor function by activating spinal circuits below the lesion. However, its effectiveness is limited by i ...

IEEE2025

The neural resource allocation problem when enhancing human bodies with extra robotic limbs

Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Giulia Dominijanni

The emergence of robotic body augmentation provides exciting innovations that will revolutionize the fields of robotics, human-machine interaction and wearable electronics. Although augmentative devices such as extra robotic arms and fingers are informed b ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Thermal sensing device and sensory feedback system and method using such thermal sensing device

Silvestro Micera, Solaiman Shokur, Outman Akouissi, Jonathan Louis Muheim

The present invention concerns a thermal sensing device (1) and a sensory feedback system and method using such thermal sensing device, comprising at least one film (19) of electrically insulating polymer defining a global surface of the thermal sensing de ...

2024