Extracellular voltage profile for reversing the recruitment order of peripheral nerve stimulation: a simulation study.

abstract：:Rational selection of electrical stimulus parameters for an electronic retinal prosthesis requires knowledge of the electrophysiological responses of retinal neurons to electrical stimuli. In this study, we examined the effects of cathodal and anodal current pulses on the extracellularly recorded responses of OFF and ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Jensen RJ,Ziv OR,Rizzo JF

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the internal segment of the globus pallidus (GPi) in patients with Parkinson's disease and dystonia improves motor symptoms and quality of life. Traditionally, pallidal borders have been demarcated by electrophysiological microelectrode recordings (MERs) during DBS surgery. How...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Valsky D,Blackwell KT,Tamir I,Eitan R,Bergman H,Israel Z

更新日期：2020-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Visual prostheses are designed to restore partial functional vision in patients with total vision loss. Retinal visual prostheses provide limited capabilities as a result of low resolution, limited field of view and poor dynamic range. Understanding the influence of these parameters in the perception results ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Sanchez-Garcia M,Martinez-Cantin R,Bermudez-Cameo J,Guerrero JJ

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this paper was to characterize brain non-stationarity during an auditory oddball task in schizophrenia (SCH). The level of non-stationarity was measured in the baseline and response windows of relevant tones in SCH patients and healthy controls. APPROACH:Event-related potentials were recorded from...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Núñez P,Poza J,Bachiller A,Gomez-Pilar J,Lubeiro A,Molina V,Hornero R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can help patients who have lost control over most muscles but are still conscious and able to communicate or interact with the environment. One of the most popular types of BCI is the P300-based BCI. With this BCI, users are asked to count the number of appearances of target s...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Jin J,Zhang H,Daly I,Wang X,Cichocki A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural models are increasingly being used as design components of physical systems. In order to best use models in these novel contexts, we must develop design rules that describe how decisions in model construction relate to the functional performance of the resulting system. In the accompanying paper, we described a...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Sorensen ME,DeWeerth SP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spike detection from extracellular recordings is a crucial preprocessing step when analyzing neuronal activity. The decision whether a specific part of the signal is a spike or not is important for any kind of other subsequent preprocessing steps, like spike sorting or burst detection in order to reduce the c...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Lieb F,Stark HG,Thielemann C

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Given the rapid expansion of the field of neural stimulation and the rigorous regulatory approval requirements required before these devices can be applied clinically, it is important that there is clarity around conducting preclinical safety and efficacy studies required for the development of this technolog...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Shepherd RK,Villalobos J,Burns O,Nayagam DAX

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a wheelchair navigation system based on a hidden Markov model (HMM), which we developed to assist those with restricted mobility. The semi-autonomous system is equipped with obstacle/collision avoidance sensors and it takes the electrooculography (EOG) signal traces from the user as commands to man...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Aziz F,Arof H,Mokhtar N,Mubin M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationships of the firing rate and maximal recruitment threshold of motoneurons recorded during isometric contraction with the number of spindles in individual muscles. At force levels above 10% of maximal voluntary contraction, the firing rate was inversely related to the number of spindles in a...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： De Luca CJ,Kline JC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In models of electrical stimulation of the nervous system, the electric potential is typically calculated using the quasi-static approximation. The quasi-static approximation allows Maxwell's equations to be simplified by ignoring capacitive, inductive and wave propagation contributions to the potential. While this si...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Bossetti CA,Birdno MJ,Grill WM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intracranial EEG (iEEG) or micro-electrocorticography (µECoG) microelectrodes offer high spatial resolution in recordings of neuronal activity from the exposed brain surface. Reliability of dielectric substrates and conductive materials of these devices are under intensive research in terms of functional stab...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Zátonyi A,Fedor F,Borhegyi Z,Fekete Z

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A major difficulty of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology is dealing with the noise of EEG and its signal variations. Previous works studied time-dependent non-stationarities for BCIs in which the user's mental task was independent of the device operation (e.g., the mental task was motor imagery and the...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Iturrate I,Montesano L,Minguez J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The rapidly developing paradigm of closed-loop neuroscience has extensively employed brain rhythms as the signal forming real-time neurofeedback, triggering brain stimulation, or governing stimulus selection. However, the efficacy of brain rhythm contingent paradigms suffers from significant delays related to...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Smetanin N,Belinskaya A,Lebedev M,Ossadtchi A

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Medical implants made of non-biological materials provoke a chronic inflammatory response, resulting in the deposition of a collagenous scar tissue (ST) layer on their surface, that gradually thickens over time. This is a critical problem for neural interfaces. Scar build-up on electrodes results in a progres...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： FitzGerald JJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Retinal prosthetic implants restore partial vision to patients blinded due to outer retinal degeneration, using a camera-guided multielectrode array (MEA) that electrically stimulates surviving retinal neurons. Commercial epi-retinal prostheses use millisecond-scale charge-balanced, symmetric, cathodic-first ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Chang YC,Haji Ghaffari D,Chow RH,Weiland JD

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic aggregation assay and impedance sensing (IS) were used to monitor a change in in vitro neuron-neuron adhesion in response to blocking of cell adhesion molecules. By blocking neuron-neuron adhesion, migration and aggregation of neuronal cells can be inhibited. This leads to better control of spatial arrange...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Wiertz RW,Marani E,Rutten WL

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to compare the use of muscles appropriate for partial-hand prostheses with those typically used for complete hand devices and to determine whether differences in their underlying neural substrates translate to different levels of myoelectric control. APPROACH:We developed a no...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Dyson M,Barnes J,Nazarpour K

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The advancement of surface electromyogram (sEMG) recording and signal processing techniques has allowed us to characterize the recruitment properties of a substantial population of motor units (MUs) non-invasively. Here we seek to determine whether MU recruitment properties are modified in paretic muscles of ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Hu X,Suresh AK,Rymer WZ,Suresh NL

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Most brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) based on functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) require that users perform mental tasks such as motor imagery, mental arithmetic, or music imagery to convey a message or to answer simple yes or no questions. These cognitive tasks usually have no direct association ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Rezazadeh Sereshkeh A,Yousefi R,Wong AT,Chau T

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most important stages in a brain-computer interface (BCI) system is that of extracting features that can reliably discriminate data recorded during different user states. A popular technique used for feature extraction in BCIs is the common spatial patterns (CSP) method, which provides a set of spatial filt...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Falzon O,Camilleri KP,Muscat J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:For intracortical brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), action potential voltage waveforms are often sorted to separate out individual neurons. If these neurons contain independent tuning information, this process could increase BMI performance. However, the sorting of action potentials ('spikes') requires high sa...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Christie BP,Tat DM,Irwin ZT,Gilja V,Nuyujukian P,Foster JD,Ryu SI,Shenoy KV,Thompson DE,Chestek CA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Currently commercially available nerve conduits have demonstrated suboptimal clinical efficacy in repairing peripheral nerve defects. Although tissue-engineered nerve grafts (TENGs) with sustained release of neurotrophic factors (NTFs) are experimentally proved to be more effective than these blank conduits, ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Liu Y,Yu S,Gu X,Cao R,Cui S

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:By means of subjective psychophysical methods, quality of transmitted speech has been decomposed into three perceptual dimensions named 'discontinuity' (F), 'noisiness' (N) and 'coloration' (C). Previous studies using electroencephalography (EEG) already reported effects of perceived intensity of single quali...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Uhrig S,Mittag G,Möller S,Voigt-Antons JN

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intramuscular electromyography (iEMG) signals, non-invasively recorded, directly from the muscles are used to diagnose various neuromuscular disorders/diseases, also to control rehabilitative and assistive robotic devices. iEMG signals are being potentially used in neurology, kinesiology, rehabilitation, and ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Ashraf H,Waris A,Gilani SO,Kashif AS,Jamil M,Jochumsen M,Niazi IK

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) implemented with real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) use fMRI time-courses from predefined regions of interest (ROIs). To reach best performances, localizer experiments and on-site expert supervision are required for ROI definition. To automate this step,...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Lührs M,Sorger B,Goebel R,Esposito F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we investigate the influence of hypercapnia on the dynamics of the phrenic neurogram in the piglet in two different age groups: 3-7 days (n = 11) and 10-16 days (n = 9). The phrenic neurogram was recorded from 17 piglets (3-16 days old) during control (40% O(2) with 3-5% end-tidal CO(2)), mild hypercapn...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Akay M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we propose a simple and straightforward algorithm for neural spike sorting. The algorithm is based on the observation that the distribution of a neural signal largely deviates from the uniform distribution and is rather unimodal. The detected spikes to be sorted are first processed with some feature ext...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Tiganj Z,Mboup M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the technological developments underlying the realization of a reliable and reproducible microchip-based stimulator with a large number of stimulus electrodes. A microchip-based stimulator with over 500 electrodes for suprachoroidal transretinal stimulation (STS) is proposed in this paper, and an ...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Ohta J,Tokuda T,Kagawa K,Sugitani S,Taniyama M,Uehara A,Terasawa Y,Nakauchi K,Fujikado T,Tano Y

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some issues in neuroscience can be addressed by building robot models of biological sensorimotor systems. What we can conclude from building models or simulations, however, is determined by a number of factors in addition to the central hypothesis we intend to test. These include the way in which the hypothesis is rep...

journal_title：Journal of neural engineering

authors： Webb B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00