Category Archives: Published Research

Closed-loop stimulation of temporal cortex rescues functional networks and improves memory Youssef Ezzyat, Paul A. Wanda, Deborah F. Levy, Allison Kadel, Ada Aka, Isaac Pedisich, Michael R. Sperling, Ashwini D. Sharan, Bradley C. Lega, Alexis Burks, Robert E. Gross, Cory S. Inman, Barbara C. Jobst, Mark A. Gorenstein, Kathryn A. Davis, Gregory A. Worrell, Michal…

Restoration of motor control and proprioceptive and cutaneous sensation in humans with prior upper-limb amputation via multiple Utah Slanted Electrode Arrays (USEAs) implanted in residual peripheral arm nerves Suzanne Wendelken, David M. Page, Tyler Davis, Heather A. C. Wark, David T. Kluger, Christopher Duncan, David J. Warren, Douglas T. Hutchinson and Gregory A. Clark Journal…

Direct Brain Stimulation Modulates Encoding States and Memory Performance in Humans Youssef Ezzyat, James E. Kragel, John F. Burke, Deborah F. Levy, Anastasia Lyalenko, Paul Wanda, Logan O’Sullivan, Katherine B. Hurley, Stanislav Busygin, Isaac Pedisich, Michael R. Sperling, Gregory A. Worrell, Michal T. Kucewicz, Kathryn A. Davis, Timothy H. Lucas, Cory S. Inman, Bradley C.…

Restoration of reaching and grasping movements through brain-controlled muscle stimulation in a person with tetraplegia: a proof-of-concept demonstration Dr A Bolu Ajiboye, PhD†, Francis R Willett, BS†, Daniel R Young, BS, William D Memberg, MS, Brian A Murphy, PhD, Jonathan P Miller, MD, Benjamin L Walter, MD, Jennifer A Sweet, MD, Harry A Hoyen, MD,…

Intracortical microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex Sharlene N. Flesher, Jennifer L. Collinger, Stephen T. Foldes, Jeffrey M. Weiss, John E. Downey, Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara, Sliman J. Bensmaia, Andrew B. Schwartz, Michael L. Boninger, and Robert A. Gaunt* Science Translational Medicine  2016  Published Online © The Author(s). 2016 Published: 19 October 2016 A sense of touch…

Single-trial dynamics of motor cortex and their applications to brain-machine interfaces Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Stephen I. Ryu, Mark M. Churchland, John P. Cunningham & Krishna V. Shenoy Nature Communications  2015  6:7759 © The Author(s). 2015 Published: 29 July 2015 Abstract Increasing evidence suggests that neural population responses have their own internal drive, or…

Rapid Encoding of New Memories by Individual Neurons in the Human Brain Matias J. Ison, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Itzhak Fried Neuron  2015  87:220-230 © The Author(s). 2015 Published: 01 July 2015 Highlights • Contextual associations were used to model the formation of new memories • Human single neurons changed their firing patterns to encode new…

Decoding motor imagery from the posterior parietal cortex of a tetraplegic human Tyson Aflalo, Spencer Kellis, Christian Klaes, Brian Lee, Ying Shi, Kelsie Pejsa, Kathleen Shanfield, Stephanie Hayes-Jackson, Mindy Aisen, Christi Heck, Charles Liu, Richard A. Andersen Science  2015  348:906-910 © The Author(s). 2015 Published: 22 May 2015 Brain imagination to control external devices Studies…

Ten-dimensional anthropomorphic arm control in a human brain−machine interface: difficulties, solutions, and limitations B Wodlinger, J E Downey, E C Tyler-Kabara, A B Schwartz, M L Boninger and J L Collinger Journal of Neural Engineering  2014  Vol. 12 © The Author(s). 2014 Published: 16 December 2014 Abstract Objective. In a previous study we demonstrated continuous…

Wireless Neurosensor for Full-Spectrum Electrophysiology Recordings during Free Behavior Ming Yin, David A. Borton, Jacob Komar, Naubahar Agha, Yao Lu, Hao Li, Jean Laurens, Yiran Lang, Qin Li, Christopher Bull, Lawrence Larson, David Rosler, Erwan Bezard, Grégoire Courtine, Arto V. Nurmikko Neuron  2014  84:1170-1182 © The Author(s). 2014 Published: 04 December 2014 Highlights • Compact,…