State-of-the-art MEMS and microsystem tools for brain research

JP Seymour, F Wu, KD Wise, E Yoon - Microsystems & …, 2017 - nature.com
Map** brain activity has received growing worldwide interest because it is expected to
improve disease treatment and allow for the development of important neuromorphic …

Mechanisms of top-down attention

F Baluch, L Itti - Trends in neurosciences, 2011 - cell.com
Attention exhibits characteristic neural signatures in brain regions that process sensory
signals. An important area of future research is to understand the nature of top-down signals …

A fully automated approach to spike sorting

JE Chung, JF Magland, AH Barnett, VM Tolosa… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Understanding the detailed dynamics of neuronal networks will require the simultaneous
measurement of spike trains from hundreds of neurons (or more). Currently, approaches to …

A high-performance neural prosthesis enabled by control algorithm design

V Gilja, P Nuyujukian, CA Chestek… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Neural prostheses translate neural activity from the brain into control signals for guiding
prosthetic devices, such as computer cursors and robotic limbs, and thus offer individuals …

Single-neuron dynamics in human focal epilepsy

W Truccolo, JA Donoghue, LR Hochberg… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Epileptic seizures are traditionally characterized as the ultimate expression of monolithic,
hypersynchronous neuronal activity arising from unbalanced runaway excitation. Here we …

Gaussian-process factor analysis for low-dimensional single-trial analysis of neural population activity

BM Yu, JP Cunningham… - Advances in neural …, 2008 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We consider the problem of extracting smooth low-dimensional neural trajectories''that
summarize the activity recorded simultaneously from tens to hundreds of neurons on …

Emergence of a stable cortical map for neuroprosthetic control

K Ganguly, JM Carmena - PLoS biology, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Cortical control of neuroprosthetic devices is known to require neuronal adaptations. It
remains unclear whether a stable cortical representation for prosthetic function can be …

Virtual ty** by people with tetraplegia using a self-calibrating intracortical brain-computer interface

B Jarosiewicz, AA Sarma, D Bacher… - Science translational …, 2015 - science.org
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) promise to restore independence for people with severe
motor disabilities by translating decoded neural activity directly into the control of a …

Time multiplexed active neural probe with 1356 parallel recording sites

BC Raducanu, RF Yazicioglu, CM Lopez, M Ballini… - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
We present a high electrode density and high channel count CMOS (complementary metal-
oxide-semiconductor) active neural probe containing 1344 neuron sized recording pixels …

Direct control of paralysed muscles by cortical neurons

CT Moritz, SI Perlmutter, EE Fetz - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
A potential treatment for paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury is to route control signals
from the brain around the injury by artificial connections. Such signals could then control …