Restoration of sensory information via bionic hands

SJ Bensmaia, DJ Tyler, S Micera - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Individuals who have lost the use of their hands because of amputation or spinal cord injury
can use prosthetic hands to restore their independence. A dexterous prosthesis requires the …

Clinical Applications and Future Translation of Somatosensory Neuroprostheses

E Graczyk, B Hutchison, G Valle, D Bjanes… - Journal of …, 2024 - jneurosci.org
Somatosensory neuroprostheses restore, replace, or enhance tactile and proprioceptive
feedback for people with sensory impairments due to neurological disorders or injury …

Biomimetic computer-to-brain communication enhancing naturalistic touch sensations via peripheral nerve stimulation

G Valle, N Katic Secerovic, D Eggemann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial communication with the brain through peripheral nerve stimulation shows promising
results in individuals with sensorimotor deficits. However, these efforts lack an intuitive and …

A portable, programmable, multichannel stimulator with high compliance voltage for noninvasive neural stimulation of motor and sensory nerves in humans

MA Trout, AT Harrison, MR Brinton, JA George - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Most neural stimulators do not have a high enough compliance voltage to pass current
through the skin. The few stimulators that meet the high compliance voltage necessary for …

Multiparametric non-linear TENS modulation to integrate intuitive sensory feedback

V Bucciarelli, N Gozzi, N Katic, G Aiello… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) has been recently introduced
in neurorehabilitation and neuroprosthetics as a promising, non-invasive sensory feedback …

Sensory restoration for improved motor control of prostheses

LE Fisher, RA Gaunt, H Huang - Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
120 words) Somatosensory neuroprostheses are devices with the potential to restore the
senses of touch and movement from prosthetic limbs for people with limb amputation or …

Evaluation of multiple perceptual qualities of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for evoked tactile sensation in forearm amputees

J Zhang, M Hao, F Yang, W Liang, A Sun… - Journal of Neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Evoked tactile sensation (ETS) elicited by transcutaneous electrical nerve
stimulation (TENS) is promising to convey digit-specific sensory information to amputees …

Biophysics of frequency-dependent variation in paresthesia and pain relief during spinal cord stimulation

ER Rogers, M Capogrosso, SF Lempka - Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 - jneurosci.org
The neurophysiological effects of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic pain are poorly
understood, resulting in inefficient failure-prone programming protocols and inadequate …

Non-rectangular neurostimulation waveforms elicit varied sensation quality and perceptive fields on the hand

R Collu, EJ Earley, M Barbaro, M Ortiz-Catalan - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Electrical stimulation of the nerves is known to elicit distinct sensations perceived in distal
parts of the body. The stimulation is typically modulated in current with charge-balanced …

Interleaved multi-contact peripheral nerve stimulation to enhance reproduction of tactile sensation: a computational modeling study

TM Tebcherani, KA Loparo, F Kaffashi… - … on Neural Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) is an effective means to elicit sensation for rehabilitation
of people with loss of a limb or limb function. While most current PNS paradigms deliver …