Traditionally, brain-machine interfaces (BMI) recorded from neurons in cerebralcortical regions associated with voluntary motor control including primary motor(M1), primary somatosensory (S1), and dorsal premotor (PMd) cortices. ...

Interacting with the world is a two-step process of accurate sensing followed by coordinated movement. Optimization of biologically-inspired robotic systems benefits from the quantification and modeling of natural sensorimotor ...

A hallmark of human behavior is serial decision-making, in which decisions are linked across time: the choices we make are informed by our past decisions and, in turn, influence our future decisions. Flexible, accurate ...

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) offer the potential to assist millions of people worldwide suffering from immobility due to loss of limbs, paralysis, and neurodegenerative diseases. BMIs function by decoding neural activity ...

The spinal cord is an information highway continuously transmitting afferent and efferent signals to and from the brain. Although spinal cord stimulation has been used for the treatment of chronic pain for decades, its potential ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established surgical therapy for movement disorders. The mechanisms of action of DBS remain unclear, and selection of stimulation parameters is a clinical challenge and can result in sub-optimal ...

In recent years, large-scale brain recordings in nonhuman primates have been a driving force for both fundamental neuroscience and the field of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). This required monkey implants connected to ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) and neurological diseases can cause lower urinary tract (LUT) dysfunction, significantly disrupting normal urine storage (continence) and efficient bladder emptying (micturition). Electrical stimulation ...

Understanding the structure of the brain has been a major goal of neuroscience research over the past century, driven in part by the understanding that brain structure closely follows function. Normative brain maps, or atlases, ...

Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI) strive to restore motor and sensory functions lost due to paralysis, amputation, and neurological diseases by interfacing brain circuitry to external actuators in form of a cursor on a computer ...