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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2016

Toward a Proprioceptive Neural Interface that Mimics Natural Cortical Activity.

Tucker Tomlinson, Lee E Miller

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Tucker TomlinsonDepartment of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60611, USA.
Lee E MillerDepartment of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60611, USA. lm@northwestern.edu.

Funding

Development of a Bidirectional Brain Machine InterfaceR01NS048845 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI MILLER, LEE · 2005 to 2014
$6.7M
Biomimetic Somatosensory Feedback through IntracorticalmicrostimulationR01NS095251 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI BENSMAIA, SLIMAN, GRILL, WARREN M. · 2016 to 2020
$3.7M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS048845NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS095251
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dramatic advances in efferent neural interfaces over the past decade are remarkable, with cortical signals used to allow paralyzed patients to control the movement of a prosthetic limb or even their own hand. However, this success has thrown into relief, the relative lack of progress in our ability to restore somatosensation to these same patients. Somatosensation, including proprioception, the sense of limb position and movement, plays a crucial role in even basic motor tasks like reaching and walking. Its loss results in crippling deficits. Historical work dating back decades and even centuries has demonstrated that modality-specific sensations can be elicited by activating the central nervous system electrically. Recent work has focused on the challenge of refining these sensations by stimulating the somatosensory cortex (S1) directly. Animals are able to detect particular patterns of stimulation and even associate those patterns with particular sensory cues. Most of this work has involved areas of the somatosensory cortex that mediate the sense of touch. Very little corresponding work has been done for proprioception. Here we describe the effort to develop afferent neural interfaces through spatiotemporally precise intracortical microstimulation (ICMS). We review what is known of the cortical representation of proprioception, and describe recent work in our lab that demonstrates for the first time, that sensations like those of natural proprioception may be evoked by ICMS in S1. These preliminary findings are an important first step to the development of an afferent cortical interface to restore proprioception.

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AnimalsElectric StimulationHumansNeuronsProprioceptionSomatosensory CortexTouchTouch PerceptionIntracortical microstimulation (ICMS)ProsthesisSomatosensationSomatosensory cortex

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PMID28035576
PMCPMC5452683

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