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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2017

Neural Interfaces for Intracortical Recording: Requirements, Fabrication Methods, and Characteristics.

Katarzyna M Szostak, Laszlo Grand, Timothy G Constandinou

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Adhesion of retinal cells to gold surfaces by biomimetic molecules.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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  20. Dimensionality and Ramping: Signatures of Sentence Integration in the Dynamics of Brains and Deep Language Models.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Katarzyna M SzostakNext Generation Neural Interfaces Lab, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Laszlo GrandNext Generation Neural Interfaces Lab, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Timothy G ConstandinouNext Generation Neural Interfaces Lab, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Implantable neural interfaces for central nervous system research have been designed with wire, polymer, or micromachining technologies over the past 70 years. Research on biocompatible materials, ideal probe shapes, and insertion methods has resulted in building more and more capable neural interfaces. Although the trend is promising, the long-term reliability of such devices has not yet met the required criteria for chronic human application. The performance of neural interfaces in chronic settings often degrades due to foreign body response to the implant that is initiated by the surgical procedure, and related to the probe structure, and material properties used in fabricating the neural interface. In this review, we identify the key requirements for neural interfaces for intracortical recording, describe the three different types of probes-microwire, micromachined, and polymer-based probes; their materials, fabrication methods, and discuss their characteristics and related challenges.

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fabricationimplantableintracorticalmicroelectrodemicrosystemneural interfaceneural probe

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PMID29270103
PMCPMC5725438

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