ArticleNature communications2024
Patterned electrical brain stimulation by a wireless network of implantable microdevices.
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- Multitarget neurostimulation of the deep brain: clinical opportunities, challenges, and emerging technologies.Journal of neural engineering · 2025Review
- The Antidepressant Effect of Targeted Release of Ketamine-Loaded Nanodroplets Stimulated by Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound.Pharmaceutics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Transmitting meaningful information into brain circuits by electronic means is a challenge facing brain-computer interfaces. A key goal is to find an approach to inject spatially structured local current stimuli across swaths of sensory areas of the cortex. Here, we introduce a wireless approach to multipoint patterned electrical microstimulation by a spatially distributed epicortically implanted network of silicon microchips to target specific areas of the cortex. Each sub-millimeter-sized microchip harvests energy from an external radio-frequency source and converts this into biphasic current injected focally into tissue by a pair of integrated microwires. The amplitude, period, and repetition rate of injected current from each chip are controlled across the implant network by implementing a pre-scheduled, collision-free bitmap wireless communication protocol featuring sub-millisecond latency. As a proof-of-concept technology demonstration, a network of 30 wireless stimulators was chronically implanted into motor and sensory areas of the cortex in a freely moving rat for three months. We explored the effects of patterned intracortical electrical stimulation on trained animal behavior at average RF powers well below regulatory safety limits.
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