Development of implantable devices for epilepsy: research with cats, dogs, and macaques in biomedical engineering

S Takara, H Kida, T Inoue - Advanced Robotics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In epilepsy treatment, besides medication and surgery, devices that modulate abnormal
brain activity are being developed. Intracranial devices like vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) …

Toward the Next Generation of Neural Iontronic Interfaces

C Forró, S Musall, VR Montes… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Neural interfaces are evolving at a rapid pace owing to advances in material science and
fabrication, reduced cost of scalable complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) …

Model-based correction of rapid thermal confounds in fluorescence neuroimaging of targeted perturbation

N Davoudi, H Estrada, A Özbek, S Shoham… - …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance An array of techniques for targeted neuromodulation is emerging, with high
potential in brain research and therapy. Calcium imaging or other forms of functional …

Preferential modulation of individual retinal ganglion cells by electrical stimulation

M Yunzab, A Soto-Breceda, M Maturana… - Journal of Neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Retinal prostheses have had limited success in vision restoration through
electrical stimulation of surviving retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in the degenerated retina …

Exploring relationships between autistic traits and body temperature, circadian rhythms, and age

S Hidaka, M Gotoh, S Yamamoto, M Wada - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The number of clinical diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is increasing annually.
Interestingly, the human body temperature has also been reported to gradually decrease …

Cytostatic hypothermia and its impact on glioblastoma and survival

SF Enam, CY Kilic, J Huang, BJ Kang, R Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Patients with glioblastoma (GBM) have limited options and require novel approaches to
treatment. Here, we studied and deployed nonfreezing “cytostatic” hypothermia to stunt GBM …

[HTML][HTML] Focused magnetic stimulation for motor recovery after stroke

JH Kim, M Jeong, H Kim, JH Kim, JW Ahn, B Son… - Brain Stimulation, 2024 - Elsevier
Background and objectives The effects of noninvasive focused magnetothermal brain
stimulation using magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) on post-stroke motor deficits and …

Focal cooling: An alternative treatment for drug‐resistant epilepsy in a mesial temporal lobe epilepsy primate model—A preliminary study

N Torres, E de Montalivet, Q Borntrager… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Focal cooling is emerging as a relevant therapy for drug‐resistant epilepsy (DRE).
However, we lack data on its effectiveness in controlling seizures that originate in deep …

Temperature-dependent structural plasticity of hippocampal synapses

Z Feng, L Saha, C Dritsa, Q Wan… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The function of the central nervous system (CNS) is strongly affected by temperature.
However, the underlying processes remain poorly understood. Here, we show that …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of focal cortical cooling on somatosensory evoked potentials in rats

M Gotoh, S Dezawa, I Takashima, S Yamamoto - Brain Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Although the focal brain cooling technique is widely used to examine brain function, the
effects of cortical temperature at various levels on sensory information processing and …