The desire for functional replacement of a missing hand is an ancient one. Historically,
humans have replaced a missing limb with a prosthesis for cosmetic, vocational, or personal …

Objective. Tetraplegic patients using brain–machine interfaces can make visually guided
reaches with robotic arms. However, restoring proprioceptive feedback to these patients will …

Current neural prostheses can restore limb movement to tetraplegic patients by translating
brain signals coding movements to control a variety of actuators. Fast and accurate …

Microstimulation in the somatosensory cortex can evoke artificial tactile percepts and can be
incorporated into bidirectional brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to restore function after …

Objective. For high-level peripheral nerve injuryed (PNI) patients with severe sensory
dysfunction of upper extremities, identifying the multi-site tactile stimulation is of great …

Persons with spinal cord injuries can use state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces to control
robotic arms. Despite this high-tech solution, their movements are slow and imprecise, much …

After limb amputation, the majority of amputees report the presence of phantom limb pain
(PLP), whereby chronic painful sensations are localised in the missing limb. In this thesis I …

Our understanding of how brains function is stratified between two very different scales:
mesoscale (what function a given cortical area performs), measured with tools like fMRI; and …