Challenges and opportunities of implantable neural interfaces: From material, electrochemical and biological perspectives

Q Zeng, Z Huang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The desirable implantable neural interfaces can accurately record bioelectrical signals from
neurons and regulate neural activities with high spatial/time resolution, facilitating the …

Retinal prostheses: Engineering and clinical perspectives for vision restoration

KY Wu, M Mina, JY Sahyoun, A Kalevar, SD Tran - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
A retinal prosthesis, also known as a bionic eye, is a device that can be implanted to partially
restore vision in patients with retinal diseases that have resulted in the loss of …

Towards the translation of electroconductive organic materials for regeneration of neural tissues

E Manousiouthakis, J Park, JG Hardy, JY Lee… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon-based conductive and electroactive materials (eg, derivatives of graphene,
fullerenes, polypyrrole, polythiophene, polyaniline) have been studied since the 1970s for …

Advances in visual prostheses: engineering and biological challenges

E Borda, D Ghezzi - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Vision is an extraordinary sense through which we can appreciate the beauty of the world
we live in, gain invaluable knowledge and communicate with others using visual expression …

Organic bioelectronics: using highly conjugated polymers to interface with biomolecules, cells, and tissues in the human body

SG Higgins, A Lo Fiego, I Patrick… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers exhibit interesting material and optoelectronic properties that make
them well‐suited to the development of biointerfaces. Their biologically relevant mechanical …

Semantic and structural image segmentation for prosthetic vision

M Sanchez-Garcia, R Martinez-Cantin, JJ Guerrero - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Prosthetic vision is being applied to partially recover the retinal stimulation of visually
impaired people. However, the phosphenic images produced by the implants have very …

Neurolight: A deep learning neural interface for cortical visual prostheses

A Lozano, JS Suárez, C Soto-Sánchez… - … journal of neural …, 2020 - World Scientific
Visual neuroprosthesis, that provide electrical stimulation along several sites of the human
visual system, constitute a potential tool for vision restoration for the blind. Scientific and …

Rapid effects of vagus nerve stimulation on sensory processing through activation of neuromodulatory systems

C Rodenkirch, JB Carmel, Q Wang - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
After sensory information is encoded into neural signals at the periphery, it is processed
through multiple brain regions before perception occurs (ie, sensory processing). Recent …

Research progress on the flexibility of an implantable neural microelectrode

H Zhao, R Liu, H Zhang, P Cao, Z Liu, Y Li - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neural microelectrode is the important bridge of information exchange between the human
body and machines. By recording and transmitting nerve signals with electrodes, people can …

Improving the effect of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS): A systematic review

L Wu, T Liu, J Wang - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With the development of electrical stimulation technology, traditional transcranial alternating
current stimulation (tACS) technology has been found to have the drawback of not targeting …