Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has evolved into a well-accepted add-on treatment for
patients with severe Parkinsons disease as well as for other chronic neurological conditions …

Optical-electrode (optrode) arrays use light to modulate excitable biological tissues and/or
transduce bioelectrical signals into the optical domain. Light offers several advantages over …

The vision of patients rendered blind by photoreceptor degeneration can be partially
restored by exogenous stimulation of surviving retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Whereas …

Thermoplasmonic effect-based neural stimulation has been suggested as an alternative
optical neural stimulation technology without genetic modification. Integration of near …

Brain is one of the most temperature sensitive organs. Besides the fundamental role of
temperature in cellular metabolism, thermal response of neuronal populations is also …

Thermal block of unmyelinated axons may serve as a modality for control, suggesting a
means for providing therapies for pain. Computational modeling predicted that potassium …

Ultrasound can modulate action potential firing in vivo and in vitro, but the mechanistic basis
of this phenomenon is not well understood. To address this problem, we used patch-clamp …

Infrared neuromodulation is an emerging technology in neuroscience that exploits the
inherent thermal sensitivity of neurons to excite or inhibit cellular activity. Since there is …

The aim of the present study is to optimize parameters for inhibiting neuronal activity safely
and investigating thermal inhibition of rat cortex neural networks in vitro by continuous …

Inner ear spiral ganglion neurons were cultured from day 4 postnatal mice and loaded with a
fluorescent Ca2+ indicator (fluo-4,-5F, or-5N). Pulses of infrared radiation (IR; 1,863 nm, 200 …