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Development of high resolution, multiplexed electrode arrays: Opportunities and challenges.

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Viventi, J; Blanco, JA
Published in: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
January 2012

More than one third of the world's 60 million people with epilepsy have seizures that cannot be controlled by medication. Some of these individuals may be candidates for surgical removal of brain regions that generate seizures, but the chance of being seizure free after epilepsy surgery is as low as 35% in many patients. Even when surgery is successful, patients risk neurological deficits like memory loss and speech difficulties. The need for new treatments is clear. A central barrier to better treatments for epilepsy is technological: we do not have devices capable of interfacing with the brain with small enough electrodes over large enough regions to map epileptic networks in sufficient detail to enable treatment. Our collaborative group has developed new implantable brain devices to address this challenge. Our devices, made from flexible silicon nanoribbons, can record from these very small brain regions, with electrodes ½ millimeter apart or less, and can be scaled up to clinically useful sizes, on the order of 64 cm(2). They consist of thousands of individually controllable microelectrodes.

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Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference

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2694-0604

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2375-7477

Publication Date

January 2012

Volume

2012

Start / End Page

1394 / 1396

Related Subject Headings

  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Nanotechnology
  • Microelectrodes
  • Electroencephalography
  • Electrodes, Implanted
 

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Viventi, J., & Blanco, J. A. (2012). Development of high resolution, multiplexed electrode arrays: Opportunities and challenges. In Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference (Vol. 2012, pp. 1394–1396). https://doi.org/10.1109/embc.2012.6346199
Viventi, Jonathan, and Justin A. Blanco. “Development of high resolution, multiplexed electrode arrays: Opportunities and challenges.” In Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, 2012:1394–96, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/embc.2012.6346199.
Viventi J, Blanco JA. Development of high resolution, multiplexed electrode arrays: Opportunities and challenges. In: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference. 2012. p. 1394–6.
Viventi, Jonathan, and Justin A. Blanco. “Development of high resolution, multiplexed electrode arrays: Opportunities and challenges.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, vol. 2012, 2012, pp. 1394–96. Epmc, doi:10.1109/embc.2012.6346199.
Viventi J, Blanco JA. Development of high resolution, multiplexed electrode arrays: Opportunities and challenges. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference. 2012. p. 1394–1396.

Published In

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference

DOI

EISSN

2694-0604

ISSN

2375-7477

Publication Date

January 2012

Volume

2012

Start / End Page

1394 / 1396

Related Subject Headings

  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Nanotechnology
  • Microelectrodes
  • Electroencephalography
  • Electrodes, Implanted