Journal articleNat Commun · July 16, 2026
Speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can restore communication in individuals with neuromotor disorders who are unable to speak. However, current speech BCIs limit patient usability and successful deployment by requiring large volumes of patient-specifi ...
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Journal articleEpilepsia · May 2026
OBJECTIVE: Interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) are transients observed on the electroencephalogram (EEG) of patients with epilepsy. IEDs have traditionally been recorded from scalp or intracranial EEG macrocontacts, which coarsely sample neural activ ...
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Journal articleJ Neural Eng · April 10, 2026
Objective. High-frequency oscillations (HFOs) are a potential biomarker of the epileptogenic zone (EZ) in patients with focal epilepsy. Previous research has estimated that HFOs arise from regions as small as a single cortical column (1 mm3), making events ...
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Journal articleJournal of neural engineering · June 2025
Objective.The burgeoning demand for higher channel count neural interfaces has led to the incorporation of large connectors for connecting electrode channels to recording systems or on-site wireless electronics. However, as these devices are size-co ...
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Journal articleAnnual review of biomedical engineering · May 2025
Electrical stimulation of the brain is being developed as a treatment for an increasing number of neurological disorders. Technologies for delivering electrical stimulation are advancing rapidly and vary in specificity, coverage, and invasiveness. Supracor ...
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Journal articleJournal of neural engineering · July 2024
Objective.Intan Technologies' integrated circuits (ICs) are valuable tools for neurophysiological data acquisition, providing signal amplification, filtering, and digitization from many channels (up to 64 channels/chip) at high sampling rates (up to ...
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Journal articleCommun Biol · March 4, 2024
Spreading depolarizations (SDs) are widely recognized as a major contributor to the progression of tissue damage from ischemic stroke even if blood flow can be restored. They are characterized by negative intracortical waveforms of up to -20 mV, propagatio ...
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Journal articleBrain communications · January 2024
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by gait dysfunction in the advanced stages of the disease. The unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine toxin-induced model is the most studied animal model of Parkinson's disease, which reproduces gait ...
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Journal articleBrain communications · January 2024
Preclinical models of Parkinson's disease are imperative to gain insight into the neural circuits that contribute to gait dysfunction in advanced stages of the disease. A PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 knockout early-onset model of Parkinson's disease may ...
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Journal articleNat Commun · November 6, 2023
Patients suffering from debilitating neurodegenerative diseases often lose the ability to communicate, detrimentally affecting their quality of life. One solution to restore communication is to decode signals directly from the brain to enable neural speech ...
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Journal articleEpilepsia · July 2023
OBJECTIVE: Effective surgical treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy depends on accurate localization of the epileptogenic zone (EZ). High-frequency oscillations (HFOs) are potential biomarkers of the EZ. Previous research has shown that HFOs often occur wit ...
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Journal articleNpj flexible electronics · January 2023
Techniques to study brain activities have evolved dramatically, yet tremendous challenges remain in acquiring high-throughput electrophysiological recordings minimally invasively. Here, we develop an integrated neuroelectronic array that is filamentary, hi ...
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Journal articleJournal of neural engineering · August 2022
Objective.The force that an electrocorticography (ECoG) array exerts on the brain manifests when it bends to match the curvature of the skull and cerebral cortex. This force can negatively impact both short-term and long-term patient outcomes. Here ...
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Journal articleCirculation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology · March 2022
BackgroundRight ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) is a common source of ventricular tachycardia, which often requires ablation. However, the mechanisms underlying the RVOT's unique arrhythmia susceptibility remain poorly understood due to lack of d ...
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Journal articleFrontiers in nanotechnology · January 2022
Simultaneous interrogation of electrical signals from wide areas of the brain is vital for neuroscience research and can aid in understanding the mechanisms of brain function and treatments for neurological disorders. There emerges a demand for development ...
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Journal articleBrain Commun · 2022
One-third of epilepsy patients suffer from medication-resistant seizures. While surgery to remove epileptogenic tissue helps some patients, 30-70% of patients continue to experience seizures following resection. Surgical outcomes may be improved with more ...
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Journal articleJ Neural Eng · June 17, 2021
Objective.Brain functions such as perception, motor control, learning, and memory arise from the coordinated activity of neuronal assemblies distributed across multiple brain regions. While major progress has been made in understanding the function of indi ...
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Journal articleJ Neural Eng · March 8, 2021
Objective. Large channel count surface-based electrophysiology arrays (e.g. µECoG) are high-throughput neural interfaces with good chronic stability. Electrode spacing remains ad hoc due to redundancy and nonstationarity of field dynamics. Here, we establi ...
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Journal articleJournal of neural engineering · July 2020
ObjectiveA fundamental goal of the auditory system is to parse the auditory environment into distinct perceptual representations. Auditory perception is mediated by the ventral auditory pathway, which includes the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex ( ...
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Journal articleScience translational medicine · April 2020
Long-lasting, high-resolution neural interfaces that are ultrathin and flexible are essential for precise brain mapping and high-performance neuroprosthetic systems. Scaling to sample thousands of sites across large brain regions requires integrating power ...
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Journal articleAdvanced Materials Technologies · January 1, 2020
Bioimplants that incorporate active electronic components at the tissue interface rely critically on materials that are biocompatible, impermeable to biofluids, and capable of intimate electrical coupling for high-quality, chronically stable operation in v ...
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Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2019
Flexible biocompatible electronic systems that leverage key materials and manufacturing techniques associated with the consumer electronics industry have potential for broad applications in biomedicine and biological research. This study reports scalable a ...
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Journal articleJournal of neural engineering · December 2018
ObjectiveThe clinical use of microsignals recorded over broad cortical regions is largely limited by the chronic reliability of the implanted interfaces.ApproachWe evaluated the chronic reliability of novel 61-channel micro-electrocortico ...
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Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · October 2018
Materials and structures that enable long-term, intimate coupling of flexible electronic devices to biological systems are critically important to the development of advanced biomedical implants for biological research and for clinical medicine. By compari ...
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Journal articleAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · July 2018
Micro-electrocorticography (µECoG) is a minimally invasive neural interface that allows for recording from the surface of the brain with high spatial and temporal resolution [1], [2]. However, discerning multi-unit and local field potential (LFP) activity ...
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Journal articleAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · July 2018
Chronic studies of flexible μECoG electrodes and the electrode-brain interface have been limited by the inability to assess tissue response over time. The electrophysiological system presented here combines epidural microelectrocorticographic (μECoG) recor ...
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Journal articleAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · July 2018
Neural circuitry can be investigated and manipulated using a variety of techniques, including electrical and optical recording and stimulation. At present, most neural interfaces are designed to accommodate a single mode of neural recording and/or manipula ...
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Journal articleIEEE transactions on nanobioscience · September 2017
For the past few years, we have developed flexible, active, and multiplexed recording devices for high resolution recording over large, clinically relevant areas in the brain. While this technology has enabled a much higher-resolution view of the electrica ...
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Journal articleJournal of neural engineering · April 2017
ObjectiveHigh channel count electrode arrays allow for the monitoring of large-scale neural activity at high spatial resolution. Implantable arrays featuring many recording sites require compact, high bandwidth front-end electronics. In the presen ...
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Journal articleNature biomedical engineering · January 2017
Advanced capabilities in electrical recording are essential for the treatment of heart-rhythm diseases. The most advanced technologies use flexible integrated electronics; however, the penetration of biological fluids into the underlying electronics and an ...
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Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · October 2016
Materials that can serve as long-lived barriers to biofluids are essential to the development of any type of chronic electronic implant. Devices such as cardiac pacemakers and cochlear implants use bulk metal or ceramic packages as hermetic enclosures for ...
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Journal articleNature materials · July 2016
Bioresorbable silicon electronics technology offers unprecedented opportunities to deploy advanced implantable monitoring systems that eliminate risks, cost and discomfort associated with surgical extraction. Applications include postoperative monitoring a ...
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Journal articleJournal of neural engineering · April 2016
ObjectiveCurrent mapping of epileptic networks in patients prior to epilepsy surgery utilizes electrode arrays with sparse spatial sampling (∼1.0 cm inter-electrode spacing). Recent research demonstrates that sub-millimeter, cortical-column-scale ...
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Journal articleJournal of neural engineering · April 2016
ObjectiveMicro-electrocorticography (μECoG) offers a minimally invasive neural interface with high spatial resolution over large areas of cortex. However, electrode arrays with many contacts that are individually wired to external recording system ...
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Journal articleJournal of neurophysiology · September 2014
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Our understanding of the large-scale population dynamics of neural activity is limited, in part, by our inability to record simultaneously from large regions of the cortex. Here, we validated the use of a large-scale active microelectrode array that simult ...
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Journal articleAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · January 2014
Clinical electrodes for epileptic seizure monitoring traditionally require a tradeoff between coverage area and spatial resolution. However, with multiplexed, flexible array devices, high spatial resolution is possible over large surface areas. This high r ...
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Journal articleAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · January 2014
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Micro-Electrocorticography (μECoG) offers a minimally invasive, high resolution interface with large areas of cortex. However, large arrays of electrodes with many contacts that are individually wired to external recording systems are cumbersome and make c ...
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Journal articleAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · January 2014
While mammography remains the gold standard for breast cancer screening, additional adjunctive tools for early detection of breast cancer are needed especially for young women, women with dense breast tissue and those at increased risk due to genetic facto ...
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Journal articleAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · January 2014
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Many experiments in neuroscience require or would benefit tremendously from a wireless neural recording system. However, commercially available wireless systems are expensive, have moderate to high noise and are often not customizable. Academic wireless sy ...
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Journal articleEpilepsy & behavior : E&B · December 2012
The Third International Workshop on Advances in Electrocorticography (ECoG) was convened in Washington, DC, on November 10-11, 2011. As in prior meetings, a true multidisciplinary fusion of clinicians, scientists, and engineers from many disciplines gather ...
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Journal articleEpilepsy & behavior : E&B · December 2011
The Second International Workshop on Advances in Electrocorticography (ECoG) was convened in San Diego, CA, USA, on November 11-12, 2010. Between this meeting and the inaugural 2009 event, a much clearer picture has been emerging of cortical ECoG physiolog ...
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Journal articleNature neuroscience · November 2011
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Arrays of electrodes for recording and stimulating the brain are used throughout clinical medicine and basic neuroscience research, yet are unable to sample large areas of the brain while maintaining high spatial resolution because of the need to individua ...
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Journal articleBrain : a journal of neurology · October 2011
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Transient high-frequency (100-500 Hz) oscillations of the local field potential have been studied extensively in human mesial temporal lobe. Previous studies report that both ripple (100-250 Hz) and fast ripple (250-500 Hz) oscillations are increased in th ...
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Journal articleNature materials · April 2011
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Developing advanced surgical tools for minimally invasive procedures represents an activity of central importance to improving human health. A key challenge is in establishing biocompatible interfaces between the classes of semiconductor device and sensor ...
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Journal articleJournal of neurophysiology · November 2010
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High-frequency oscillations (HFOs) have been observed in animal and human intracranial recordings during both normal and aberrant brain states. It has been proposed that the relationship between subclasses of these oscillations can be used to identify epil ...
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Journal articleNature materials · June 2010
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Electronics that are capable of intimate, non-invasive integration with the soft, curvilinear surfaces of biological tissues offer important opportunities for diagnosing and treating disease and for improving brain/machine interfaces. This article describe ...
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Journal articleScience translational medicine · March 2010
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In all current implantable medical devices such as pacemakers, deep brain stimulators, and epilepsy treatment devices, each electrode is independently connected to separate control systems. The ability of these devices to sample and stimulate tissues is hi ...
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