Publications by Tomislav Milekovic

Regional specialization of movement encoding across the primate sensorimotor cortex

Tomislav Milekovic, Grégoire Courtine, Simon Borgognon, Jocelyne Bloch, Ismael Seanez Gonzalez, Nicolò Macellari

The process by which the cerebral cortex generates movements to achieve different tasks remains poorly understood. Here, we leveraged the rich repertoire of well-controlled primate locomotor behaviors to study how task-specific movements are encoded across ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Neuromodulation/neurostimulation system for mitigating locomotor deficits of parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury (sci), stroke and/or other neurological disorders

Tomislav Milekovic, Léonie Asboth, Grégoire Courtine, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Newton Cho, Jocelyne Bloch, Jordan Squair

The present invention relates to a combined neuromodulation and/or neurostimulation system (10) for mitigating locomotor deficits of/or neuronal disorders, especially Parkinson's disease, said system (10) comprising: - at least one Deep Brain Stimulation ( ...

2023

A spinal cord neuroprosthesis for locomotor deficits due to Parkinson's disease

Auke Ijspeert, Tomislav Milekovic, Léonie Asboth, Camille Georgette Marie Le Goff-Mignardot, Giuseppe Schiavone, Elvira Pirondini, Stéphanie Lacour, Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Marco Capogrosso, David Allenson Borton, Jean François Pierre Laurens, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Flavio Raschella, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Simon Borgognon, Jocelyne Bloch, Shiqi Sun, Sergio Daniel Hernandez, Jordan Squair, Nicolò Macellari, Jimmy James Ravier, Carmina Andrea Galvez Solano, Grégory Didier Dumont

People with late-stage Parkinson's disease (PD) often suffer from debilitating locomotor deficits that are resistant to currently available therapies. To alleviate these deficits, we developed a neuroprosthesis operating in closed loop that targets the dor ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys

Tomislav Milekovic, Giuseppe Schiavone, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Katia Galan, Jocelyne Bloch, Nicholas David James

Regaining arm control is a top priority for people with paralysis. Unfortunately, the complexity of the neural mechanisms underlying arm control has limited the effectiveness of neurotechnology approaches. Here, we exploited the neural function of survivin ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Tau seeds from patients induce progressive supranuclear palsy pathology and symptoms in primates

Tomislav Milekovic, Grégoire Courtine, Flavio Raschella

Progressive supranuclear palsy is a primary tauopathy affecting both neurons and glia and is responsible for both motor and cognitive symptoms. Recently, it has been suggested that progressive supranuclear palsy tauopathy may spread in the brain from cell ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

A system for planning and/or providing neurostimulation for a patient

Vincent Delattre, Tomislav Milekovic, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Flavio Raschella, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner

The present invention relates to a system (10) for planning and/or providing neurostimulation for a patient, comprising: - a pathological spinal cord map storage module (48) for storing at least one pathological spinal cord map (49) describing the activati ...

2019

Inhaling xenon ameliorates l -dopa-induced dyskinesia in experimental parkinsonism

Tomislav Milekovic, Grégoire Courtine, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Shiqi Sun

Parkinson's disease motor symptoms are treated with levodopa, but long‐term treatment leads to disabling dyskinesia. Altered synaptic transmission and maladaptive plasticity of corticostriatal glutamatergic projections play a critical role in the pathophys ...

2018

Configuration of electrical spinal cord stimulation through real-time processing of gait kinematics

Tomislav Milekovic, Jérôme Gandar, Grégoire Courtine, Nikolaus Wenger, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Pavel Musienko, Marco Capogrosso, Natalia Pavlova, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Polina Shkorbatova, Jocelyne Bloch

Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the spinal cord and real-time processing of gait kinematics are powerful methods for the study of locomotion and the improvement of motor control after injury or in neurological disorders. Here, we describe equipmen ...

2018

Brain-computer interfaces based on intracortical recordings of neural activity for restoration of movement and communication of people with paralysis

Tomislav Milekovic

IEEE2018

Two-phase calibration of a neuroprosthetic system

Tomislav Milekovic, Jérôme Gandar, Grégoire Courtine, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Marco Capogrosso, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner

Methods and systems are provided for triggering electrical stimulation of a spinal cord during execution of a motor event. In one example, a method comprises monitoring motor cortex activity while execution of a desired motor movement is attempted during a ...

2018

A brain-spine interface alleviating gait deficits after spinal cord injury in primates

Tomislav Milekovic, Jérôme Gandar, Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Simone Ellen Joze Duis, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Marco Capogrosso, David Allenson Borton, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Elodie Rey, Jocelyne Bloch

Spinal cord injury disrupts the communication between the brain and the spinal circuits that orchestrate movement. To bypass the lesion, brain-computer interfaces(1-3) have directly linked cortical activity to electrical stimulation of muscles, and have th ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Biomaterials. Electronic dura mater for long-term multimodal neural interfaces

Tomislav Milekovic, Léonie Asboth, Jérôme Gandar, Nicolas Vachicouras, Stéphanie Lacour, Arthur Edouard Hirsch, Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Nikolaus Wenger, Ivan Rusev Minev, Quentin Barraud, Simone Ellen Joze Duis, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Pavel Musienko, Marco Capogrosso, Natalia Pavlova

The mechanical mismatch between soft neural tissues and stiff neural implants hinders the long-term performance of implantable neuroprostheses. Here, we designed and fabricated soft neural implants with the shape and elasticity of dura mater, the protectiv ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2015

Local field potentials in primate motor cortex encode grasp kinetic parameters

Tomislav Milekovic

Reach and grasp kinematics are known to be encoded in the spiking activity of neuronal ensembles and in local field potentials (LFPs) recorded from primate motor cortex during movement planning and execution. However, little is known, especially in LFPs, a ...

Elsevier2015