Publications by Eduardo Martin Moraud

Toward a Unified Gait Freeze Index: a Standardized Benchmark for Clinical and Regulatory Evaluations

Freezing of Gait (FOG) is a disabling motor symptom that affects a majority of individuals with advanced Parkinson's disease, severely limiting mobility, independence, and quality of life. Automatic methods for detecting FOG using the freeze index (FI) hav ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2025

GAIT: gait analysis interactive tool a pipeline for automatic detection of gait events across different motor impairments

Eduardo Martin Moraud

We introduce an open-access tool capable of automatically extracting the timing of gait events during unconstrained locomotion across different neuromotor impairments. The gait analysis interactive tool is conceived as an assistant for gait assessment stud ...

SPRINGER LONDON LTD2024

Exercise and gait/movement analyses in treatment and diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease

Eduardo Martin Moraud

Cardinal motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) include bradykinesia, rest tremor and/or rigidity. This symptomatology can additionally encompass abnormal gait, balance and postural patterns at advanced stages of the disease. Besides pharmacological an ...

2023

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

Principles of gait encoding in the subthalamic nucleus of people with Parkinson's disease

Grégoire Courtine, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Jocelyne Bloch, Jimmy James Ravier, Carmina Andrea Galvez Solano

Disruption of subthalamic nucleus dynamics in Parkinson's disease leads to impairments during walking. Here, we aimed to uncover the principles through which the subthalamic nucleus encodes functional and dysfunctional walking in people with Parkinson's di ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2022

Actigraphy Enables Home Screening of Rapid Eye Movement Behavior Disorder in Parkinson's Disease

Eduardo Martin Moraud

Objectives Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a potentially harmful, often overlooked sleep disorder affecting up to 70% of Parkinson's disease patients. Current diagnosis relies on nocturnal video-polysomnography, which is an expensive an ...

WILEY2022

Actigraphy enables home screening of REM behavior disorder in Parkinson's disease: Preliminary data

Eduardo Martin Moraud

WILEY2022

Controlling Clinical States Governed by Different Temporal Dynamics With Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation: A Principled Framework

Eduardo Martin Moraud

Closed-loop strategies for deep brain stimulation (DBS) are paving the way for improving the efficacy of existing neuromodulation therapies across neurological disorders. Unlike continuous DBS, closed-loop DBS approaches (cl-DBS) optimize the delivery of s ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Adaptive, personalized closed-loop therapy for Parkinson's disease: biochemical, neurophysiological, and wearable sensing systems

Eduardo Martin Moraud

Introduction Motor complication management is one of the main unmet needs in Parkinson's disease patients. Areas covered Among the most promising emerging approaches for handling motor complications in Parkinson's disease, adaptive deep brain stimulation s ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

Neuroprosthetic baroreflex controls haemodynamics after spinal cord injury

Jérôme Gandar, Giuseppe Schiavone, Nicolas Vachicouras, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Salif Axel Komi, Stéphanie Lacour, Arnaud Bichat, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Kay Alexander Bartholdi, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Marco Capogrosso, Mark Andrew Anderson, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Andreas Rowald, Newton Cho, Jocelyne Bloch, Claudia Kathe, Nicholas David James, Jordan Squair, Laura Ann McCracken, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Loïs Thomas Romain Mahe, Jimmy James Ravier

Spinal cord injury (SCI) induces haemodynamic instability that threatens survival(1-3), impairs neurological recovery(4,5), increases the risk of cardiovascular disease(6,7), and reduces quality of life(8,9). Haemodynamic instability in this context is due ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Advantages of soft subdural implants for the delivery of electrochemical neuromodulation therapies to the spinal cord

Jérôme Gandar, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Nikolaus Wenger, Ivan Rusev Minev, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Pavel Musienko, Marco Capogrosso, Polina Shkorbatova, Nathan Antoine Greiner

Objective. We recently developed soft neural interfaces enabling the delivery of electrical and chemical stimulation to the spinal cord. These stimulations restored locomotion in animal models of paralysis. Soft interfaces can be placed either below or abo ...

2018

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

Closed-loop control of trunk posture improves locomotion through the regulation of leg proprioceptive feedback after spinal cord injury

Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Emanuele Formento, Marco Capogrosso

Nature Research2018

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

System to deliver adaptive epidural and/or subdural electrical spinal cord stimulation to facilitate and restore locomotion after a neuromotor impairment

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Nikolaus Wenger, Marco Bonizzato, Eduardo Martin Moraud

The present disclosure provides a closed-loop system for real-time control of epidural and/or subdural electrical stimulation comprising means for applying to a subject neuromodulation with adjustable stimulation parameters, said means being operatively co ...

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

Spatiotemporal neuromodulation therapies engaging muscle synergies improve motor control after spinal cord injury

Léonie Asboth, Jérôme Gandar, Stéphanie Lacour, Arthur Edouard Hirsch, Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Nikolaus Wenger, Ivan Rusev Minev, Rubia van den Brand, Quentin Barraud, Simone Ellen Joze Duis, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Pavel Musienko, Marco Capogrosso, Natalia Pavlova, Julie Kreider, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Andrea Mortera, Jocelyne Bloch

Electrical neuromodulation of lumbar segments improves motor control after spinal cord injury in animal models and humans. However, the physiological principles underlying the effect of this intervention remain poorly understood, which has limited the ther ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Rehabilitative Soft Exoskeleton for Rodents

Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Silvestro Micera, Jamie Paik, Grégoire Courtine, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Rubia van den Brand, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Juan Manuel Florez Marin, Manan Kishore Shah

Robotic exoskeletons provide programmable, consistent and controllable active therapeutic assistance to patients with neurological disorders. Here we introduce a prototype and preliminary experimental evaluation of a rehabilitative gait exoskeleton that en ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016