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Neuronal responses in the human primary motor cortex coincide with the subjective onset of movement intention in brain-machine interface-mediated actions

Self-initiated behavior is accompanied by the experience of intending our actions. Here, we leverage the unique opportunity to examine the full intentional chain-from intention to action to environmental effects-in a tetraplegic person outfitted with a pri ...

2025

Single neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus process cardiac and respiratory signals in humans

Olaf Blanke, Marco Solcà, Fosco Bernasconi, Emanuela De Falco, Mariana Babo Rebelo

2024

Sense of agency for intracortical brain-machine interfaces

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Marco Solcà, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Pavo Orepic, Tommaso Enrico Bertoni, Gaurav Sharma

Intracortical brain-machine interfaces decode motor commands from neural signals and translate them into actions, enabling movement for paralysed individuals. The subjective sense of agency associated with actions generated via intracortical brain-machine ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Enhancing analgesic spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain with personalized immersive virtual reality

Robin Mange, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Andrea Serino, Marco Solcà, Pavo Orepic

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an approved treatment for truncal and limb neuropathic pain. However, pain relief is often suboptimal and SCS efficacy may reduce over time, requiring sometimes the addition of other pain therapies, stimulator revision, or ...

2021

Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence for altered interoceptive bodily processing in chronic pain

Olaf Blanke, Marco Solcà, Fosco Bernasconi, Hyeongdong Park

Whereas impaired multisensory processing of bodily stimuli and distorted body representation are well-established in various chronic pain disorders, such research has focused on exteroceptive bodily cues and neglected bodily signals from the inside of the ...

2020

Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically-controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states

Hannes Bleuler, Olaf Blanke, Pierre Progin, Masayuki Hara, Giulio Rognini, Polona Pozeg, Roy Salomon, Andrea Serino, Marco Solcà, Fosco Bernasconi, Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho, Giedre Stripeikyte

Thought insertion (TI) is characterized by the experience that certain thoughts, occurring in one’s mind, are not one’s own, but the thoughts of somebody else and suggestive of a psychotic disorder. We report a robotics-based method able to investigate the ...

2020

Early Urinary Biomarkers in Pediatric Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD): No Evidence in the Interest of Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (uNGAL)

Marco Solcà

Background: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is increasingly diagnosed during childhood by the presence of renal cysts in patients with a positive familial history. No curative treatment is available and early detection and diagnosis co ...

2019

Cognitive neuroprosthetics for investigating and restoring body perception

Marco Solcà

Our brain constantly receives and integrates a flow of multisensory bodily inputs that are responsible for the way our body is represented and consciously experienced. However, in some pathological conditions, patients might experience altered perceptions ...

EPFL2019

Non-invasive brain stimulation of motor cortex induces embodiment when integrated with virtual reality feedback

Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Andrea Serino, Thomas Schmidlin, Marco Solcà, Marianne Anke Stephan, Matteo Franza, Mattia Pinardi

Previous evidence highlighted the multisensory-motor origin of embodiment - that is, the experience of having a body and of being in control of it - and the possibility of experimentally manipulating it. For instance, an illusory feeling of embodiment towa ...

2018

Multisensory bionic limb to achieve prosthesis embodiment and reduce distorted phantom limb perceptions

Robin Mange, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Javier Bello Ruiz, Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Andrea Serino, Francesco Maria Petrini, Marco Solcà, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle

2019

Heartbeat-enhanced immersive virtual reality to treat complex regional pain syndrome

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi, Thomas Schmidlin, Marco Solcà

OBJECTIVES: To develop and test a new immersive digital technology for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) that combines principles from mirror therapy and immersive virtual reality and the latest research from multisensory body processing. METHODS: In t ...

2018

Virtual reality improves embodiment and neuropathic pain caused by spinal cord injury

Olaf Blanke, Estelle Palluel, Polona Pozeg, Roberta Ronchi, Marco Solcà

Objective: To investigate changes in body ownership and chronic neuropathic pain in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) using multisensory own body illusions and virtual reality (VR). Methods: Twenty patients with SCI with paraplegia and 20 healthy cont ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2017

Modulation of pain through cardio-visual stimulation in CRPS patients

Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Roberta Ronchi, Thomas Schmidlin, Marco Solcà

Wiley-Blackwell2015