Publications by Jimmy James Ravier

Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept

Auke Ijspeert, Léonie Asboth, Salif Axel Komi, Grégoire Courtine, Miroslav Caban, Nicolas Hankov, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Jocelyne Bloch, Henri Charles Alexandre Lorach, Edeny Baaklini, Jimmy James Ravier, Cathal John Harte

Rehabilitation robotics aims to promote activity-dependent reorganization of the nervous system. However, people with paralysis cannot generate sufficient activity during robot-assisted rehabilitation and, consequently, do not benefit from these therapies. ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2025

Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury

Léonie Asboth, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Kay Alexander Bartholdi, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Mark Andrew Anderson, Nicolas Hankov, Katia Galan, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Newton Cho, Jocelyne Bloch, Claudia Kathe, Nicholas David James, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Jimmy James Ravier, Thomas Haynes Hutson, Viviana Aureli

A spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts the neuronal projections from the brain to the region of the spinal cord that produces walking, leading to various degrees of paralysis. Here, we aimed to identify brain regions that steer the recovery of walking after i ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024

Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain-spine interface

Léonie Asboth, Salif Axel Komi, Grégoire Courtine, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Félix Antoine Martel, Laure Coquoz, Jocelyne Bloch, Anne Marie Lucienne Watrin, Sergio Daniel Hernandez, Henri Charles Alexandre Lorach, Edeny Baaklini, Jimmy James Ravier, Molywan Vat, Carmina Andrea Galvez Solano, Cathal John Harte, Valeria Spagnolo, Grégory Didier Dumont, Thibault Jean Etienne Collin, Icare Sakr, Lucas Struber

A spinal cord injury interrupts the communication between the brain and the region of the spinal cord that produces walking, leading to paralysis(1,2). Here, we restored this communication with a digital bridge between the brain and spinal cord that enable ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

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

Wireless closed-loop optogenetics across the entire dorsoventral spinal cord in mice

Léonie Asboth, Jérôme Gandar, Frédéric Pierre Gérald Michoud, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Noaf Salah Ali Alwahab, Ivan Furfaro, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Andreas Rowald, Claudia Kathe, Valentina Marie Paggi, Jimmy James Ravier, Kyungjin Kim, Thomas Haynes Hutson

Optoelectronic systems can exert precise control over targeted neurons and pathways throughout the brain in untethered animals, but similar technologies for the spinal cord are not well established. In the present study, we describe a system for ultrafast, ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

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

Activity-dependent spinal cord neuromodulation rapidly restores trunk and leg motor functions after complete paralysis

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Léonie Asboth, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Salif Axel Komi, Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Miroslav Caban, Quentin Barraud, Marco Capogrosso, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Andreas Rowald, Nathan Antoine Greiner, Jocelyne Bloch, Sergio Daniel Hernandez, Laura Ann McCracken, Henri Charles Alexandre Lorach, Edeny Baaklini, Jimmy James Ravier, Carmina Andrea Galvez Solano

Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) targeting the dorsal roots of lumbosacral segments restores walking in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). However, EES is delivered with multielectrode paddle leads that were originally designed to target the dorsal ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Targeted dorsal root entry zone stimulation alleviates pain due to meralgia paresthetica

Léonie Asboth, Grégoire Courtine, Nicolas Hankov, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Jocelyne Bloch, Jimmy James Ravier, Molywan Vat, Viviana Aureli

Objective. Meralgia paresthetica (MP) is a mononeuropathy of the exclusively sensory lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN) that is difficult to treat with conservative treatments. Afferents from the LFCN enter the spinal cord through the dorsal root entry ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

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