Publications associées à Neuroenhancement

Development of a Transient Neural Interface for Minimally Invasive Recording and Stimulation

Transient electronics enabling devices to safely disappear in the environment can be applied not only in green electronics, but also in bioelectronic medicine. Neural implants able to degrade harmlessly inside the body eliminate the need for removal surger ...

EPFL2022

Motor state transitions and Breathing in Brain Machine Interfaces

Bastien Orset

Brain-Machine interfaces aim to create a direct neural link between user's brain and machines. This goal has pushed scientists to investigate a large spectrum of applications in the realm of assistive and rehabilitation technologies. However, despite great ...

EPFL2021

Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Sheng Wang, Jian Wu

Distributed optical fibre sensors deliver a map of a physical quantity along an optical fibre, providing a unique solution for health monitoring of targeted structures. Considerable developments over recent years have pushed conventional distributed sensor ...

Nature Research2020

Cognitive epigenetic priming: leveraging histone acetylation for memory amelioration

Johannes Gräff, Allison Marie Burns

Multiple studies have found that increasing histone acetylation by means of histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) treatment can ameliorate memory and rescue cognitive impairments, but their mode of action is not fully understood. In particular, it is uncle ...

2020

Overload blunts baroreflex only in overreached athletes

Jean-Marc Vesin, Grégoire Millet, Sasan Yazdani, Masih Nilchian

Heart rate variability (HRV) is commonly used to diagnose overreaching and monitor athletes’ responses to training. Baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) is modified by changes in training load and might be another means to detect overreaching. The goal of this stu ...

2018

Neuroprosthetics to support impaired hand functions: A multidisciplinary approach combining brain-machine interfaces and wearable exoskeletons

Luca Randazzo

Neuroprosthetics, the discipline that aims at interfacing neural systems to artificially engineered devices, has witnessed in recent years important advancements towards the ultimate goal of augmenting and restoring human functions through technology and a ...

EPFL2018

Closed-loop electrical neurostimulation: Challenges and opportunities

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Michael Eric Anthony Pereira

Non-invasive and invasive electrical neurostimulation are promising tools to better understand brain function and ultimately treat its malfunction. In current open-loop approaches, a clinician chooses a fixed set of stimulation parameters, informed by obse ...

2018

Image and video denoising for distributed optical fibre sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

A technique based on a multi-dimensional signal processing approach is here described for performance enhancement of distributed optical fibre sensors. In particular, the main features of linear and nonlinear image denoising techniques are described for si ...

Ieee2017

Intensifying the response of distributed optical fibre sensors using 2D and 3D image restoration

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

Distributed optical fibre sensors possess the unique capability of measuring the spatial and temporal map of environmental quantities that can be of great interest for several field applications. Although existing methods for performance enhancement have e ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Cognitive Enhancers (Nootropics). Part 3: Drugs Interacting with Targets other than Receptors or Enzymes. Disease-Modifying Drugs. Update 2014

Andrea Pfeifer, Andreas Muhs

Scientists working in the field of Alzheimer's disease and, in particular, cognitive enhancers, are very productive. The review "Drugs interacting with Targets other than Receptors or Enzymes. Disease-modifying Drugs" was accepted in October 2012. In the l ...

Ios Press2014

Cognitive Enhancers (Nootropics). Part 1: Drugs interacting with Receptors. Update 2014

Andrea Pfeifer, Andreas Muhs

Scientists working in the fields of Alzheimer's disease and, in particular, cognitive enhancers are very productive. The review "Cognitive enhancers (nootropics): drugs interacting with receptors" was accepted for publication in July 2012. Since then, new ...

Ios Press2014

Phase-based manganese enhanced MRI, a new methodology to enhance brain cytoarchitectural contrast and study manganese uptake

Rolf Gruetter, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Rajika Maddage

Purpose As the magnetic susceptibility induced frequency shift increases linearly with magnetic field strength, the present work evaluates manganese as a phase imaging contrast agent and investigates the dose dependence of brain enhancement in comparison t ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Neurotechnology for Brain Repair : Imaging, Enhancing and Restoring Human Motor Function

Andrea Biasiucci

Neurotechnology is the application of scientific knowledge to the practical purpose of understanding, interacting and/or repairing the brain or, in a broader sense, the nervous system. The development of novel approaches to decode functional information fr ...

EPFL2014

Cognitive Enhancers (Nootropics). Part 2: Drugs Interacting with Enzymes. Update 2014

Andrea Pfeifer, Andreas Muhs

Scientists working in the field of Alzheimer's disease and, in particular, cognitive enhancers are very productive. The review on Drugs interacting with Enzymes was accepted in August 2012. However, this field is very dynamic. New potential targets for the ...

Ios Press2014

Cognitive Enhancers (Nootropics). Part 2: Drugs Interacting with Enzymes

Andrea Pfeifer, Andreas Muhs

Cognitive enhancers (nootropics) are drugs to treat cognition deficits in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, stroke, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or aging. Cognition refers to a capacity for information processing, app ...

Ios Press2013

Cognitive Enhancers (Nootropics). Part 3: Drugs Interacting with Targets other than Receptors or Enzymes. Disease-modifying Drugs

Andrea Pfeifer, Andreas Muhs

Cognitive enhancers (nootropics) are drugs to treat cognition deficits in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, stroke, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or aging. Cognition refers to a capacity for information processing, app ...

Ios Press2013

Facilitation of AMPA receptor synaptic delivery as a molecular mechanism for cognitive enhancement

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Erika Myrna Borcel Novoa, Lidia Alonso-Nanclares

Cell adhesion molecules and downstream growth factor-dependent signaling are critical for brain development and synaptic plasticity, and they have been linked to cognitive function in adult animals. We have previously developed a mimetic peptide (FGL) from ...

2012

Context-based Filtering for Assisted Brain-Actuated Wheelchair Driving

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Eileen Lew Yi Lee, Pierre Ferrez

Controlling a robotic device by using human brain signals is an interesting and challenging task. The device may be complicated to control and the non-stationary nature of the brain signals provides for a rather unstable input. With the use of intelligent ...

2007