Publications de Simone Ellen Joze Duis

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

Engagement of the Rat Hindlimb Motor Cortex across Natural Locomotor Behaviors

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Janine Beauparlant, Lucia Florinda Friedli Wittler, Rubia van den Brand, Simone Ellen Joze Duis, Julie Kreider, Jacopo Rigosa

Contrary to cats and primates, cortical contribution to hindlimb locomotor movements is not critical in rats. However, the importance of the motor cortex to regain locomotion after neurological disorders in rats suggests that cortical engagement in hindlim ...

Soc Neuroscience2016

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

Restoring Voluntary Control of Locomotion after Paralyzing Spinal Cord Injury

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Lucia Florinda Friedli Wittler, Rubia van den Brand, Quentin Barraud, Kay Alexander Bartholdi, Simone Ellen Joze Duis, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Isabel Laura Vollenweider, Pavel Musienko

Half of human spinal cord injuries lead to chronic paralysis. Here, we introduce an electrochemical neuroprosthesis and a robotic postural interface designed to encourage supraspinally-mediated movements in rats with paralyzing lesions. Despite the interru ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2012