Publications de Emanuele Formento

A biomimetic electrical stimulation strategy to induce asynchronous stochastic neural activity

Sandra Gribi, Edoardo D'Anna, Stéphanie Lacour, Silvestro Micera, Emanuele Formento

Objective.Electrical stimulation is an effective method for artificially modulating the activity of the nervous system. However, current stimulation paradigms fail to reproduce the stochastic and asynchronous properties of natural neural activity. Here, we ...

2020

Experimental and Computational Study on Motor Control and Recovery After Stroke: Toward a Constructive Loop Between Experimental and Virtual Embodied Neuroscience

Auke Ijspeert, Alain Destexhe, Axel von Arnim, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Silvestro Micera, Emanuele Formento, Egidio Falotico, Lorenzo Vannucci, Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty, Maria Pasquini, Emmanouil Angelidis

Being able to replicate real experiments with computational simulations is a unique opportunity to refine and validate models with experimental data and redesign the experiments based on simulations. However, since it is technically demanding to model all ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Shared human–robot proportional control of a dexterous myoelectric prosthesis

Aude Billard, Edoardo D'Anna, Nicolas Sommer, Silvestro Micera, Emanuele Formento, Saurav Aryan, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Francesco Maria Petrini, Fiorenzo Artoni, Katie Zhi Zhuang

Myoelectric prostheses allow users to recover lost functionality by controlling a robotic device with their remaining muscle activity. Such commercial devices can give users a high level of autonomy, but still do not approach the dexterity of the intact hu ...

2019

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

A sensory information compliant spinal cord stimulation system for the rehabilitation of motor functions

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Emanuele Formento, Marco Capogrosso, Karen Minassian

The present invention refers to a system for stimulation of the spinal cord for the rehabilitation of motor function in subjects with spinal cord injury or other motor disorders. Said system comprises a programmable implantable pulse generator (IPG), opera ...

2018

Electrical spinal cord stimulation must preserve proprioception to enable locomotion in humans with spinal cord injury

Camille Georgette Marie Le Goff-Mignardot, Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Emanuele Formento, Marco Capogrosso, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Andreas Rowald, Karen Minassian, Jocelyne Bloch

Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the spinal cord restores locomotion in animal models of spinal cord injury but is less effective in humans. Here we hypothesized that this interspecies discrepancy is due to interference between EES and propriocepti ...

2018

A Computational Approach for the Design of Epidural Electrical Spinal Cord Stimulation Strategies to Enable Locomotion after Spinal Cord Injury

Emanuele Formento

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major cause of paralysis with currently no effective treatment. Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the lumbar spinal cord has been shown to restore locomotion in animal models of SCI, but has not yet reached the same lev ...

EPFL2018