Teams & Collaborators
At the moment Neuromodulation is one of the fastest-growing areas of medicine and neuroscience.
Our clinical and research collaborators are focusing on multiple aspects of spinal cord and brain neuromodulation and interfacing.
News & Medias
‘Neurorecovery Beyond Limits: BCIs and Spinal Cord Stimulation’ at the Neurocareers podcast by The Institute of Neuroapproaches
https://www.neuroapproaches.org/podcast/episode/28b87613/neurorecovery-beyond-limits-bcis-and-spinal-cord-stimulation-with-ilia-borishchev-drs-lavrov-lebedev-and-cuellar
Masterclass: tSCS & EES
Conference “Practical aspects of Non-invasive and Invasive Spinal Cord Stimulation”: 12 lectures
New Hope for SCI patients
Interdisciplinary AI Research for Neurorehabilitation During a Pandemic
This story is featured in the Spring 2021 issue of St. Thomas Engineer.
For most, the pandemic has disrupted our routine lives, challenging jobs, family interactions, school and normal health care. For some, such as patients with spinal injuries, COVID-19 lockdowns disrupt an already challenging time – their recovery following spinal cord injury. While spinal injury remains a major problem, promising approaches are showing amazing results in helping even severely impacted patients recover some motor control. This work is a good example of medical, neuro, data and computer scientists responding to COVID-19 challenges and patient needs now … and imagining a new and improved future: https://news.stthomas.edu/interdisciplinary-ai-research/
Round table
The first Case of Neuromodulation with PRM for Quadriplegic Patient
Even after more than 10 years of complete motor and sensory tetraplegia, epidural stimulation of the lumbar spinal segments was able to restore volitional control below the level of injury. Electrode configuration and reprogramming were performed entirely online, highlighting the remarkable potential of remote monitoring and neuromodulation. During a three-way call, we identified an optimal combination of spinal cord stimulation parameters and sensory input, enabling the patient to volitionally initiate and terminate stepping movements in a leg suspended within a support system. For the first time in a decade, he was able to control movements below the injury level, and during the very first online training session and successfully generated voluntary lower limb movements.
‘Mayo Clinic Proceedings’ 2021
‘Mayo Clinic Proceedings’ 2017
Conferences & Presentations
SFN 2019 – Riaz Islam
SFN 2019 – Alan Mendez
SFN 2019 – Prathima Basa