The neural stimulation has been gaining much interest in neuromodulation research and clinical trials. For efficiency, there is a need for variable electrical stimulation such as current and voltage stimuli as well as wireless framework. In this regard, we develop the wireless neural stimulator capable of voltage and current stimuli. The system consists of ZigBee which is a wireless communicati...

Significance Sensory processing depends upon the integration of widely distributed neural assemblies. During every day listening, our ears receive different information (due to interaural time and amplitude differences) it is known that both hemispheres extract acoustic features. Nonetheless, features belonging same source become integrated. It has been suggested brain overcomes this “binding p...

We address the importance of understanding initial states of neuronal populations and of state-dependent responses in cognitive neuroscience experiments with special emphasis on brain stimulation studies of perception and cognition. The approach we present is based on evidence that behavioural and perceptual effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) are determined by initial neural act...

In this study, we proposed a novel machine-learning-based functional electrical stimulation (FES) control algorithm to enhance gait rehabilitation in post-stroke hemiplegic patients. The of the muscles on paretic side was controlled via deep neural networks, which were trained using muscle activity data from healthy people during gait. performance developed system comparison with that conventio...

There is mounting evidence that appropriately timed neuromuscular stimulation can induce neural plasticity and generate functional recovery from motor disorders. This review addresses the idea that coordinating stimulation with a patient's voluntary effort might further enhance neurorehabilitation. Studies in cell cultures and behaving animals have delineated the rules underlying neural plastic...

BACKGROUND A common control condition for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies is to apply stimulation at the vertex. An assumption of vertex stimulation is that it has relatively little influence over on-going brain processes involved in most experimental tasks, however there has been little attempt to measure neural changes linked to vertex TMS. Here we directly test this assumptio...

To investigate neural coding characteristics in the human primary somatosensory cortices, the cortical representation of two fingers with different levels of functional skill has been focused (the thumb –high dexterous– and the little finger –low dexterous–). The finger dexterity was scored by the Fingertip writing test. In the two hemispheres, dynamic neural synchronization was analysed in the...

When the organ systems of the body are studied from an engineering point of view, electricity emerges as the essence of human life. In fact, life itself is now taken to exist only so long as the brain produces measurable electrical activity. It is not surprising, then, that medical practitioners have been fascinated by the effects of externally applied electricity since the beginning of medicin...

Estimating the elbow angle using shoulder data is very important and valuable in Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) systems which can be useful in assisting C5/C6 SCI patients. Much research has been conducted based on the elbow-shoulder synergies.The aim of this study was the online estimation of elbow flexion/extension angle from the upper arm acceleration signals during ADLs. For this, ...