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Implantation and Control of Wireless, Battery-free Systems for Peripheral Nerve Interfacing
Published on: October 20, 2021
Artificial stimulation of the peripheral nerves to generate natural-like activity in the central nervous system
V Bonacasa1, I R Cepeda, V Makarov
1Department of Applied Mathematics (Biomathematics), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.
Abstract:
In the present work we study how sensory inputs conveyed by nerve fibers in the form of spatiotemporal patterns generate different responses in the central nervous system (CNS) depending on the physical characteristics of the stimulus applied and then we reproduce similar responses by means of electrical stimulation of the nervous fibers.
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