From Neurons to Robots: Non-Invasive, General-Purpose Interfacing With Human Spinal Motor Neurons

Project Information

INTERSPINE

Grant agreement ID: 737570

DOI 10.3030/737570

Project closed

EC signature date 21 March 2017

Start date 1 July 2017

End date 31 December 2018

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 150 000,00

EU contribution € 150 000,00

Coordinated by

IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
United Kingdom

Publications

Conference proceedings (1)

A real-time surface EMG decomposition system for non-invasive human-machine interfaces

Author(s): Deren Y. Barsakcioglu, Dario Farina
Published in: 2018 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2018, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-5386-3603-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/biocas.2018.8584659

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Common Synaptic Input to Motor Neurons and Neural Drive to Targeted Reinnervated Muscles

Author(s): Dario Farina, Anna Margherita Castronovo, Ivan Vujaklija, Agnes Sturma, Stefan Salminger, Christian Hofer, Oskar Aszmann
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 37/46, 2017, Page(s) 11285-11292, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1179-17.2017

Central nervous system modulates the neuromechanical delay in a broad range for the control of muscle force

Author(s): A. Del Vecchio, A. Úbeda, M. Sartori, J. M. Azorín, F. Felici, D. Farina
Published in: Journal of Applied Physiology, Issue 125/5, 2018, Page(s) 1404-1410, ISSN 8750-7587
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00135.2018

The increase in muscle force after 4 weeks of strength training is mediated by adaptations in motor unit recruitment and rate coding

Author(s): Alessandro Del Vecchio, Andrea Casolo, Francesco Negro, Matteo Scorcelletti, Ilenia Bazzucchi, Roger Enoka, Francesco Felici, Dario Farina
Published in: The Journal of Physiology, 2019, ISSN 0022-3751
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1113/jp277250

Higher muscle fiber conduction velocity and early rate of torque development in chronically strength-trained individuals

Author(s): A. Del Vecchio, F. Negro, D. Falla, I. Bazzucchi, D. Farina, F. Felici
Published in: Journal of Applied Physiology, Issue 125/4, 2018, Page(s) 1218-1226, ISSN 8750-7587
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00025.2018

Early Motor Unit Conduction Velocity Changes to High-Intensity Interval Training versus Continuous Training

Author(s): EDUARDO MARTINEZ-VALDES, DARIO FARINA, FRANCESCO NEGRO, ALESSANDRO DEL VECCHIO, DEBORAH FALLA
Published in: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Issue 50/11, 2018, Page(s) 2339-2350, ISSN 0195-9131
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ltd.
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0000000000001705

You are as fast as your motor neurons: speed of recruitment and maximal discharge of motor neurons determine the maximal rate of force development in humans

Author(s): Alessandro Del Vecchio, Francesco Negro, Ales Holobar, Andrea Casolo, Jonathan P. Folland, Francesco Felici, Dario Farina
Published in: The Journal of Physiology, Issue 597/9, 2019, Page(s) 2445-2456, ISSN 0022-3751
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1113/jp277396

Decoding motor neuron activity from epimysial thin-film electrode recordings following targeted muscle reinnervation

Author(s): Silvia Muceli, Konstantin D Bergmeister, Klaus-Peter Hoffmann, Martin Aman, Ivan Vukajlija, Oskar C Aszmann, Dario Farina
Published in: Journal of Neural Engineering, Issue 16/1, 2019, Page(s) 016010, ISSN 1741-2560
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aaed85