Assessing Small-Worldness of Dynamic Functional Brain Connectivity during Complex Tasks
Ren, Shen ; Taya, Fumihiko ; Sun, Yu ; de Souza, Joshua ; Thakor, Nitish ; Bezerianos, Anastasios
Connectivity measurements
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Phase locking estimation in biosignal analysis
The development of network theory has introduced new approaches to understand the brain as a complex system. Currently the time-variant…
Cooperation Driven Coherence: Brains Working Hard Together
Bezerianos, Anastasios ; Sun, Yu ; Chen, Yu ; Wong, Kian Foong ; Taya, Fumihiko ; Arico, Pietro ; Borghini, Gianluca ; Babiloni, Fabio ; Thakor, Nitish
Brain physiology and modeling – Neural dynamics and computation
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Brain physiology and modeling – Nonlinear coupling
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Human performance – Attention and vigilance
The current study aims to look at the difference in coupling of EEG activity of participant pairs while they perform a cooperative,…
Eye Tracking and EEG Synchronization to Analyze Microsaccades during a Workload Task
Bodala, Indu Prasad ; Kukreja, Sunil ; Li, Junhua ; Thakor, Nitish ; Al-Nashash, Hasan
Human performance – Cognition
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Brain functional imaging – EEG
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Human performance – Engineering
Electroencephalography (EEG) and eye tracking are two fields that have evolved independently to study topics such as mental workload,…
Flexible and Self-Adaptive Neural Ribbon with Three-Dimensional Electrodes for Sciatic Nerve Recording
Xiang, Zhuolin ; Yen, Shih-Cheng ; Sheshadri, Swathi ; Xue, Ning ; LEE, Sanghoon ; Wang, Jiahui ; Thakor, Nitish ; Chengkuo, Lee
Implantable sensors
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Prosthetic devices
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Biolelectric sensors and sensor systems
Various peripheral nerve interfaces have been developed in the last decades and transferred into neuroscientific researches or clinical…
Hypothermia for Preventing Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy – A Safety and Tolerability Study
Bandla, Aishwarya ; Sundar, Raghav ; Tan, Stacey, Sze Hui ; Thakor, Nitish ; Wilder-Smith, Einar P V ; Liao, Lun-De
Clinical engineering
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Clinical trials
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Safety
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a severe dose-limiting side-effect in patients treated with paclitaxel, but no effective…
Investigating the Correlation between the Neural Activity and Task Performance in a Psychomotor Vigilance Test
Hu, Zhongze ; Thakor, Nitish ; Bezerianos, Anastasios ; Sun, Yu
Brain physiology and modeling – Neural dynamics and computation
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Human performance – Fatigue
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Human performance – Attention and vigilance
Neural activity is known to correlate with decrements in task performance as individuals enter the state of mental fatigue which might lead…
Neural Integrity Changes during Rtpa Thrombolysis in a Photothrombotic Hyperacute Ischemia Rat Model
Bandla, Aishwarya ; Liu, Yu-Hang ; Thakor, Nitish ; Liao, Lun-De
Neurological disorders – Stroke
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Brain functional imaging
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Brain functional imaging – Evoked potentials
rtPA therapy for stroke is limited by its short therapeutic time window. Besides, a complete understanding of hyperacute ischemic mechanisms…
Stable Force-Myographic Control of a Prosthetic Hand using Incremental Learning
Rasouli, Mahdi ; Ghosh, Rohan ; lee, Wang Wei ; Thakor, Nitish ; Kukreja, Sunil
Brain machine interfaces and robotics application in robot-aided living
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Neural-robotic interfaces
Force myography has been proposed as an appealing alternative to electromyography for control of upper limb prosthesis. A limitation of this…
VLSI Circuits for Bidirectional Interface to Peripheral and Visceral Nerves
Greenwald, Elliot ; Thakor, Nitish
Neural stimulation (incl deep brain stimulation)
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Muscle stimulation
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Biofeedback and related technologies
This paper presents an architecture for sensing nerve signals and delivering functional electrical stimulation to peripheral and visceral…
