Ocular Motor & Vestibular Deficits in Neurodegenerative Diseases
The journal topic includes several articles written by Dr. Shaikh and FES Center Investigator, Fatema Ghasia, MD.
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The American Parkinson Disease Association Awards More Than $1.7 Million in Cutting-Edge Research Grants
With someone diagnosed with PD every nine minutes, this research is critical as we push for better treatments and ultimately, a cure.
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Cleveland Clinic Researchers Awarded $2.5M NIH Grant to Enhance DBS for Stroke Recovery
First-of-its-kind clinical trial exploring the use of DBS to restore motor function in patients who have suffered a stroke.
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Hands-on improvements
Amputees use new, naturalistic sensory device at home for daily tasks, gain greater sense of personal well-being and connection to loved ones
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A Tool for Pain Relief
Acute and chronic pain affect at least 100 million U.S. adults and cost the nation up to $630 billion in medical treatment and lost productivity annually.
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First Place, 2018 International Annual BCI-Research Award
The Cleveland FES Center congratulates Bolu Ajiboye, PhD and Robert Kirsch, PhD on receiving first place for the 2018 International Annual Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Research Award, for their project entitled “Restoring Functional Reach-to-Grasp in a Person with Chronic Tetraplegia using Implanted Functional Electrical Stimulation and Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces.” The Brain Computer Interface Award is…
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The mind-reading devices that can free paralysed muscles
Technologies that restore movement and the sense of touch are helping people to overcome the physical effects of stroke and spinal-cord injury.
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I Was Paralyzed By a Spinal Cord Injury – and It’s Made My Life More Fulfilling
Christopher Wynn broke his neck diving into the ocean. Now, he runs an activity-based recovery program for other injured people. Wynn has benefited from functional electrical stimulation, which provides him with the ability to grasp objects. Read full story…
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Feel Me. What the new science of touch says about ourselves.
The sensors in the prosthetic hand feed information from the world into the wires in Spetic’s arm. Since, from the brain’s point of view, his hand is still there, it needs only to be recalled to life. Read full story…
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Ideas in movement: The next wave of brain-computer interfaces
Seconds after a brief smile of anticipation flashed across her face, Jan Scheuermann moved a bar of chocolate toward her mouth by controlling a robotic prosthetic arm. Finally, she took a bite. As she relished the taste, the team of neuroscientists and engineers in the room erupted in applause. It was no small feat for…
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Latest study from BrainGate team shows new advances in direct cortical control of computer
In the latest report on BrainGate, an investigational device that allows people with paralysis to control computer cursors just by thinking about the movement of their own hand, researchers describe the best performance yet by study volunteers using the system. The report is in the October 2015 issue of Nature Medicine. Read more…
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Jennifer French: One of the First Bionic Women Shares the Value of the Neurotech Network
Jennifer French from St. Petersburg, Florida, is an incomplete quadriplegic. Thanks to advancements in assistive technology, she can stand, transfer, exercise and live independently. To promote new studies, equipment, treatments and therapies that can help people with neurological problems easier, she and her husband created the Neurotech Network in 1998. This non-profit organization is dedicated to improving the education of…
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Dr. Kevin Kilgore receives $2.4 million federal grant
A researcher at Case Western Reserve University received a $2.4 million federal grant to figure out why high-frequency electrical stimulation to the spinal cord reduces or eliminates chronic pain. Read more…
A Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
An innovative prosthetic hand is allowing people to feel again Igor Spetic, 49, lost his right hand in a work related accident five years ago. But on Oct. 9, he got to bring home an innovative prosthetic hand for the first time, one that not only has more precise gripping, but gives him back his…
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DARPA Tech Could Give Artificial Hands Sense of Touch
Veterans with prosthetic hands could someday regain their sense of touch thanks to a new DARPA initiative. It’s called the Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program, and the goal is to let amputees “feel” objects with technology that would send signals back and forth between the brain and artificial hand. Read the full article
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Artificial Skin That Senses, and Stretches, Like the Real Thing
Some high-tech prosthetic limbs can be controlled by their owners, using nerves, muscles, or even the brain. However, there’s no way for the wearer to tell if an object is scalding hot, or about to slip out of the appendage’s grasp. Materials that detect heat, pressure, and moisture could help change this by adding sensory…
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Brain-Computer Interface Devices to Bring Us into the Future
Addressing regulators, members of industry, and other stakeholders, Jennifer French delivered a powerful message about those requiring brain–computer interface (BCI) devices to treat paralysis and other neurological conditions: “We are not patients; we are consumers, end users.” French, who is quadriplegic, spoke at a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) workshop, held Nov. 21 at…
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State of the FES Center 2014, Robert F. Kirsch, PhD, Executive Director
Cleveland, OH – October 29, 2014 State of the FES Center 2014 presented by Robert F. Kirsch, PhD, Executive Director Click here to download the full presentation.
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FES Center is Recognized as the Most Valuable Non-Profit in the Field of Neuromodulation Research
Cleveland, OH – October 24, 2014 The Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Center is recognized as the Most Valuable Non-Profit in the field of Neuromodulation Research. Neurotech Reports, the publisher of the Neurotech Business Report newsletter, announced the winners of the 2014 Gold Electrode Awards at the 2014 Neurotech Leaders Forum on October 20 in…
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WKYC Channel 3 | Dr. Robert Kirsch presents Neuro-Stimulation and the FES Center
Electrical currents are being used to help control the movement of otherwise paralyzed limbs.Dr. Robert Kirsch, Executive Director of the FES (Functional Electrical Stimulation) Center joins Michael & Maureen to discuss more about this amazing technique and just how beneficial the treatment can be! Watch Presentation…
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Getting Back in Touch with the World | Restoring Sensation after Limb Loss | Video Presentation
When you prick your finger, what you feel is a consequence of activity in the brain, not the finger itself. Biomedical engineers using this concept are leading an evolution in protheses that help the estimated 2 million Americans who suffer from limb loss to “feel” their missing limbs again. This emerging field of devices for…
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Neurostimulation Helped This Paralympian Walk Again
Prior to sustaining a spinal cord injury in 1998, Jennifer French was, among other sports, an active snowboarder and skier, sailor, fly fisher, and scuba diver. Today, thanks to her neurostimulation implants, she still is. In 1999 French became the first woman to receive the Stand and Transfer implant system created by the Cleveland Functional…
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
Igor Spetic’s hand was in a fist when it was severed by a forging hammer three years ago as he made an aluminum jet part at his job. For months afterward, he felt a phantom limb still clenched and throbbing with pain. “Some days it felt just like it did when it got injured,” he…
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Discovery Channel Presents: Sense of Touch
Sense of Touch, a segment on Dr. Tyler’s VA research, coordinated by the Cleveland FES Center, aired January 14, 2014 on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. Program Link
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