RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
发明人:
John S. Choi,Joseph T. Francis
申请号:
US15304305
公开号:
US09974957B2
申请日:
2015.04.14
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要:
Sensory information can be delivered to a subject mammal, for example, for restoring a sense of cutaneous touch and limb motion to the subject mammal. A biomimetic electrical signal is generated based on (a) a stimulation reference signal applied to a somatosensory region of a nervous system of a reference mammal, (b) a stimulated-response signal acquired from a sensory cortex of the reference mammal in response to application of the stimulation reference signal to the thalamic nucleus, and (c) a natural-response signal acquired from the sensory cortex in response to peripheral touch stimuli and/or peripheral nerve stimulation of the reference mammal. The biomimetic electrical signal is applied to a somatosensory region of a nervous system of the subject mammal to induce an activation response, in a sensory cortex of the subject mammal.