Topic: microelectrodes

Human sleep is a complex physiological process necessary for the organisms’ restoration and the correct functioning of the brain. Insufficient sleep is an under-reported epidemic with sleep disturbances being common early signs of neurodegeneration, in particular of Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Clinical research is currently challenging the assumption that human sleep is a one-fits-all phenomenon: breaking new grounds into sleep research is needed. In this scenario, the European Research Council PathFinder Open project NAP proposes a new science-toward-technology paradigm enabling the study of hu

Neural stimulation is an important technology not only for fundamental neuroscience studies, but also for therapeutic purposes and advanced devices like neuroprosthetics and brain machine interfaces. To achieve an accurate stimulation on a cellular level, invasive devices are normally used especially for deep brain stimulation. A widely used stimulation mechanism is by injecting current with microelectrodes, which has the limitation of tissue damage on the electrode/electrolyte interface. Another stimulation mechanism is based on microscale magnetic field, which requires complicated fabricatio