Defining ecological strategies in neuroprosthetics

Grégoire Courtine; Jocelyne Bloch

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.039

Defining ecological strategies in neuroprosthetics

Neuron. 2015 Apr 8;86(1):29-33. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.039.

Authors

Grégoire Courtine¹, Jocelyne Bloch²

Affiliations

¹ International Paraplegic Foundation Chair in Spinal Cord Repair, Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1013 Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: gregoire.courtine@epfl.ch.
² Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Neurosurgery, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.

PMID: 25856483
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.039

Abstract

Neurological disorders disrupt the equilibrium within the brain and spinal cord ecosystems. Ecology reuses, recycles, and reduces to help maintain the balance across ecosystems. Likewise, neuroprosthetics can help the brain help itself with ecoprosthetic designs that integrate the principles of the "three 'R's."

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Brain / physiology*
Ecology*
Humans
Neural Prostheses*