Excited to release our arm tracking toolbox (NCams: github.com/CMGreenspon/NC…)! It extends DeepLabCut 🦄 to any number of cameras and uses OpenSim to calculate the kinematics from the triangulated points. Developed with Anton Sobinov & sliman bensmaia (@[email protected])

Research team - studying neural coding and neuroprosthetics- looking for a software/electronics engineer to design/run scientific rigs and interface brains with machines. C++, Python, and Matlab required. bensmaialab.org. Yep. It's that cool. Hollah.

Sensory neuroscience and neuroprosthetics lab seeking part-time engineer to help design and build robots to study how the brain works. Experience in mechanical engineering required. Experience with robotics, machining, and electrical engineering preferred. #robotics #neuroscience

A very fast and efficient way of approximating musculoskeletal variables. Check it out! With Sergiy Yakovenko Valeriya Gritsenko Lee Fisher Robert Gaunt journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Why tf some pdfs of papers from Brain have prohibited copying, e.g. doi.org/10.1093/brain/… ? Especially if you can copy in browser view. Wasted 10 mins thinking my reader was broken.

University of Chicago team working with human subjects to create more dexterous brain-controlled bionic hands looking for a programmer to help develop experimental software (MATLAB, C++, Python). bensmaialab.org. #bci #neuroscience #robotics #bionics #neuroengineering

Scott Imbrie, ladies and gentlemen! Meet our BCI research participant at University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute The University of Chicago.

It's exciting to see intracortical brain-computer interface research expanding to include more research sites and participants.

How are hands so versatile and precise? Anton Sobinov and I review the anatomy of the hand, its musculature, and the expansive neural circuits that mediate manual dexterity. I learned a lot writing this and hope you will too! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Macaques are a popular animal model to study the neural basis of human dexterity because prehension is similar in macaques and humans. Yuke Yan Anton Sobinov and I carefully compare prehensile kinematics in these two species. Check it out. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Come join our team!

Today, Anton Sobinov and I discovered that our paper in Nature Rev Neurosci on the neural mechanisms of manual dexterity is featured on the cover! And the illustration involves a piano! How fun!

A robotic system developed in Dr. sliman bensmaia (@[email protected])'s lab has received nearly $10M in funding. This system will allow unprecedented accuracy for recording movements of the hand, which will help researchers restore a sense of touch for patients. ms.spr.ly/6019ZaA05

Today marks 10 years since we started our intracortical BCI trial in Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh & UPMC PM&R. We would like to thank Jan for her dedication and contributions to research and for being an inspiration to so many. She is truly a pioneer! 🦾🧠🦸‍♀️ (a thread: 1/5)

Hear ye, hear ye! ICMS of human somatosensory cortex (S1) activates motor cortex (M1), this activity is task-dependent and somatotopically patterned, and disrupts motor decoding. Collaboration between The University of Chicago UPMC Northwestern biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Looking for a programmer with expertise in C++ and Matlab or Python to control robots and interface them directly with the nervous system. Join an existing team of fantastic programmers and engineers to push the boundaries of BCIs. If interested, DM me. #BCI Cortical Bionics Research Group

ICMS to human S1 evokes touch sensations experienced over a spatially restricted patch of skin. We take a deep dive into the size, distribution, reliability, and neural determinants of these so-called projected fields. Charles M. Greenspon & Cortical Bionics Research Group. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Postdoctoral Scholar position is open in the Hatsopoulos Lab and Sensorimotor Bionics Group. We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work in sensorimotor neuroscience with a focus on manual dexterity in non-human primates beginning in January, 2025.

#SfN was a lot of fun this year, Liza Okorokova, Alexandriya Emonds, and Neema Darabi gave outstanding presentations! Looking forward to seeing everyone in San Diego next year!

Check out our new preprint about changes in cortical grasp-related activity before and after object contact in primates: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Liza Okorokova sliman bensmaia (@[email protected])