Two stroke patients have regained control of a disabled arm and hand after researchers delivered electrical stimulation to their spines, paving the way toward a medical device that could aid movement. n.pr/3IgXhNP

#Stroke is a terrible disease affecting millions of people every year. We now have a new paper demonstrating the use of #DeepBrainStimulation in the motor thalamus to assist with #motorRecovery after stroke! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super excited about our new #preprints on #DeepBrainStimulation of the motor thalamus to potentiate motor responses. Huge thank you to our team, especially my co-first author Jonathan Ho and our mentors Elvira Pirondini and Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez. 1/10 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out our new #preprint on discriminating levels of #consciousness during anesthesia! We demonstrate that temporal dynamics of functional networks can be a reliable and robust cortical signature of consciousness (1/2) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I really enjoyed working with Natalija Katic Secerovic Stanisa Raspopovic and Marco Capogrosso and am very proud of our results! Restoring natural function through artificial inputs. Does electrical stimulation impact neural processing? We used intraspinal population analysis to answer this question👇

Although movement and imagery share population-wide brain responses in motor cortex, a subset of those exists in orthogonal and unique subspaces. RNEL Brian Dekleva Jen Collinger Raeed Chowdhury Byron Yu PittResearch nature.com/articles/s4156…

Somatosensory cortex and central amygdala regulate neuropathic pain-mediated peripheral immune response via vagal projections to the spleen nature.com/articles/s4159…

Hello Twitter world🥳! This might sound crazy but today we share a paper showing that neurostimulation can revert motoneuron dysfunction produced by a neurodegenerative disease!🤯 Scott Ensel Serena Donadio Robert Friedlander Elvira Pirondini Marco Capogrosso medrxiv.org/content/10.110…👇

Our team at University of Pittsburgh is participating in the NSF’s Innovation-Corps training program this spring. If you or someone you know has expertise in/uses a DBS system, please reach out via email or QR-code below (lnkd.in/eM-YRjiM) to volunteer for a quick call with us!

An fMRI study on anesthetized macaque monkeys examines how different depths of anesthesia uniquely affect brain networks temporal dynamics Elvira Pirondini Scott Ensel Dimitri Van De Ville Jordy Tasserie nature.com/articles/s4200…

🚨New #preprints alert!🚨 Excited to share our work on #DeepBrainStimulation of the motor thalamus to enhance speech & swallowing. This continues our research led by Lilly Tang & me, with guidance from Elvira Pirondini & Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez. 🧠1/8 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Incredibly grateful to have worked with and learned from such an amazing team! This is an important step toward revolutionizing stroke rehabilitation! #NatureComms #Stroke #Neuromodulation RNEL Elvira Pirondini Erinn M Grigsby

Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury, stroke and other neurodegenerative disorders. bit.ly/3Y3OA2C Marco Capogrosso Elvira Pirondini RNEL UPMC PM&R UPMC Physician Resources Jonathan Ho

Congratulations to MS4 Jonathan Ho on his publication in Nature Communications!! Jonathan studied the use of deep brain stimulation on the motor thalamus for upper-limb motor recovery after cerebral lesions. Elvira Pirondini RNEL University of Pittsburgh Pitt Neurosurgery nature.com/articles/s4146…

Brain injury patients gain arm, hand strength with deep brain stimulation, Pitt study finds. post-gazette.com/news/health/20… Elvira Pirondini Marco Capogrosso

Congratulations to our new PGY-1 class. We’re excited to have you join our family! Jonathan Ho, Sumil Nair, Pranav Warman, Carly Weber-Levine & David Zarrin David Zarrin #Match2025 #MatchDay2025 @hopkinsmedicine

Epilepsy study presents a multimodal approach integrating intraoperative thalamic and sub-scalp electroencephalogram recordings with post-implant reconstructions to define neural targets affected by centromedian nucleus stimulation. nature.com/articles/s4146…