Just in time for International Women's Day!🦸‍♀️👩‍🔬👩‍💻I am sooooo proud of this paper💜It was a massive team effort with a wonderful group of women. We interviewed 6 women in Neural Engineering about their experiences navigating this field. #WomenInSTEM frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

If you care about the future of neural engineering, this is a must-read. Thoughtful discussion & synthesis of barriers to inclusion, with a particular emphasis on nuanced challenges in interdisciplinary fields like neural engineering. Plus, concrete solution suggestions 🙌

Please check out this excellent and critically important paper from our group addressing the continued need for improvement in gender equity in neural engineering!

Perfect timing for #WomensHistoryMonth! I had a great time working on this paper and got to have some insightful conversations with very accomplished women in this field who have all contributed greatly to this community of neural engineers 🎉

Our research on brain plasticity after hemispherectomy is featured today on NPR. Check out the piece to learn about the story of an exceptional and resilient teenager. npr.org/sections/healt…

How did I miss this wonderful publication by some of Pittsburgh's brightest sharing their experiences as women working in neural engineering? Another great example of the talent we have collaborating across boundaries from University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our Theme J poster on our recent Frontiers in Neuroscience paper is up today from 1pm-5pm at #SfN23 #SfN2023!

The best team! Working with this wonderful group of women has been an absolute pleasure #WomenInSTEM RNEL Maria Jantz Jennifer Mak Erinn M Grigsby Juhi Angelica Herrera, PhD Elvira Pirondini Jen Collinger

Come to my Nanosymposium talk today at 2:45 to hear about investigating how subcortical strokes affect upper limb movements using TMS! 🧠 #SFN23 #SfN2023

How do people with motor paralysis regain movement using spinal cord stimulation (SCS)? Genis and I studied the mechanisms that enable voluntary motor control during SCS after paralysis medrxiv.org/content/10.110… #scs ‼️Spoiler‼️: SCS does NOT facilitate supraspinal inputs…

Extremely proud to announce that our paper on spinal cord stimulation to restore sensation in people with lower-limb amputation is out in Nature Biomedical Engineering! RNEL @ameya_nani Rohit Bose Bailey Petersen University of Pittsburgh UPMC PM&R Pitt Bioengineering NeuroMechatronics Lab nature.com/articles/s4155…

Time to revisit a 40-yr-old theory on brain reorganization We longitudinally scanned patients with planned hand amputations and see highly stable hand and face cortical representations before and after arm amputation Plasticity Lab Chris Baker 🧵1/13 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Our new paper led by Claire Simmons is out in Neuropsychologia! We show that pediatric resection of right *or* left occipitotemporal cortex results in similar deficits in holistic face processing, even though this function is typically right-lateralized. doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

The full program is now available for viewing for #NCMDub24! Join us in Dubrovnik April 15 - 19! ncm-society.org/program/

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…👇

Now out in Nature Human Behaviour We show that people can learn to control bionic hands just as effectively and in some ways better, using unnatural control strategies compared to strategies that mimic natural limb control. nature.com/articles/s4156… Plasticity Lab Chris Baker

WATCH: Bioengineering's David Vorp was inspired by his wife and his PhD student to create the multidisciplinary Hub for #Endometriosis Research (HER) to tackle research and advocacy for this incredibly common yet severely understudied disease: news.engineering.pitt.edu/endometriosis-…

IT’S OUT NOW! Here, we characterized surface motor unit action potentials and interference pattern EMG signals obtained from 4 different leg muscles. We made this dataset available for those interested in modeling sEMG in neuromusculoskeletal simulators + journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Excited to share the first paper of my PhD under Jen Collinger! Here, we revisit the idea of motor somatotopy in humans implanted with intracortical electrode arrays as part of a clinical study in RNEL and Cortical Bionics Research Group 1/9

In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research go.nature.com/4gclXG0