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In optogenetics, light-sensitive proteins are genetically targeted into specific classes of neurons in living animal models (typically mice), making possible to control their neural activity by means of visible light delivered into the brain tissue. In this paper, recent advances on techniques for in-vivo optical stimulation and inhibition of neuronal activity in optogenetic experiments are report...Show More
This paper demonstrates a commercial off-the-shelf components (COTS)-based miniaturized wireless optogenetic headstage with simultaneous optical stimulation and electro-physiological recording capability for freely moving rodents. The proposed headstage contains 32 recording channels. The optical stimulation system is a battery-powered neural stimulator, comprised of a low dropout regulator (LDO),...Show More
Optogenetic stimulation of peripheral motor nerves offers several attractive properties for stimulation of muscle activity. One drawback of this approach is that the relatively slow channel kinetics of standard opsins such as channel-rhodopsin2 (ChR2) limit the frequency of stimulation trains that may be used compared to traditional electrical stimulation approaches. However, propagation of light-...Show More
Multisensory stimulation plays an important role in the recovery of ischemic stroke. However, little is known about the interactions between neuronal activities with multi-afferent stimulations and their effects on hemodynamic responses. Optogenetics has been a useful tool in neuroscience research to unravel the mechanisms of neurovascular coupling at cell-specific level. In this study, we applied...Show More
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing global health issue with no fundamental cure, prompting the need for innovative treatment approaches. In this context, our research, in collaboration with medical doctors and co-researchers, focuses on the protective effects of sympathetic nerve stimulation in the kidneys, aiming to develop new therapeutic strategies. Traditional methods, such as pharmacol...Show More
With its potential of single cell specificity, optogenetics has made the investigation into the brain circuits more controllable. Closed loop optogenetic brain stimulation enhances the efficacy of the stimulation by adjusting the stimulation parameters based on direct feedback from the target area of the brain. It combines the principles of genetics, physiology, electrical engineering, optics, sig...Show More
Stimulation of target neuronal populations using optogenetic techniques during specific sleep stages has begun to elucidate the mechanisms and effects of sleep. To conduct closed-loop optogenetic sleep studies in untethered animals, we designed a fully integrated, low-power system-on-chip (SoC) for real-time sleep stage classification and stage-specific optical stimulation. The SoC consists of a 4...Show More
Optogenetics gives us unprecedented power to investigate brain connectivity. The ability to activate neural circuits with single cell resolution and its ease of application has provided a wealth of knowledge in brain function. More recently, optogenetics has shown tremendous utility in prosthetics applications, including vision restoration for patients with retinitis pigmentosa. One of the disadva...Show More
The experimental use of CMOS high-density neural probes enables the wide field observation of the electrical activity of neural circuits at the resolution of single neurons. Optogenetic light stimulation allows to control and modulate the activity of neural cells, in a genetically selective manner. The combination of these techniques can be a powerful approach for investigating mechanisms of brain...Show More
Brain state heavily influences our perception, cognition, and behavior. Multiple neuromodulatory systems, including the locus coeruleus - norepinephrine (LC-NE) system, contribute to the regulation of brain state. This research harnesses machine learning and optogenetics technologies to probe the impact of the LC on cortical state and pupillary responses in awake mice. Our integrative approach com...Show More
We present a wireless multimodal neural interface device to record neural activities of neurons in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) and muscle electrical activities (EMG) of the selected muscles of 4 limbs, while selectively manipulating neural activities in DRGs of freely locomoting cats via optogenetic stimulation. The neural interface device has 4 identical 8-channel analog front-end (AFE) circuits fo...Show More
In this paper, we report a mixed-signal chip in 0.13-μm designed for long term autonomous operation that can trigger low-latency stimulation upon the detection of complex neural firing patterns. This adaptive autonomous neural IC (AANIC) includes: i) circuits for multi-site optogenetics stimulation and multi-unit electrophysiology recording, ii) specialized digital cores to detect, compress, and c...Show More
Optogenetics is a new approach for controlling neural circuits with numerous applications in both basic and clinical science. In retinal degenerative diseases, the photoreceptors die, but inner retinal cells remain largely intact. By expressing light sensitive proteins in the remaining cells, optogenetics has the potential to offer a novel approach to restoring vision. In the past several years, o...Show More
Objective: The ability to record and to control action potential firing in neuronal circuits is critical to understand how the brain functions. The objective of this study is to develop a monolithic integrated circuit (IC) to record action potentials and simultaneously control action potential firing using optogenetics. Methods: A low-noise and high input impedance (or low input capacitance) neura...Show More
We present a wireless electro-optic headstage that uses a 0.13-μm CMOS custom integrated circuit (IC) implementing a digital neural decoder (ND-IC) for enabling real-time closed-loop (CL) optogenetics. The ND-IC processes the neural activity data using three digital cores: 1) the detector core detects and extracts the action potential (AP) of individual neurons by using an adaptive threshold; 2) t...Show More
In this letter, we developed an integrated neural probe prototype for optogenetic stimulation by microscale light-emitting diode (μLED) and simultaneous recording of neural activities with microelectrodes on a single-polyimide platform. Optogenetics stimulates in vivo neural circuits with high-cellular specificity achieved by genetic targeting and precise temporal resolution by interaction of ligh...Show More
The brain is a large network of interconnected neurons where each cell functions as a nonlinear processing element. Unraveling the mysteries of information processing in the complex networks of the brain requires versatile neurostimulation and imaging techniques. Optogenetics is a new stimulation method which allows the activity of neurons to be modulated by light. For this purpose, the cell-types...Show More
NOise Reduction with DIstribution Corrected (NORDIC) principal component analysis (PCA) has been shown to selectively suppress thermal noise and improve temporal signal-to-noise ratio (tSNR) in human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, the feasibility to improve rodent fMRI using NORDIC PCA has not been explored. In this study, we developed a rodent fMRI preprocessing pipeline b...Show More
This work presents a miniaturized wireless power transfer (WPT) system integrated with a neuromodulation headstage for duty-cycled optical stimulation of freely moving rodents. The proposed WPT system is built using the commercially available off-the-shelf components (COTS) for the optogenetic neuromodulation system consisting of a bridge rectifier, a DC-DC converter, an oscillator circuit, an LED...Show More
This letter presents an ultrasonically powered dual-wavelength optogenetic device that targets simultaneous excitation and inhibition of neural activities, or in a broader sense, optical stimulation in two distinct wavelengths for targeting different populations of neurons. This can be applied to a variety of neurological disorders. The device features a load regulator circuit that shares the avai...Show More
This paper presents a manufacturing process for flexible optical waveguides made of biocompatible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to be attached to future optogenetic implants. Based on a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), the system uses integrated single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) as sensors for fluorescence imaging (FI) and post-CMOS ...Show More
The advent of new methods to optically trigger neural activity has increased the demand for new techniques to deliver light into the brain. However, currently available technologies are limited by the overall invasiveness of optical neural implants. In this work we present a new and minimally invasive technology based on tapered, metal-coated and nanostructured optical fibers, allowing for the cus...Show More
This brief presents an ultrasonically powered micro-system for deep tissue optogenetic stimulation. The developed system is composed of a Base for Powering and Controlling (BPC) and an implantable Dust for optogenetics and drug delivery. The Dust consists of a piezoelectric crystal, a rectifier chip, and a micro-scale custom-designed light-emitting-diode $(\mu $ LED) integrated, miniaturized, and...Show More
Correlating neural communication in brain networks with behavior and cognition can provide fundamental insights into the functionality of both healthy and diseased brains. We demonstrate how communication in the brain can be estimated from recorded neural activity using concepts from graph signal processing. The communication is modeled as a flow signals on the edges of a graph and naturally arise...Show More
The study of C. elegans responses to external stimuli is crucial for understanding their locomotion patterns. Common stimuli include optogenetic stimulation, electrical stimulation, and chemical stimulation. Investigating the locomotion responses of C. elegans to these stimuli helps scientists understand how the nervous system integrates external signals to produce appropriate motor responses. How...Show More