Seminar - Engineering of Selective Electrodes for Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
Date: September 28, 2001
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Commonwealth Hall, Room: 410
Speaker(s):
Dr. Dominique M. Durand
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosciences
Case Western Reserve University
Details:
Electrical stimulation has been shown to be useful to restore damaged or impaired function of the nervous system as in spinal cord injury or stroke. However, the capability of these systems is limited by our ability to make intimate contact between nerves and electronic systems. In this presentation, the fundamental principles of electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves and the current state-of-the art in electrode design will be reviewed. A novel design which takes into account the plasticity of the nerve will be presented. Finite Element simulations of the interaction between the nerve/cuff interactions as well as results of both acute and chronic experiments will be discussed.
Biosketch:
Dominique M. Durand was born in Monbazillac, France in 1951. He received an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Electronique, Hydrolique, Informatique et Automatique de Toulouse, France in 1973. In 1974, he received a M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Reserve University in Cleveland OH., worked several years at the Addiction Research foundation of Toronto, Canada and in 1982 received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He his currently Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a NSF Young Investigator Presidential Award as well as undergraduate and graduate teaching awards. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering. His research interests are in neural engineering and include computational neuroscience, neurophysiology and control of epilepsy, nonlinear dynamics of neural systems, neural prostheses and applied magnetic and electrical field interactions with neural tissue.
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