Recent Publications

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• A Visual and Narrative Timeline Review of Spinal Cord Stimulation Technology and US Food and Drug Administration Milestones
  July 6, 2024 by Johnson S Ho, Cynthia Poon, Richard North, William Grubb, Scott Lempka, Marom Bikson
  Neuromodulation: Journal of the International Neuromodulation Society, DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.05.006
• Mechanisms for dysregulation of excitatory-inhibitory balance underlying allodynia in dorsal horn neural subcircuits
  June 25, 2024 by Alexander G Ginsberg, Scott F Lempka, Bo Duan, Victoria Booth, Jennifer Crodelle
  bioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology, DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.10.598179
• Biophysics of Frequency-Dependent Variation in Paresthesia and Pain Relief during Spinal Cord Stimulation
  May 14, 2024 by Evan R Rogers, Marco Capogrosso, Scott F Lempka
  The Journal of Neuroscience: The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2199-23.2024
• Computational modeling of dorsal root ganglion stimulation using an Injectrode
  March 19, 2024 by Sauradeep Bhowmick, Robert D Graham, Nishant Verma, James K Trevathan, Manfred Franke, Stephan Nieuwoudt, Lee E Fisher, Andrew J Shoffstall, Douglas J Weber, Kip A Ludwig, Scott F Lempka
  Journal of Neural Engineering, DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad357f
• High-frequency amplitude-modulated sinusoidal stimulation induces desynchronized yet controllable neural firing
  February 26, 2024 by Beatrice Barra, Ritesh Kumar, Chaitanya Gopinath, Ehsan Mirzakhalili, Scott F Lempka, Robert A Gaunt, Lee E Fisher
  bioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology, DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.14.580219
• Does high-frequency stimulation of sensory axons break the causal link between pain relief and paresthesia?
  February 8, 2024 by Evan R Rogers, Scott F Lempka, Marco Capogrosso
  Neuron, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.01.015
• Multiformity of extracellular microelectrode recordings from Aδ neurons in the dorsal root ganglia: a computational modeling study
  January 3, 2024 by Lauren R Madden, Robert D Graham, Scott F Lempka, Tim M Bruns
  Journal of Neurophysiology, DOI: 10.1152/jn.00385.2023
• Conversion of a medical implant into a versatile computer-brain interface
  December 25, 2023 by Bálint Várkuti, László Halász, Saman Hagh Gooie, Gabriella Miklós, Ricardo Smits Serena, Gijs van Elswijk, Cameron C McIntyre, Scott F Lempka, Andres M Lozano, Loránd Erōss
  Brain Stimulation, DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2023.12.011
• A Definition of Neuromodulation and Classification of Implantable Electrical Modulation for Chronic Pain
  November 12, 2023 by Eellan Sivanesan, Richard B North, Marc A Russo, Robert M Levy, Bengt Linderoth, Salim M Hayek, Sam Eldabe, Scott F Lempka
  Neuromodulation: Journal of the International Neuromodulation Society, DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2023.10.004
• Model-based analysis of subthreshold mechanisms of spinal cord stimulation for pain
  October 31, 2023 by Evan R Rogers, Ehsan Mirzakhalili, Scott F Lempka
  Journal of Neural Engineering, DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad0858
• Postural Changes in Spinal Cord Stimulation Thresholds: Current and Voltage Sources
  October 7, 2023 by Richard B North, Jung H Sung, Liam A Matthews, Hans J Zander, Scott F Lempka
  Neuromodulation: Journal of the International Neuromodulation Society, DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2023.08.006
• Computational modeling of dorsal root ganglion stimulation using an Injectrode
  October 4, 2023 by Sauradeep Bhowmick, Robert D Graham, Nishant Verma, James K Trevathan, Manfred Franke, Stephan Nieuwoudt, Lee E Fisher, Andrew J Shoffstall, Douglas J Weber, Kip A Ludwig, Scott F Lempka
  bioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology, DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.20.558675
• An optimization framework for targeted spinal cord stimulation
  August 30, 2023 by Ehsan Mirzakhalili, Evan R Rogers, Scott F Lempka
  Journal of Neural Engineering, DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/acf522
• Evoked compound action potentials during spinal cord stimulation: effects of posture and pulse width on signal features and neural activation within the spinal cord
  August 2, 2023 by Meagan K Brucker-Hahn, Hans J Zander, Andrew J Will, Jayesh C Vallabh, Jason S Wolff, David A Dinsmoor, Scott F Lempka
  Journal of Neural Engineering, DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aceca4
• Neurotechnology for Pain
  April 17, 2023 by Lee E Fisher, Scott F Lempka
  Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-111022-121637
• Characterization and applications of evoked responses during epidural electrical stimulation
  March 1, 2023 by Nishant Verma, Ben Romanauski, Danny Lam, Luis Lujan, Stephan Blanz, Kip Ludwig, Scott Lempka, Andrew Shoffstall, Bruce Knudson, Yuichiro Nishiyama, Jian Hao, Hyun-Joo Park, Erika Ross, Igor Lavrov, Mingming Zhang
  Bioelectronic Medicine, DOI: 10.1186/s42234-023-00106-5
• Modeling extracellular stimulation of retinal ganglion cells: theoretical and practical aspects
  February 27, 2023 by Kathleen E Kish, Scott F Lempka, James D Weiland
  Journal of Neural Engineering, DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/acbf79
• A systematic review of computational models for the design of spinal cord stimulation therapies: from neural circuits to patient-specific simulations
  November 21, 2022 by Lucy Liang, Arianna Damiani, Matteo Del Brocco, Evan R Rogers, Maria K Jantz, Lee E Fisher, Robert A Gaunt, Marco Capogrosso, Scott F Lempka, Elvira Pirondini
  The Journal of Physiology, DOI: 10.1113/JP282884
• Dorsal root ganglion stimulation produces differential effects on action potential propagation across a population of biophysically distinct C-neurons
  November 17, 2022 by Robert D Graham, Amolak S Jhand, Scott F Lempka
  Frontiers in Pain Research (Lausanne, Switzerland), DOI: 10.3389/fpain.2022.1017344
• Molecular Determinants of Mechanical Itch Sensitization in Chronic Itch
  July 5, 2022 by Hankyu Lee, Robert D Graham, Diana Melikyan, Brennan Smith, Ehsan Mirzakhalili, Scott F Lempka, Bo Duan
  Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2022.937890