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. 2017 May 31;118(2):1292–1309. doi: 10.1152/jn.00149.2017

Table 2.

Neurostimulators: studies

Device References
TENS, NMES TENS: Catley et al. (2015); Johnson et al. (2015)
NMES: Sheffler and Chae (2007)
Cochlear implant* Clark (1999); Gates et al. (1995); Roche and Hansen (2015)
Spinal cord epidural stimulator (neuromodulation)* Cruccu et al. (2016); Health Quality Ontario (2005); Kumar et al. (2007); Wolter (2014)
Sacral nerve stimulator Al Asari et al. (2014); Gupta et al. (2015); Li et al. (2016); Moya et al. (2016)
Foot-drop stimulator (external)* Bethoux et al. (2014); Liberson et al. (1961); O’Dell et al. (2014); Stein (1998); Stein et al. (2006)
Vagus nerve stimulator* Kennedy and Schallert (2001); Révész et al. (2016); Yuan and Silberstein (2016a, 2016b, 2016c)
Deep brain stimulator* Benabid et al. (2006); Khobragade et al. (2015); Mazzone et al. (2016); Nardone et al. (2014)
Phrenic nerve and diaphragm pacers* Romero et al. (2012); Santangeli and Marchlinski (2015)
Sacral anterior root stimulator implant* Brindley (1974, 1977); Heine et al. (1977); McGee et al. (2015); Tanagho et al. (1989)
Grasp-release stimulators
(external)*
Alon et al. (2007); Buick et al. (2016); Nathan (1994); Prochazka (2002); Prochazka et al. (1996, 1997a)
StimRouter implant* Deer et al. (2010, 2016); Gan et al. (2011); Prochazka (2005)
Grasp-release stimulators (Freehand implant) Knutson et al. (2012); Peckham et al. (1980, 1981); Peckham and Kilgore (2013)
Foot-drop stimulator (implant)§ Haugland et al. (1994); Hoffer et al. (2005); Jeglic et al. (1970); Martin et al. (2016, 2017); Taylor et al. (2016); Waters et al. (1975)
Implanted microstimulators§ Burridge and Etherington (2004); Loeb et al. (2004, 2006); Richmond et al. (2000); Weber et al. (2005)
Visual cortex implant§ Brindley (1974); Brindley and Lewin (1968); Dobelle et al. (1976); Lewis et al. (2015)
Retinal implant§ Barry et al. (2012); da Cruz et al. (2016); Rachitskaya and Yuan (2016)
Somatosensory cortex implant§ Flesher et al. (2016); Kim et al. (2015); Shaikhouni et al. (2013)
Spinal cord epidural stimulator (spatiotemporal)§ Capogrosso et al. (2016); Wenger et al. (2016)
Intraspinal microstimulation for bladder control, limb movement and respiratory pacing§ Bladder: Gaunt and Prochazka (2006); Grill et al. (1999); Jonas et al. (1976); Nashold et al. (1971b, 1981); Pikov et al. (2007); Tai et al. (2004)
Limb movement: Holinski et al. (2013); Mushahwar et al. (2000); Prochazka et al. (2001)
Respiration: Mercier et al. (2017)
*

Commercially available,

discontinued commercially,

§

experimental.