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Eric M. Rouiller is affiliated with the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and engineering, with a focus on biomedical engineering and neurology as notable subfields. This scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as muscle activation and electromyography studies, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, spinal cord injury research, neurological disorders and treatments, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, as well as neuroscience and neural engineering.

Their recent publications include:

  • Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys (2022), Nature Neuroscience
  • Intrafascicular peripheral nerve stimulation produces fine functional hand movements in primates (2021), Science Translational Medicine
  • Bayesian optimization of peripheral intraneural stimulation protocols to evoke distal limb movements (2021), Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Epidural Electrical Stimulation of the Cervical Dorsal Roots Restores Voluntary Upper Limb Control in Paralyzed Monkeys (2020), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cortical Projection From the Premotor or Primary Motor Cortex to the Subthalamic Nucleus in Intact and Parkinsonian Adult Macaque Monkeys: A Pilot Tracing Study (2020), Frontiers in Neural Circuits

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jocelyne Bloch (9 collaborations)
  • Grégoire Courtine (8 collaborations)
  • Simon Borgognon (8 collaborations)
  • Florian Fallegger (7 collaborations)
  • Maude Delacombaz (7 collaborations)

The venues where Eric M. Rouiller's work has been published multiple times include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuroscience Insights, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other notable publication venues include Nature Neuroscience and Science Translational Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Transcallosal connections of the distal forelimb representations of the primary and supplementary motor cortical areas in macaque monkeys

    Eric M. Rouiller;A. Babalian;O. Kazennikov;V. Moret

  • Can experiments in nonhuman primates expedite the translation of treatments for spinal cord injury in humans

    Grégoire Courtine;Mary Bartlett Bunge;James W Fawcett;Robert G Grossman

  • Nogo-A-specific antibody treatment enhances sprouting and functional recovery after cervical lesion in adult primates.

    Patrick Freund;Eric Schmidlin;Thierry Wannier;Thierry Wannier;Jocelyne Bloch

  • Mechanisms of recovery of dexterity following unilateral lesion of the sensorimotor cortex in adult monkeys.

    Yu Liu;Eric M. Rouiller

  • Parietal inputs to dorsal versus ventral premotor areas in the macaque monkey: evidence for largely segregated visuomotor pathways

    Judith Tanné-Gariépy;Eric M. Rouiller;Driss Boussaoud

  • Auditory corticocortical interconnections in the cat: evidence for parallel and hierarchical arrangement of the auditory cortical areas.

    E. M. Rouiller;E. M. Rouiller;G. M. Simm;A. E. P. Villa;Y. de Ribaupierre

  • Cerebellothalamocortical and pallidothalamocortical projections to the primary and supplementary motor cortical areas: A multiple tracing study in macaque monkeys

    Eric M. Rouiller;F. Liang;A. Babalian;V. Moret

  • The central projections of intracellularly labeled auditory nerve fibers in cats.

    D. M. Fekete;D. M. Fekete;E. M. Rouiller;M. C. Liberman;M. C. Liberman;D. K. Ryugo;D. K. Ryugo

  • A comparative analysis of the morphology of corticothalamic projections in mammals.

    Eric M Rouiller;Egbert Welker

  • Multisensory anatomical pathways

    C. Cappe;Eric M. Rouiller;P. Barone

  • The Thalamocortical Projection Systems in Primate: An Anatomical Support for Multisensory and Sensorimotor Interplay

    Céline Cappe;Anne Morel;Pascal Barone;Eric M. Rouiller

  • Comparison of the Connectional Properties of the Two Forelimb Areas of the Rat Sensorimotor Cortex: Support for the Presence of a Premotor or Supplementary Motor Cortical Area

    Eric M. Rouiller;Veronique Moret;Fengyi Liang

  • Changes of single unit activity in the cat's auditory thalamus and cortex associated to different anesthetic conditions

    P. Zurita;A.E.P. Villa;Y. de Ribaupierre;F. de Ribaupierre

  • Intracellular marking of physiologically characterized cells in the ventral cochlear nucleus of the cat.

    E. M. Rouiller;E. M. Rouiller;D. K. Ryugo;D. K. Ryugo

  • Direct visual pathways for reaching movements in the macaque monkey.

    Judith Tanné;Driss Boussaoud;Noëlle Boyer-Zeller;Eric M. Rouiller

  • Corticofugal modulation of the information processing in the auditory thalamus of the cat.

    A. E. P. Villa;E. M. Rouiller;G. M. Simm;P. Zurita

  • Anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment enhances sprouting of corticospinal axons rostral to a unilateral cervical spinal cord lesion in adult macaque monkey.

    Patrick Freund;Thierry Wannier;Thierry Wannier;Eric Schmidlin;Jocelyne Bloch

  • Corticomotoneuronal connections in the rat: Evidence from double‐labeling of motoneurons and corticospinal axon arborizations

    Fengyi Liang;Véronique Moret;Mario Wiesendanger;Eric M. Rouiller

  • Do bimanual motor actions involve the dorsal premotor (PMd), cingulate (CMA) and posterior parietal (PPC) cortices? Comparison with primary and supplementary motor cortical areas.

    I. Kermadi;Yu Liu;E. M. Rouiller

  • Dexterity in adult monkeys following early lesion of the motor cortical hand area: the role of cortex adjacent to the lesion

    E.M. Rouiller;X.H. Yu;V. Moret;A. Tempini

Frequent Co-Authors

Jocelyne Bloch
Jocelyne Bloch University of Lausanne
Martin E. Schwab
Martin E. Schwab University of Zurich
Alessandro E. P. Villa
Alessandro E. P. Villa University of Lausanne
David K. Ryugo
David K. Ryugo Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Patrick Freund
Patrick Freund University of Zurich
Driss Boussaoud
Driss Boussaoud Aix-Marseille University
Giorgio M. Innocenti
Giorgio M. Innocenti Karolinska Institute
Grégoire Courtine
Grégoire Courtine École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Brian I. Hyland
Brian I. Hyland University of Otago
Stéphanie P. Lacour
Stéphanie P. Lacour École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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