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Overview

Grégoire Courtine is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Neuroscience. Within these domains, significant contributions have been made in subfields such as Neurology, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their scientific work covers a range of main topics including Spinal Cord Injury Research, Muscle activation and electromyography studies, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Neurological disorders and treatments, and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments.

Frequent publication venues for Grégoire Courtine's work include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Nature, and Nature Medicine. Among these, the highest number of publications appear in Zenodo and bioRxiv repositories.

Repeated collaborators include Jocelyne Bloch, Jordan W. Squair, Michael A. Skinnider, Matthieu Gautier, and Quentin Barraud.

Recent selected publications illustrate the scope and focus areas of their research:

  • "Confronting false discoveries in single-cell differential expression" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain-spine interface" (2023), published in Nature
  • "Activity-dependent spinal cord neuromodulation rapidly restores trunk and leg motor functions after complete paralysis" (2022), published in Nature Medicine
  • "Wearable Sensor-Based Real-Time Gait Detection: A Systematic Review" (2021), published in Sensors
  • "The neurons that restore walking after paralysis" (2022), published in Nature

Best Publications

  • Electronic dura mater for long-term multimodal neural interfaces

    Ivan R. Minev;Pavel Musienko;Arthur Hirsch;Quentin Barraud

  • Targeted neurotechnology restores walking in humans with spinal cord injury

    Fabien B. Wagner;Fabien B. Wagner;Jean-Baptiste Mignardot;Jean-Baptiste Mignardot;Camille G. Le Goff-Mignardot;Camille G. Le Goff-Mignardot;Robin Demesmaeker;Robin Demesmaeker

  • Confronting false discoveries in single-cell differential expression.

    Jordan W. Squair;Jordan W. Squair;Jordan W. Squair;Matthieu Gautier;Matthieu Gautier;Claudia Kathe;Claudia Kathe;Mark A. Anderson;Mark A. Anderson

  • Restoring Voluntary Control of Locomotion after Paralyzing Spinal Cord Injury

    Rubia van den Brand;Janine Heutschi;Janine Heutschi;Quentin Barraud;Quentin Barraud;Jack DiGiovanna

  • Recovery of supraspinal control of stepping via indirect propriospinal relay connections after spinal cord injury.

    Gregoire Courtine;Bingbing Song;Roland R Roy;Hui Zhong

  • Transformation of nonfunctional spinal circuits into functional states after the loss of brain input.

    Grégoire Courtine;Yury Gerasimenko;Rubia van den Brand;Aileen Yew

  • Materials and technologies for soft implantable neuroprostheses

    Stéphanie P. Lacour;Grégoire Courtine;Jochen Guck

  • A brain–spine interface alleviating gait deficits after spinal cord injury in primates

    Marco Capogrosso;Tomislav Milekovic;David Borton;David Borton;Fabien Wagner

  • Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface

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  • Required growth facilitators propel axon regeneration across complete spinal cord injury

    Mark A. Anderson;Mark A. Anderson;Timothy M. O’Shea;Joshua E. Burda;Yan Ao

  • 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

  • Extensive spontaneous plasticity of corticospinal projections after primate spinal cord injury

    Ephron S Rosenzweig;Gregoire Courtine;Gregoire Courtine;Devin L Jindrich;John H Brock

  • A Computational Model for Epidural Electrical Stimulation of Spinal Sensorimotor Circuits

    Marco Capogrosso;Marco Capogrosso;Nikolaus Wenger;Stanisa Raspopovic;Stanisa Raspopovic;Pavel Musienko

  • Spinal cord repair: advances in biology and technology.

    Grégoire Courtine;Grégoire Courtine;Michael V. Sofroniew

  • Spatiotemporal neuromodulation therapies engaging muscle synergies improve motor control after spinal cord injury

    Nikolaus Wenger;Nikolaus Wenger;Eduardo Martin Moraud;Jerome Gandar;Pavel Musienko

  • Training locomotor networks

    V. Reggie Edgerton;Grégoire Courtine;Yury P. Gerasimenko;Igor Lavrov

  • MUSCLE SPINDLE FEEDBACK DIRECTS LOCOMOTOR RECOVERY AND CIRCUIT REORGANIZATION AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY

    Aya Takeoka;Isabel Vollenweider;Gregoire Courtine;Silvia Arber

  • Electrical spinal cord stimulation must preserve proprioception to enable locomotion in humans with spinal cord injury.

    Emanuele Formento;Karen Minassian;Fabien Wagner;Jean-Baptiste Mignardot

  • Human walking along a curved path. I. Body trajectory, segment orientation and the effect of vision.

    Grégoire Courtine;Marco Schieppati

  • The neurons that restore walking after paralysis

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  • Cortico-reticulo-spinal circuit reorganization enables functional recovery after severe spinal cord contusion.

    Leonie Asboth;Lucia Friedli;Janine Beauparlant;Cristina Martinez-Gonzalez

  • Plasticity of spinal cord reflexes after a complete transection in adult rats: relationship to stepping ability.

    Igor Lavrov;Yury P. Gerasimenko;Ronaldo M. Ichiyama;Gregoire Courtine

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvestro Micera
Silvestro Micera Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Jocelyne Bloch
Jocelyne Bloch University of Lausanne
Stéphanie P. Lacour
Stéphanie P. Lacour École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Mark H. Tuszynski
Mark H. Tuszynski University of California, San Diego
Hui Zhong
Hui Zhong University of California, Los Angeles
Yury Gerasimenko
Yury Gerasimenko Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Thierry Pozzo
Thierry Pozzo Italian Institute of Technology
Adam R. Ferguson
Adam R. Ferguson University of California, San Francisco
Jacqueline C. Bresnahan
Jacqueline C. Bresnahan University of California, San Francisco
Michael S. Beattie
Michael S. Beattie University of California, San Francisco

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