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Jocelyne Bloch is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a focus on several subfields including Neurology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of work cover areas related to neurological disorders and treatments, spinal cord injury research, muscle activation and electromyography studies, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neuroscience and neural engineering, as well as nerve injury and rehabilitation.

Jocelyne Bloch has contributed to a number of publications, with recent significant papers including:

  • Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain-spine interface (2023, Nature)
  • Activity-dependent spinal cord neuromodulation rapidly restores trunk and leg motor functions after complete paralysis (2022, Nature Medicine)
  • The neurons that restore walking after paralysis (2022, Nature)
  • Recruitment of upper-limb motoneurons with epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical spinal cord (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Neuroprosthetic baroreflex controls haemodynamics after spinal cord injury (2021, Nature)

Their frequent publication venues reflect a consistent engagement with journals and repositories such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, Nature Medicine, and Neurosurgery.

Jocelyne Bloch has worked extensively with a group of frequent co-authors including Grégoire Courtine, Stéphanie P. Lacour, Julien F. Bally, Jordan W. Squair, and Eduardo Martin Moraud.

Best Publications

  • Neurodegeneration prevented by lentiviral vector delivery of GDNF in primate models of Parkinson's disease.

    Jeffrey H. Kordower;Marina E. Emborg;Jocelyne Bloch;Shuang Y. Ma

  • 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

  • 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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  • MGMT methylation analysis of glioblastoma on the Infinium methylation BeadChip identifies two distinct CpG regions associated with gene silencing and outcome, yielding a prediction model for comparisons across datasets, tumor grades, and CIMP-status

    Pierre Bady;Davide Sciuscio;Annie Claire Diserens;Jocelyne Bloch

  • Isolation of multipotent neural precursors residing in the cortex of the adult human brain.

    Yvan Arsenijevic;Jean-Guy Villemure;Jean-François Brunet;Jocelyne J. Bloch

  • Enzymatic incorporation of bioactive peptides into fibrin matrices enhances neurite extension.

    Jason C. Schense;Jason C. Schense;Jocelyne Bloch;Patrick Aebischer;Jeffrey A. Hubbell

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • The neurons that restore walking after paralysis

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  • Neuroprotective gene therapy for Huntington's disease, using polymer-encapsulated cells engineered to secrete human ciliary neurotrophic factor: results of a phase I study.

    J. Bloch;A.C. Bachoud-Lévi;N. Déglon;J.P. Lefaucheur

  • Lentiviral gene transfer to the nonhuman primate brain.

    Jeffrey H Kordower;Jocelyne Bloch;Shuang Y Ma;Yaping Chu

  • 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

  • Cerebral metabolic effects of exogenous lactate supplementation on the injured human brain.

    Pierre Bouzat;Pierre Bouzat;Nathalie Sala;Tamarah Suys;Jean-Baptiste Zerlauth

  • Pronounced species divergence in corticospinal tract reorganization and functional recovery after lateralized spinal cord injury favors primates

    Lucia Friedli;Ephron S. Rosenzweig;Quentin Barraud;Martin Schubert

  • Neuroprotective Gene Therapy for Huntington’s Disease Using a Polymer Encapsulated BHK Cell Line Engineered to Secrete Human CNTF

    A.-C. Bachoud-Lévi;N. Déglon;J.-P. Nguyen;J. Bloch

  • Anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment promotes recovery of manual dexterity after unilateral cervical lesion in adult primates--re-examination and extension of behavioral data.

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

  • Long-term outcome of 50 consecutive Parkinson's disease patients treated with subthalamic deep brain stimulation.

    C. Wider;Claudio Pollo;J. Bloch;Pierre Burkhard

  • Recruitment of upper-limb motoneurons with epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical spinal cord.

    Nathan Greiner;Beatrice Barra;Giuseppe Schiavone;Henri Lorach

  • Restoration of cognitive and motor functions by ciliary neurotrophic factor in a primate model of Huntington's disease.

    Vincent Mittoux;Jean-Marc Joseph;Franç Oise Conde;Stephane Palfi

  • Nerve growth factor- and neurotrophin-3-releasing guidance channels promote regeneration of the transected rat dorsal root.

    Jocelyne Bloch;Eric G. Fine;Eric G. Fine;Nicolas Bouche;Anne D. Zurn

  • Progressive plastic changes in the hand representation of the primary motor cortex parallel incomplete recovery from a unilateral section of the corticospinal tract at cervical level in monkeys.

    Eric Schmidlin;Thierry Wannier;Thierry Wannier;Jocelyne Bloch;Eric M Rouiller

Frequent Co-Authors

Grégoire Courtine
Grégoire Courtine École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Eric M. Rouiller
Eric M. Rouiller University of Fribourg
Stéphanie P. Lacour
Stéphanie P. Lacour École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Patrick Aebischer
Patrick Aebischer École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Silvestro Micera
Silvestro Micera Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Martin E. Schwab
Martin E. Schwab University of Zurich
Pierre J. Magistretti
Pierre J. Magistretti École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Patrick Freund
Patrick Freund University of Zurich
Bogdan Draganski
Bogdan Draganski University Hospital of Bern
Qin Li
Qin Li Peking Union Medical College Hospital

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