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Scott Ensel @scottensel

Neural Engineering PhD student at @RNELabs | Brain-Spine fMRI and Spinal Cord Stimulation

Joined December 2011
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Genis@genisprat
12 Jun 2025
I have a very cool life update: This fall, I will be starting a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh! @RNELabs @ChildrensPgh @PittNeurosurg
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Nature Medicine
@NatureMedicine
11 Feb 2025
Improved muscle function, strength and fatigue measures were observed electrical spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy @scottensel @dona_sere @MCapogrosso, @ElviraPirondini nature.com/articles/s41591-0…

First-in-human study of epidural spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy

Nature Medicine - Improved muscle function, strength and fatigue measures were observed after electrical spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy.

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UPMC@UPMCnews
5 Feb 2025
In a first, @PittTweet and @UPMC researchers use #spinalcordstimulation to reverse neural circuit dysfunction in an inherited degenerative motoneuron disease. Research in collaboration with: @PittHealthSci @PittNeurosurg @UPMC_PMR @MCapogrosso @DrRFriedlander @ElviraPirondini
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Genis@genisprat
5 Feb 2025
Hi X world! This might sound crazy but today we publish in @NatureMedicine a paper showing that neurostimulation can revert motoneuron dysfunction produced by a neurodegenerative disease! @scottensel@dona_sere @DrRFriedlander@ElviraPirondini @MCapogrosso nature.com/articles/s41591-0…

First-in-human study of epidural spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy

Nature Medicine - Improved muscle function, strength and fatigue measures were observed after electrical spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy.

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nicolas kunigk@NKunigk
13 Aug 2024
Excited to share the first paper of my PhD under @jenpgh! Here, we revisit the idea of motor somatotopy in humans implanted with intracortical electrode arrays as part of a clinical study in @RNELabs and @Corbionics 1/9
medRxiv@medrxivpreprint
4 Aug 2024
Motor somatotopy impacts imagery strategy success in human intracortical brain-computer interfaces medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #medRxiv
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Roberto de Freitas@rm_defreitas
29 Apr 2024
IT’S OUT NOW! Here, we characterized surface motor unit action potentials and interference pattern EMG signals obtained from 4 different leg muscles. We made this dataset available for those interested in modeling sEMG in neuromusculoskeletal simulators journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Spectral characterization of human leg EMG signals from an open access dataset for the development...

Large-scale neuromusculoskeletal models have been used for predicting mechanisms underlying neuromuscular functions in humans. Simulations of such models provide several types of signals of practical...

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Genis@genisprat
22 Feb 2024
Hello Twitter world🥳! This might sound crazy but today we share a paper showing that neurostimulation can revert motoneuron dysfunction produced by a neurodegenerative disease!🤯 @scottensel @dona_sere @DrRFriedlander @ElviraPirondini @MCapogrosso medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…👇

Targeted Stimulation of the Sensory Afferents Improves Motoneuron Function in Humans with Spinal...

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease causing motoneuron dysfunction, muscle weakness and early mortality[1][1],[2][2]. Three therapies can slow disease progression...

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Ilaria Ricchi@ilaria_ricchi
14 Dec 2023
Excited to share the completion of our latest project! Dive into our study exploring the feasibility and reliability of spinal cord functional connectivity at the lumosacral region. 📚 @dvdevill @NawalKinany #SpinalCord #fMRI #Reliability biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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Josep M. Balaguer@JMBalaguerSerra
5 Dec 2023
How do people with motor paralysis regain movement using spinal cord stimulation (SCS)? @genisprat and I studied the mechanisms that enable voluntary motor control during SCS after paralysis medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #scs ‼️Spoiler‼️: SCS does NOT facilitate supraspinal inputs…

Supraspinal control of motoneurons after paralysis enabled by spinal cord stimulation

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) restores motor control after spinal cord injury (SCI) and stroke. This evidence led to the hypothesis that SCS facilitates residual supraspinal inputs to spinal motone...

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Jennifer Mak@jmakncheese
12 Nov 2023
Come to my Nanosymposium talk today at 2:45 to hear about investigating how subcortical strokes affect upper limb movements using TMS! 🧠 #SFN23 #SfN2023
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Check out our new #preprint on discriminating levels of #consciousness during anesthesia! We demonstrate that temporal dynamics of functional networks can be a reliable and robust cortical signature of consciousness (1/2) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Transient brain activity dynamics discriminate levels of consciousness during anesthesia

The awake mammalian brain is functionally organized in terms of large-scale distributed networks that are constantly interacting. Loss of consciousness might disrupt this temporal organization...

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Thank you to all our co-authors Lynn Uhrig, Ayberk Ozkirli, Guylaine Hoffner, @JordyTasserie, @StanDehaene, @dvdevill, Bechir Jarraya and my mentor @ElviraPirondini (2/2)
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Jordy Tasserie@JordyTasserie
23 Jul 2023
Amazing talk by @scottensel at #OHBM2023 on ´Signature of Consciousness in the Transient Dynamics of fMRI Brain Activity’ with @ElviraPirondini @bechirjarraya @dvdevill and many others
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Matthew Willsey
@matthew_willsey
22 Jun 2023
Thrilled to announce l will be joining @DellMedSchool at @UTAustin as an assistant professor of neurosurgery.🤘 A special thanks to Dr. Nick Barbaro for this wonderful opportunity. @uthealthaustin @utexasece @UTBiomedical @CockrellSchool #BCI #DBS #neuromodulation
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Erynn Sorensen@ErynnSorensen
20 Feb 2023
🚨New paper out in @NatureMedicine! Epidural Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) has shown amazing results for improving #MotorControl, but does it work in #Stroke? Here we explore the effect of SCS on upper limb motor control in chronic stroke hemiparesis (1/9) nature.com/articles/s41591-0…

Epidural stimulation of the cervical spinal cord for post-stroke upper-limb paresis

Nature Medicine - Electrical stimulation of cervical spinal circuits facilitates arm and hand movements in two participants with moderate and severe chronic post-stroke hemiparesis.

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Matthew Willsey
@matthew_willsey
16 Nov 2022
Happy to introduce our new study in @NatureComms out of @ChestekLab showing high-velocity, simultaneous movements of two finger groups using a temporally-convolved, shallow-layer feedforward neural network. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Real-time brain-machine interface in non-human primates achieves high-velocity prosthetic finger...

Nature Communications - Despite the rapid progress and interest in brain-machine interfaces that restore motor function, the performance of prosthetic fingers and limbs has yet to mimic native...

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RNEL@RNELabs
16 Nov 2022
It looks like that's a wrap for a great week at #SfN2022! Pictured here are only *some* of the many great researchers from RNEL that attended and presented at this year's conference. See you next year in Washington D.C at #SfN2023!
Group photo of researchers from RNEL at SfN

ALT Group photo of researchers from RNEL at SfN

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Chebani@MyDopeConcepts
19 May 2021
My rug finally came in the mail, i have no regrets
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Twitch Rivals
@TwitchRivals
13 Apr 2021
🏋️ 2 Squads 👀 10 Creators 🏆 $10,000 We’ll see who’s got what it takes to rock a powerlifting competition, the @loltyler1 Power Meet, powered by Twitch Rivals. April 19 at 12pm PT at twitch.tv/loltyler1
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