• Blake S. Wilson, Charles C. Finley, Dewey T. Lawson, Robert D. Wolford, Donald K. Eddington, and William M. Rabinowitz, "Better speech recognition with cochlear implants," Nature vol. 352, pp. 236-238, July 18, 1991.
• Miyamoto, Richard T., Kirk, Karen Iler, Svirsky, Mario A. and Sehgal, Susan T., "Communication Skills in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients," Acta Oto-Laryngologica, vol. 119(2), pp. 219-224, 1999.
  Week 7: Stephanie Le
• Rahul Sarpeshkar, Christopher Salthouse, Ji-Jon Sit, Michael W. Baker, Serhii M. Zhak, Timothy K.-T. Lu, Lorenzo Turicchia, and Stephanie Balster, "An Ultra-Low-Power Programmable Analog Bionic Ear Processor," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 52(4), pp. 711-727, April 2005.

Retinal Implants and Silicon Retina:

• J.D. Weiland, W. Liu, and M. S. Humayun, "Retinal prosthesis," Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. vol. 7, pp. 361-401, Aug. 2005.
  Also: J.D. Weiland, and M.S. Humayun, "Visual Prosthesis," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 96 (7), pp. 1076-1084, July 2008.
• K.A. Zaghloul and K.A. Boahen, "A silicon retina that reproduces signals in the optic nerve," Journal of Neural Engineering vol. 3, pp. 257-267, 2006.
  Review: Silicon retina mimics biology for a clearer view," by Tom Simonite, New Scientist, 20 Oct. 2006.
  Also: K.A. Boahen, "Neuromorphic Chips," Scientific American, May 2005.
• Tohru Yagi, Masami Watanabe, Yasushi Ohnishi, Shigeru Okuma, and Toshiharu Mukai, "Biohybrid Retinal Implant: Research and Development Update in 2005" Proc. 2nd Int. IEEE EMBS Conf. Neural Engineering (EMBC'2005), Arlington VA, March 16-19, 2005.
• Alan Y. Chow, Vincent Y. Chow, Kirk H. Packo, John S. Pollack, Gholam A. Peyman, and Ronald Schuchard, "The Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip for the Treatment of Vision Loss From Retinitis Pigmentosa," Arch Ophthalmol., vol. 122, pp. 460-469, 2004.
  Week 4: Muthu Annaamalai and Natalie Roberts
• Mahadevappa, M., Weiland, J.D., Yanai, D., Fine, I., Greenberg, R.J., and Humayun, M.S., "Perceptual Thresholds and Electrode Impedance in Three Retinal Prosthesis Subjects," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 13 (2), pp. 201-206, June 2005.

Deep Brain Stimulation:

• M.L. Kringelbach, N. Jenkinson, S.L. Owen, T.Z. Aziz, "Translational principles of deep brain stimulation," Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 8(8), pp. 623-635, Aug. 2007.
• R. Kumar, A.M. Lozano, Y.J. Kim, W.D. Hutchison, E. Sime, E. Halket, and A.E. Lang, "Double-blind evaluation of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in advanced Parkinson's disease," Neurology vol. 51, pp. 850-855, 1998.
• Helen S. Mayberg, Andres M. Lozano, Valerie Voon, Heather E. McNeely, David Seminowicz, Clement Hamani, Jason M. Schwalb, and Sidney H. Kennedy, "Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression," Neuron vol. 45, pp. 651-660, March 3, 2005.
  Review: Thomas Wichmann and Mahlon R. DeLong, "Deep Brain Stimulation for Neurologic and Neuropsychiatric Disorders," Neuron vol. 52(1), pp. 197-204, 2006.
• A. Funkiewiez, C. Ardouin, E. Caputo, P. Krack, V. Fraix, H. Klinger, S. Chabardes, K. Foote, A.-L. Benabid, and P. Pollak, "Long term effects of bilateral subthalamic nucleus stimulation on cognitive function, mood, and behaviour in Parkinsons disease," Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, vol. 75, pp. 834-839, 2004.
  Week 3: Alana Puro and Joseph Tsai
• J.S. Pezaris and R.C. Reid, "Demonstration of artificial visual percepts generated through thalamic microstimulation," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (PNAS) vol. 104(18), pp. 7670-7675, May 1, 2007.
• W.V. Soussou, G.J. Yoon, R.D. Brinton, and T.W. Berger, "Neuronal network morphology and electrophysiology of hippocampal neurons cultured on surface-treated multielectrode arrays," IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. vol. 54(7), pp. 1309-20, Jul. 2007.
  Review: Brain prosthesis passes live tissue test," by Helen Philips, New Scientist, 25 Oct. 2004.

• P. Hunter Peckham, Jayme S. Knutson, "Functional Electrical Stimulation for Neuromuscular Applications," Ann. Rev. Biomedical Engineering vol. 7, pp. 327-360, August 2005.
• Arie Oliven, Robert P. Schnall, Giora Pillar, Noam Gavriely, and Majed Odeh, "Sublingual electrical stimulation of the tongue during wakefulness and sleep," Respiration Physiology, vol. 127, pp. 217-226, 2001.
  Week 6: Saifuddin Amath
• Thomas Fuhr, Jochen Quintern, Robert Riener, and Gunther Schmidt, "Walking with WALK!," IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, vol. 27(1), pp. 38-48, Jan./Febr. 2008.
• Jonathan R. Wolpaw and Dennis J. McFarland, "Control of a two-dimensional movement signal by a non-invasive brain-computer interface in humans," Proc. Nat. Academy of Science (PNAS), vol. 101(51), pp. 17849-17854, Dec. 21, 2004.
• J.M. Carmena, M.A. Lebedev, R.E. Crist, J.E. O'Doherty, D.M. Santucci, et al., "Learning to Control a Brain-Machine Interface for Reaching and Grasping by Primates," PLoS Biol, vol. 1(2), pp. e42, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0000042, 2003.
  Week 5: Jeff Brooks
• Andrew Jackson, Jaideep Mavoori, and Eberhard E. Fetz, "Long-term motor cortex plasticity induced by an electronic neural implant," Nature vol. 444, pp. 56-60, 2 November 2006.
• J.P. Uhlir, R.J. Triolo, J.A. Davis, C. Bieri, "Performance of epimysial stimulating electrodes in the lower extremities of individuals with spinal cord injury," IEEE Trans. Rehabilitation Engineering vol. 12(2), pp 279-287, June 2004.
  Also: V.K. Mushahwar and K.W. Horch, "Proposed specifications for a lumbar spinal cord electrode array for control of lower extremities in paraplegia," IEEE Trans. Rehabilitation Engineering vol. 5(3), pp 237-243, Sept. 1997.
• A. Chatterjee, V. Aggarwal, A. Ramos, S. Acharya, and N.V. Thakor, "A brain-computer interface with vibrotactile biofeedback for haptic information," J. Neuroeng. Rehabil., vol. 4(40), 2007.
  Week 9: Jamie Rogers
• F. Tenore, A. Ramos, S. Acharya, R. Etienne-Cummings and N.V. Thakor, "Decoding of individuated finger movements using surface electromyography," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., in press, 2008.

Emerging Technologies:

• Gabriel A. Silva, "Neuroscience nanotechnology: progress, opportunities and challenges," Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 7, pp. 65-74, January 2006.
• Thomas Webster, Michael Waid, Janice McKenzie, Rachel Price, and Jeremiah Ejiofor, "Nano-biotechnology: carbon nanofibres as improved neural and orthopaedic implants," Nanotechnology, vol. 15, pp. 48-54, 2004.
• Edward Boyden, Feng Zhang, Ernst Bamberg, Georg Nagel, Karl Deisseroth, "Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity," Nature Neuroscience, vol. 8, pp. 1263-1268, 2005.
  Review: Shining New Light on Neural Circuits," by G. Miller, Science, vol. 314, pp. 1674-1676, 2006.
• F. Zhang, L.-P. Wang, M. Brauner, J. Liewald, K. Kay, N. Watzke, P. Wood, E. Bamberg, G. Nagel, A. Gottschalk, and K. Deisseroth, "Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry," Nature, vol. 446, pp. 633-639, 2007.
  Review: Optical excitation yin and yang," by D. Evanko, Nature Methods, vol. 4, p. 384, 2007.
• E.J. Bradbury, L.D. Moon, R.J. Popat, V.R. King, G.S. Bennett, P.N. Patel, J.W. Fawcett, and S.B. McMahon, "Chondroitinase ABC promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury," Nature,, vol. 416(6881), pp. 636-40, 2002.
  Review: "Medicine: Clearing a path for nerve growth," by L. Olson, Nature 416(6881), pp. 589-590, 2002.