• 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.
• 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:

• 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.
  Week 6: Michael Fenlon, Ryan Ferrell, and Michelle Mimay
• J.D. Weiland, W. Liu, and M. S. Humayun, "Retinal prosthesis," Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. vol. 7, pp. 361-401, Aug. 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.
  Week 3: Inen Cheng, Roxana Hazin, and Alex Kawas
• 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.
  Week 8: Vinh Hoang, and Woo Kim
• 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.
  Week 5: Alex Ohlendorf, Jeff Schoellerman, and Rachael Spradley

• P. Hunter Peckham, Jayme S. Knutson, "Functional Electrical Stimulation for Neuromuscular Applications," Ann. Rev. Biomedical Engineering vol. 7, pp. 327-360, August 2005.
• 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.
• 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.
  Week 7: Nisha Patel, Radhika Ramkumar, and Birajkumar Shah
• 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.
  Week 4: Kathryn Olson, and Polly Troy

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.
  Week 9: In-class discussion
• 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.