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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação (FEEC) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering with the Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil). He is the current Coordinator of the Electrical Engineering Graduate Program. Former Director (2017-2023) and Co-Director (2023-2025) of the Center for Biomedical Engineering, UNICAMP. Founder and head of the Neural Engineering Research Laboratory (NER Lab). His research in neural engineering focuses on theoretical/computational and experimental investigations that aim to understand how different neuromusculoskeletal system elements interact during normal and pathological control of human movement. Also, based on basic research, his group designs new technologies for motor neurorehabilitation of neurological patients and amputees. Dr. Elias received the BS in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Goias (Brazil) in 2008, and the MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Biomedical Engineering Lab, University of São Paulo (2013-2015), and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Neurorehabilitation Engineering, Georg-August University (Goettingen, Germany, 2015). He has Habilitation ("privatdozent") in Biomedical Engineering from UNICAMP (2022). He is a member of the International MotoNeuron Society, IEEE + IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science, and Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer of the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of the eLife journal. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Rehabilitation treatments for neuromuscular disorders are variable across clinical centers and national healthcare systems and are largely dependent on the clinical experience of the practitioners. One of the main difficulties of the treatment is to monitor the progress of rehabilitation before signs of motor improvements. Misinformation may frustrate the patient and the practitioner and …
The neurophysiological control of muscle force comprises a complex interplay between elements of the nervous, muscular and skeletal systems. From a neurophysiological standpoint, the activity of motor units and sensory afferents are of paramount importance to shape the motor output during the execution of different tasks. In this research project, the neurophysiological control of muscle …
Upper limb movements are essential for daily living activities, which are fundamental to maintaining life, such as eating and manipulating objects. The development and implementation of human-machine interfaces have enabled significant advances in rehabilitation systems, facilitating the recovery of these movements in people with severe motor impairments. Data-driven methods have been use…
The relative role of spinal cord circuits in generation and control of muscle force is still unknown. Multiscale computational models of the neuromuscular system can help the understanding and definition of hypothesis on the functioning of the motor system. In the present study, the aim is to evaluate the role of two specific spinal cord circuits, namely: 1) the monosynaptic excitatory pa…
Decomposition of surface High-Density Electromyographic signals (HD EMG) into motor unitspike trains opens a non-invasive window to neural mechanisms underlying movement control. The signals produced by EMG decomposition have a scientific (to understand the physiology of motor system) and technological (to the control of human-machine interfaces, such as myoelectric prosthesis) relevance.…
Studies on the neurophysiological control of muscle force have used correlation analysis to understand the functional coupling between different structures of the nervous system during a motor task. The assumption behind these techniques is that the relations between the experimentally recorded variables [e.g., electroencephalogram (EEG), surface electromyogram (sEMG), motor unit activity…
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The performance of a given motor task is largely influenced by the neural drive to the muscles, which is provided by the spinal motor neurons (MNs). Therefore, the way these MNs integrate a plethora of neural signals from different sources is determinant to mold the motor output. One factor that is known to influence the force control is the degree of synchronism (or correlation) between …
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