James Fallon

Animal Models of Hearing Loss after Cochlear Implantation and Electrical Stimulation.

Lina AJ Reiss, Jonathon Kirk, Alexander D Claussen, James B Fallon

Journal article  |  2022  |  Hear Res

Many hearing-impaired patients may significantly benefit from the Hybrid or electro-acoustic stimulation (EAS) cochlear implant (C..

Effects of chronic implantation and long-term stimulation of a cochlear implant in the partial hearing cat model.

James B Fallon, Wolfram Dueck, Ella P Trang, Daniel Smyth, Andrew K Wise

Journal article  |  2022  |  Hear Res

The expansion of criteria for cochlear implantation has resulted in increasing numbers of cochlear implant subjects having some le..

Effects of an enhanced acoustic environment on residual hearing following chronic cochlear implantation and electrical stimulation in the partially deafened cat

Andrew K Wise, Patrick Atkinson, James B Fallon

Journal article  |  2022  |  HEARING RESEARCH

There is an increasing trend to provide cochlear implants for people with useful residual hearing, typically in the low frequency ..

Rapid electrophoretic deposition of biocompatible graphene coatings for high-performance recording neural electrodes

Miheng Dong, Harold A Coleman, Mary A Tonta, Zhiyuan Xiong, Dan Li, Sebastian Thomas, Minsu Liu, James B Fallon, Helena C Parkington, John S Forsythe

Journal article  |  2022  |  NANOSCALE

The electrical and biological interfacial properties of invasive electrodes have a significant impact on the performance and longe..

Blood glucose modulation and safety of efferent vagus nerve stimulation in a type 2 diabetic rat model

Sophie C Payne, Glenn Ward, James B Fallon, Tomoko Hyakumura, Johannes B Prins, Sofianos Andrikopoulos, Richard J MacIsaac, Joel Villalobos

Journal article  |  2022  |  PHYSIOLOGICAL REPORTS

Vagus nerve stimulation is emerging as a promising treatment for type 2 diabetes. Here, we evaluated the ability of stimulation of..

Abdominal vagus nerve stimulation alleviates collagen-induced arthritis in rats.

Sophie C Payne, Evange Romas, Tomoko Hyakumura, Fenella Muntz, James B Fallon

Journal article  |  2022  |  Front Neurosci

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, autoimmune inflammatory disease. Despite therapeutic advances, a significant proportion of..

Computational modelling of nerve stimulation and recording with peripheral visceral neural interfaces

Calvin D Eiber, Sophie C Payne, Natalia P Biscola, Leif A Havton, Janet R Keast, Peregrine B Osborne, James B Fallon

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING

Objective.Neuromodulation of visceral nerves is being intensively studied for treating a wide range of conditions, but effective t..

Viral-mediated transduction of auditory neurons with opsins for optical and hybrid activation

Rachael T Richardson, Alex C Thompson, Andrew K Wise, Elise A Ajay, Niliksha Gunewardene, Stephen J O'Leary, Paul R Stoddart, James B Fallon

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Optical stimulation is a paradigm-shifting approach to modulating neural activity that has the potential to overcome the issue of ..

Provision of interaural time difference information in chronic intracochlear electrical stimulation enhances neural sensitivity to these differences in neonatally deafened cats

Alexander C Thompson, Dexter RF Irvine, James B Fallon

Journal article  |  2021  |  HEARING RESEARCH

Although performance with bilateral cochlear implants is superior to that with a unilateral implant, bilateral implantees have poo..

Platinum dissolution and tissue response following long-term electrical stimulation at high charge densities

Robert K Shepherd, Paul M Carter, Ashley N Dalrymple, Ya Lang Enke, Andrew K Wise, Trung Nguyen, James Firth, Alex Thompson, James B Fallon

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING

Objective. Established guidelines for safe levels of electrical stimulation for neural prostheses are based on a limited range of ..