Stephan L. Blanz

This study identifies and characterizes sources of artifact contaminating evoked compound action potentials (ECAPs) in epidural spinal cord recordings, highlighting challenges in distinguishing neural signals from artifacts in a swine model.

The paper quantifies fascicular splitting and merging in human cervical vagus nerves, finding events occur every ~560 microns and may explain clinical response variability.

This study shows that cervical vagus nerve stimulation increases cerebrospinal fluid penetration into the brain, suggesting potential clinical implications for CNS disorders.