Projects

PEPERONI Project (Post-doctorate)

 📆 2023-2025

« Portable and Personalized Neurofeedback for Stroke Rehabilitation » 

Objective: To develop a methodological and experimental framework for more portable neurofeedback (i.e. presenting a stimulus directly related to a person's ongoing brain activity) using a combination of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). The long-term aim is to evaluate the effect of such a combination on motor rehabilitation after stroke.

Empenn U1228 (Inria/Inserm/CNRS/UR1)
BRAIn Team (Lab-STICC UMR CNRS / IMT Atlantique)
HYBRID Team (Inria/IRISA) 

Rehabilitation Dept. CHU Rennes 

Head of the project: Pr. Pierre Maurel (Univ. Rennes)

Members of the project: link

The project : https://project.inria.fr/peperoni/

ReArm Project

 📆 2019-2025

« Recovering Arm Function in Chronic Post-stroke Patients Using Combined HD-tDCS and Virtual Reality Therapy » 

Objective: The study aims to determine the added value of combining high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) with a rehabilitation programme based on virtual reality therapy (VRT) to potentiate the effects on neuroplasticity and further improve the functional recovery of the arm in chronic stroke patients.

Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, CHU Montpellier

Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, CHU Nîmes

EuroMov DHM, Univ. Montpellier, IMT Mines Alès

Head of the project: Dr. Karima Bakhti (CHU Montpellier, Univ. Montpellier)

The project: link to clinical trials

NeuArm Project (Thesis project)

 📆 2019-2023

« Effects of healthy and pathological aging on brain activity during movement of the upper limb: prospectivess for post-stroke rehabilitation » 

Objective: this work aimed were to: i) develop a suitable methodology to evaluate the task-related brain activity coupled with kinematics of UL proximal movement and evaluate the brain and movement modifications ii) in healthy aging and iii) in post-stroke population.

EuroMov DHM, Univ. Montpellier, IMT Mines Alès

Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, CHU Montpellier

Thesis supervised by: Pr. Isabelle Laffont (CHU Montpellier, Univ. Montpellier), Pr. Stéphane Perrey (Univ. Montpellier) and Dr. Karima Bakhti (CHU Montpellier, Univ. Montpellier)

The manuscript: Link

Illustration - Thesis conclusions

STIM Project

 📆 2017-2023

« Effects of combined brain stimulation and motro imagery in sequential motor learning for healthy subjetcs » 

Objective: To evaluate the effects of mental practice combined with electrical brain stimulation on the learning of a finger sequence of the non-dominant hand in young adults and older people, on the different stages of motor learning.

LIBM, Univ. Lyon 1

HCL Lyon

CERMEP Lyon

Head of the project: Dr. Arnaud Saimpont (Univ. Lyon 1)

Publications: Young adults, older adults

Illustration (Métais et al., 2022)