Two of the listed papers are of particular note. Smart Dura, a functional artificial dura for multi-modal neural recording and modulation, appears in Microsystems & Nanoengineering (2026, DOI:10.1038/s41378-026-01166-8). A second paper, on study design considerations in clinical trials testing transcutaneous stimulation for spinal cord injury, was published in Spinal Cord (2026, DOI:10.1038/s41393-026-01190-5).
The remaining entries include a large-scale optogenetic neurophysiology platform for improving accessibility in non-human primate behavioral experiments (Nature Communications), a computational framework to predict and shape human-machine interactions in closed-loop, co-adaptive neural interfaces (Nature Machine Intelligence), an analysis of the spatiotemporal structure of neural activity in motor cortex during reaching (Journal of Neuroscience), a pilot clinical trial protocol on non-invasive spinal cord stimulation and autonomic function in individuals with subacute spinal cord injury (PLoS One), two surveys on predictive coding, one covering spiking neural networks (Neural Networks), and a neuroethics paper (Neuroethics).