Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Nov 30, 2020
One of the primary ways we interact with the world is using our hands. In macaques, the circuit spanning the anterior intraparietal area, the hand area of the ventral premotor cortex, and the primary motor cortex is necessary for transforming visual ...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Nov 24, 2020
BACKGROUND: Our previous work showed that speed is linked to the ability to recover in chronic stroke survivors. Participants moving faster on the first day of a 3-week study had greater improvements on the Wolf Motor Function Test.
Journal of healthcare engineering
Oct 27, 2020
BACKGROUND: More than two-thirds of stroke patients have arm motor impairments and function deficits on hospital admission, leading to diminished quality of life and reduced social participation. Robot-assisted training (RAT) is a promising rehabilit...
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Oct 3, 2020
Avoidance behavior is a key contributor to the transition from acute pain to chronic pain disability. Yet, there has been a lack of ecologically valid paradigms to experimentally investigate pain-related avoidance. To fill this gap, we developed a pa...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Jul 14, 2020
BACKGROUND: Performing activities of daily living depends, among other factors, on awareness of the position and movements of limbs. Neural injuries, such as stroke, might negatively affect such an awareness and, consequently, lead to degrading the q...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jun 5, 2020
Continual learning, a widespread ability in people and animals, aims to learn and acquire new knowledge and skills continuously. Catastrophic forgetting usually occurs in continual learning when an agent attempts to learn different tasks sequentially...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 2, 2020
In this paper, a customizable wearable 3D-printed bionic arm is designed, fabricated, and optimized for a right arm amputee. An experimental test has been conducted for the user, where control of the artificial bionic hand is accomplished successfull...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 29, 2020
To extend the choice of inertial motion-tracking systems freely available to researchers and educators, this paper presents an alternative open-source design of a wearable 7-DOF wireless human arm motion-tracking system. Unlike traditional inertial m...
Biomedical engineering online
May 6, 2020
BACKGROUND: Our group developed a rehabilitation robot to assist with repetitive, active reaching movement of a paretic upper extremity. The robot is equipped with a servo motor-controlled arm-weight support and works in conjunction with neuromuscula...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Apr 24, 2020
In view of the urgent need for intelligent rehabilitation equipment for some disabled people, an intelligent, upper limb rehabilitation training robot is designed by applying the theories of artificial intelligence, information, control, human-machin...