Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society
Jan 9, 2014
The purpose of this study was to explore perceived difficulties and needs of older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and their attitudes toward an assistive robot to develop appropriate robot functionalities. Twenty subjects were recruited ...
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Dec 31, 2013
PURPOSE: An electromyography-driven robot system integrated with neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) was developed to investigate its effectiveness on post-stroke rehabilitation.
AIM: To investigate the effects of interacting with the companion robot, Paro, on blood pressure and heart rate of older people in a residential care facility.
Recently, there have been great interests for computer-aided diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its prodromal stage, mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Unlike the previous methods that considered simple low-level features such as gray matter tis...
A new non-pharmacological method of distraction was tested with 57 children during their annual flu vaccination. Given children's growing enthusiasm for technological devices, a humanoid robot was programmed to interact with them while a nurse admini...
Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
Jun 14, 2013
The aim of this study was to present a new training algorithm using artificial neural networks called multi-objective least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (MOBJ-LASSO) applied to the classification of dynamic gait patterns. The movement pa...
BACKGROUND: Cognitive deficits are a central feature of schizophrenia for which there are not any established pharmacological treatments. Antipsychotics are the mainstay of schizophrenia therapy but the effects of these and other psychotropic medicat...
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: Digital remote monitoring (DRM) captures service users' health-related data remotely using devices such as smartphones and wearables. Data can be analyzed using advanced statistical methods (eg, machine learning) and shared...
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: Given the available findings confirming accelerated brain aging in schizophrenia (SZ), we conducted a study aimed at verifying whether quantitative retinal morphological data enable age prediction and whether schizophrenia ...
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: Minor physical abnormalities (MPAs) are neurodevelopmental markers that can be traced to prenatal events and may be significant features of early-onset schizophrenia (EOS). Therefore, our study aimed to (1) find the primary...
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