AIMC Topic: Quality of Life

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Quantification of task-dependent cortical activation evoked by robotic continuous wrist joint manipulation in chronic hemiparetic stroke.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Cortical damage after stroke can drastically impair sensory and motor function of the upper limb, affecting the execution of activities of daily living and quality of life. Motor impairment after stroke has been thoroughly studied, howeve...

Robot-assisted single-site compared with laparoscopic single-incision cholecystectomy for benign gallbladder disease: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

BMC surgery
BACKGROUND: Recent advances in robotic technology suggest that the utilization of the da Vinci Single-Site™ platform for cholecystectomy is safe, feasible and results in a shorter learning curve compared to conventional single-incision laparoscopic c...

A natural language-based presentation of cognitive stimulation to people with dementia in assistive technology: A pilot study.

Informatics for health & social care
Currently, an estimated 36 million people worldwide are affected by Alzheimer's disease or related dementias. In the absence of a cure, non-pharmacological interventions, such as cognitive stimulation, which slow down the rate of deterioration can be...

Tackling Missing Data in Community Health Studies Using Additive LS-SVM Classifier.

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Missing data is a common issue in community health and epidemiological studies. Direct removal of samples with missing data can lead to reduced sample size and information bias, which deteriorates the significance of the results. While data imputatio...

Corneal power evaluation after myopic corneal refractive surgery using artificial neural networks.

Biomedical engineering online
BACKGROUND: Efficacy and high availability of surgery techniques for refractive defect correction increase the number of patients who undergo to this type of surgery. Regardless of that, with increasing age, more and more patients must undergo catara...

Robot-assisted and conventional therapies produce distinct rehabilitative trends in stroke survivors.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Comparing the efficacy of alternative therapeutic strategies for the rehabilitation of motor function in chronically impaired individuals is often inconclusive. For example, a recent randomized clinical trial (RCT) compared robot-assisted...

Change in quality of life in older people with dementia participating in Paro-activity: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Journal of advanced nursing
AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate effects of robot-assisted group activity with Paro on quality of life in older people with dementia.