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Chronic pain

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Barcoding Human Physical Activity to Assess Chronic Pain Conditions

Background: Modern theories define chronic pain as a multidimensional experience - the result of complex interplay between physiological and psychological factors with significant impact on patients' physical, emotional and social functioning. The developm ...

Public Library of Science2012

Tracking Motor Improvement at the Subtask Level During Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation of Stroke Patients

Silvestro Micera, Roberto Colombo

Background. Robot-aided neurorehabilitation can provide intensive, repetitious training to improve upper-limb function after stroke. To be more effective, motor therapy ought to be progressive and continuously challenge the patient's ability. Current robot ...

Sage Publications Inc2012

A Current-Mode Potentiostat for Multi-Target Detection Tested with Different Lactate Biosensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

Real-time and multi-target detection by wireless implantable devices is of increasing interest for chronic patients. In this work, electrode sharing is proposed to minimize the size of the implantable device when several three-electrode-based sensing sites ...

2012

Seeing and identifying with a virtual body decreases pain perception

Olaf Blanke, Bigna Lenggenhager, Roland von Känel

Pain and the conscious mind (or the self) are experienced in our body. Both are intimately linked to the subjective quality of conscious experience. Here, we used virtual reality technology and visuo-tactile conflicts in healthy subjects to test whether ex ...

2011

Assessment of Body Motion and Muscle Weakness

Raluca Lidia Ganea

Muscle weakness is a common symptom in elderly population and in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), causing impaired mobility. DMD is a devastating degenerative disease caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene, leading to the absence of th ...

EPFL2011

A robotic system to train activities of daily living in a virtual environment

In the past decade, several arm rehabilitation robots have been developed to assist neurological patients during therapy. Early devices were limited in their number of degrees of freedom and range of motion, whereas newer robots such as the ARMin robot can ...

2011

Compositions and use of sulfasalazine

Kai Johnsson, Christopher Chidley

The invention relates to compositions comprising sulfasalazine or sulfapyridine and products of a biosynthetic pathway that requires tetrahydrobiopterin. Such compositions are useful for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases or rheumatoid arthritis, ...

2011

Altered functional magnetic resonance imaging resting-state connectivity in periaqueductal gray networks in migraine

Nouchine Hadjikhani

Objective: The periaqueductal gray matter (PAG), a known modulator of somatic pain transmission, shows evidence of interictal functional and structural abnormalities in migraineurs, which may contribute to hyperexcitability along spinal and trigeminal noci ...

2011

Regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the chronic unpredictable stress rat model and the effects of chronic antidepressant treatment

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

Chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) is a widely used animal model of depression. The present study was undertaken to investigate behavioral, physiological and molecular effects of CUS and/or chronic antidepressant treatment (venlafaxine or imipramine) in th ...

Elsevier2010

Development of a medical instrument to induce and control hydrogel polymerization in-situ

Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Christophe Moser

Background - Nucleus pulposus degeneration is a very common musculo-skeletal pathology, which is in part responsible for low back pain, a pandemic medical problem. Artificial hydrogels are being investigated by research group around the world for the purpo ...

2010

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