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Apparatus and method for restoring voluntary control of locomotion in neuromotor impairments

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Joachim von Zitzewitz

It is disclosed an apparatus for restoring voluntary control of locomotion in a subject suffering from a neuromotor impairment comprising a multidirectional trunk support system and a device for epidural electrical stimulation. The robotic interface is cap ...

2016

CO2 capture in amine solutions: modelling and simulations with non-empirical methods

Wanda Andreoni, Fabio Pietrucci

Absorption in aqueous amine solutions is the most advanced technology for the capture of CO2, although suffering from drawbacks that do not allow exploitation on large scale. The search for optimum solvents has been pursued with empirical methods and has a ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Neuroprosthetic System Restoring Upper Limb Function Through Coordinated Electrical Stimulation

Andrea Biasiucci, Andrea Maesani

Neuroprosthetic device for restoring daily-life action movements of upper limbs in patients suffering from motor impairments. The neuroprosthetic device comprises several non-invasive electrodes adapted to be fixed on a patient body, in a way as to stimula ...

2016

Coating nanocarriers with hyaluronic acid facilitates intravitreal drug delivery for retinal gene therapy

Hendrik Georges Deschout

Retinal gene therapy could potentially affect the lives of millions of people suffering from blinding disorders. Yet, one of the major hurdles remains the delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids to the retinal target cells. Due to the different barriers that ...

Elsevier2015

An Implantable High-Voltage Cortical Stimulator for Post-stroke Rehabilitation Enhancement with High-Current Driving Capacity

Alexandre Schmid, Mustafa Kilic

This paper presents a high-voltage, high-current implantable cortical stimulation integrated circuit aiming at supporting rehabilitation of patients suffering from stroke. In this context, a large area of the motor cortex needs to be stimulated, requiring ...

2015

Stratified medicine for mental disorders

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

There is recognition that biomedical research into the causes of mental disorders and their treatment needs to adopt new approaches to research. Novel biomedical techniques have advanced our understanding of how the brain develops and is shaped by behaviou ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

On the dynamics of human locomotion and co-design of lower limb assistive devices

Jesse van den Kieboom

Recent developments in lower extremities wearable robotic devices for the assistance and rehabilitation of humans suffering from an impairment have led to several successes in the assistance of people who as a result regained a certain form of locomotive c ...

EPFL2014

Targeting receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B as a new therapy for bone metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer

Etienne Meylan

Purpose of review The review aims at comprehensively discussing our current knowledge on bone metastases incidence in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), their related complications as well as clinical impact in patients suffering from advanced disease. Re ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2013

Effect of a pathological scapular tilt after total shoulder arthroplasty

Dominique Pioletti, Alexandre Terrier, Alain Farron

Total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is an accepted and most successfully used treatment for different shoulder pathologies. Different risk factors for the failure of the prosthesis are known. A pathological scapular orientation, observed in elderly people or ...

Taylor & Francis2013

Microchannel electrode interfaces to assess bladder afferent activity

Stéphanie Lacour

By placing axons into polymeric microchannels hosting embedded electrodes the extracellular amplitude of action potentials is greatly increased, allowing for robust recording and noise suppression. We are developing such an electrode interface to record el ...

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