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mano: A Wearable Hand Exoskeleton for Activities of Daily Living and Neurorehabilitation

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Luca Randazzo, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Serafeim Perdikis

Hand sensorimotor impairments are among the most common consequences of injuries affecting the central and peripheral nervous systems, leading to a drastic reduction in the quality of life for affected individuals. Combining wearable robotic exoskeletons a ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2018

Brain-Computer Interface meets ROS: A robotic approach to mentally drive telepresence robots

Luca Tonin, Andrea Cimolato

This paper shows and evaluates a novel approach to integrate a non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) with the Robot Operating System (ROS) to mentally drive a telepresence robot. Controlling a mobile device by using human brain signals might improve ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

The metabolite BH4 controls T cell proliferation in autoimmunity and cancer

Kai Johnsson

Genetic regulators and environmental stimuli modulate T cell activation in autoimmunity and cancer. The enzyme co-factor tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is involved in the production of monoamine neurotransmitters, the generation of nitric oxide, and pain(1,2). ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2018

Fascicular nerve stimulation and recording using a novel double-aisle regenerative electrode

Silvestro Micera

Objective. As artificial prostheses become more refined, they are most often used as a therapeutic option for hand amputation. By contrast to extra- or intraneural interfaces, regenerative nerve electrodes are designed to enable electrical interfaces with ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Workshops of the Sixth International Brain–Computer Interface Meeting: brain–computer interfaces past, present, and future

Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Anton Nijholt

The Sixth International Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Meeting was held May 30-June 3rd, 2016 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, United States. The conference included 28 workshops covering topics in BCI and brain-machine inter ...

2017

A Novel Recessive RPGRIP1 Mutation Causing Leber Congenital Amaurosis

Background: Leber congenital amaurosis is an early-onset childhood severe retinal dystrophy, of significant genetic heterogeneity. RPGRIP1 is ubiquitously expressed, but mutations in RPGRIP1 lead to a retina-restricted phenotype, such as Leber congenital a ...

Georg Thieme Verlag Kg2016

Improving activity recognition using a wearable barometric pressure sensor in mobility-impaired stroke patients

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Arash Arami, Fabien Massé

Background Stroke survivors often suffer from mobility deficits. Current clinical evaluation methods, including questionnaires and motor function tests, cannot provide an objective measure of the patients’ mobility in daily life. Physical activity performa ...

BioMed Central2015

Towards non-invasive hybrid brain-computer interfaces: Framework, practice, clinical application and beyond

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb

In their early days, BCIs were only considered as control channel for end users with severe motor impairments such as people in the locked-in state. But, thanks to the multidisciplinary progress achieved over the last decade, the range of BCI applications ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Workshops of the Fifth International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting: Defining the Future

Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Robert Leeb

The Fifth International Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Meeting met on 3rd June 2013 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, USA. The conference included 19 workshops covering topics in brain-computer interface and brain-machine inter ...

2014

Unraveling dynamics of human physical activity patterns in chronic pain conditions

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu

Chronic pain is a complex disabling experience that negatively affects the cognitive, affective and physical functions as well as behavior. Although the interaction between chronic pain and physical functioning is a well-accepted paradigm in clinical resea ...

2013

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