Rehabilitation of motor function has been linked to motor learning that occurs during repetitive, frequent, and intensive training. Neuro-rehabilitation is based on the assumption that motor learning principles can be applied to motor recovery after injury, and that training can lead to permanent improvements in motor function in patients with motor deficits. The emergent research field of Reha...

a Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan b Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan c Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan d Institute of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University...

The problems of producing a software system to assist in the rehabilitation of people who have suffered serious traumatic brain injuries are described. The challenges of ensuring a high level of usability by incorporating the best of graphic and HCI design into a well established software engineering methodology are discussed. The resulting suite of programs is now in use at a rehabilitation ho...

heart failure is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. end stage disease often requires heart transplantation, which is hampered by donor organ shortage. tissue engineering represents a promising alternative approach for cardiac repair. for the generation of artificial heart muscle tissue several cell types, scaffold materials and bioreactor designs are under investigation. in this revi...

1,2,3 Sylvain Brochard, 1 Bhushan Borotikar, 1,4 Joseph D Mozingo, 1,5 Katharine Alter and 1 Frances T Sheehan 1 Rehabilitation medicine department, Clinical center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA, 2 Rehabilitation medicine department, University Hospital of Brest, France, 3 LaTIM INSERM U1101, Brest, France, 4 University of Rochester Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, USA, 3 Mt Washington...

Michael J. Berger1*, Dean Inglis2, Charles A. McKenzie3, Kendra L. Derry4, Aashish Goela5, and Timothy J. Doherty4,6 1Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of British Columbia, Canada 2Department of Civil Engineering, McMaster University, Canada 3Department of Medical Biophysics and Robarts Research Institute, Western University, Canada 4Schulich School of Medicine and Dent...

This paper shows how Genetic Programming can be applied to the task of evolving the neural oscillators that produce the coordinated movements of human-like bipedal locomotion. In the research of biomechanical engineering, robotics and neurophysiology, to clarify the mechanism of human bipedal walking is of major interest. It serves as a basis of developing several applications such as rehabilit...

Computational systems to identify objects represented in image sequences and tracking their motion in a fully automatic manner, enabling a detailed analysis of the involved motion and its simulation are extremely relevant in several fields of our society. In particular, the analysis and simulation of the human motion has a wide spectrum of relevant applications with a manifest social and econom...