Upper extremity weakness in chronic stroke remains a problem not fully addressed by current therapies. Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) engaging the unaffected hemisphere are promising therapy that entering clinical application, but mechanism underlying recovery is well understood. We used resting state functional MRI to assess impact contralesionally driven EEG BCI had on motor system organiza...

Article history: Received: 4.7.2015. Received in revised form: 9.1.2016. Accepted: 29.1.2016. This paper presents a design of a distributed switched reluctance motor for an integrated motorfan system. Unlike a conventional compact motor structure, the rotor is distributed into the ends of the impeller blades. This distributed structure of motor makes more space for airflow to pass through so th...

The future of muscle weakness is frequently observed in cerebral ischemia, and a common complaint in human. So the animal test for the pathophysiology study and development of drug therapies is necessary. Various methods have been developed and widely used to examine muscle strength in motor performance. In animal model, most of these methods were observed by observers, and they converted the r...

Recent studies have shown that muscle alterations cannot totally explain peripheral muscle weakness in COPD. Cerebral abnormalities in COPD are well documented but have never been implicated in muscle torque production. The purpose of this study was to assess the neural correlates of quadriceps torque control in COPD patients. Fifteen patients (FEV1 54.1±3.6% predicted) and 15 age- and sex-matc...

UNLABELLED Spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) is autosomal recessive and one of the most common inherited lethal diseases in childhood. The spectrum of symptoms of SMA is continuous and varies from neonatal death to progressive symmetrical muscle weakness first appearing in adulthood. The disease is produced by degeneration of spinal motor neurons and can be described in three or more categories: SMA ...

BACKGROUND Intrathecal labor analgesia using new local anesthetics such as ropivacaine or levobupivacaine becomes more popular by virtues of their safety and decreased motor weakness. However, the analgesic efficacy of the clinically effective intrathecal doses of these new local anesthetics combined with fentanyl has yet to be determined. METHODS Sixty parturients who requested neuraxial ana...