A paralyzed hand with some power in the wrist can he made functional by stabilizing the proximal and distal interphalangeal joints of the index and long fingers and the joints of the thumb in the position of function so that the fingers, when flexed at their metacarpophalangeal joints, meet the abducted and partially opposed thumb. The fingers, of course, must be

Skin tumors occurring on the scleroderma fingers are rarely seen. Swollen fingers are hallmarks of systemic sclerosis, and mucin deposition in the lesional skin is a constant feature in systemic sclerosis. Here we describe a case of cutaneous myxoid cyst on the flexor aspect of the sclerotic fingers in a patient with severe diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis. Cutaneous myxoid cyst is a relati...

To achieve various manipulation tasks by robot fingers, we have to use both position control and force control appropriately. In this paper, we propose a method to determine such control modes of robot fingers in graspless manipulation. Using the method, we can assign a positionor force-control mode to each robot finger so that the maximum manipulation stability will be achieved without excessi...

Swan neck deformity is a hyperextension of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints and flexion of the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joints. Claw hand is a hyperextension of the metacarpal joints and flexion of the PIP joints, accompanied by reduced motor strength. A 23-year-old female, who was released from leprosy treatment, presented with a bend of the second to fifth fingers of both hands. ...

Normally, when we explore or manipulate objects more than one of our fingers will come into contact with and move over a surface. Movement of the object or our fingers may give rise to different motion at each finger yet we retain a sense of a single object. We have investigated this by examining how correlated motion across the fingers may help detection of a kinaesthetic stimulus. We have fou...

Perceptual learning can improve our sensory abilities. Understanding its underlying mechanisms, in particular, when perceptual learning generalizes, has become a focus of research and controversy. Specifically, there is little consensus regarding the extent to which tactile perceptual learning generalizes across fingers. We measured tactile orientation discrimination abilities on 4 fingers (ind...

When one finger changes its force, other fingers of the hand can show unintended force changes in the same direction (enslaving) and in the opposite direction (error compensation). We tested a hypothesis that externally imposed changes in finger force predominantly lead to error compensation effects in other fingers thus stabilizing the total force. A novel device, the "inverse piano", was used...

Chromosomal translocations involving the mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) gene are associated with aggressive acute lymphoid and myeloid leukemias. These translocations are restricted to an 8.3-kb breakpoint region resulting in fusion of amino terminal MLL sequences in frame to 1 of more than 60 different translocation partners. The translocations consistently delete the plant homeodomain (PHD) fin...