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  1. Individuals with acquired brain injuries (ABI) are in need of neurorehabilitation and neurorepair. Virtual anatomical interactivity (VAI) presents a digital game-like format in which ABI survivors with upper l...

    Authors: Jiří Keller, Ivana Štětkářová, Vince Macri, Simone Kühn, Jakub Pětioký, Stefano Gualeni, С. Douglas Simmons, Sajay Arthanat and Paul Zilber

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:127

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  2. Therapeutic management of the upper extremity (UE) function of people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) requires sensitive and objective assessment. Therefore, we aimed to measure physiologic UE function of S...

    Authors: Mariska M. H. P. Janssen, Laura H. C. Peeters and Imelda J. M. de Groot

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:126

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  3. Parkinson’s disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) are movement disorders that can have similar clinical characteristics including tremor and gait difficulty. These disorders can be misdiagnosed leading to del...

    Authors: Sanghee Moon, Hyun-Je Song, Vibhash D. Sharma, Kelly E. Lyons, Rajesh Pahwa, Abiodun E. Akinwuntan and Hannes Devos

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:125

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  4. Persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) may experience both psychological and physiological benefits from robotic locomotor exoskeleton use, and knowledgeable users may have valuable perspectives to inform futur...

    Authors: Dominique Kinnett-Hopkins, Chaithanya K. Mummidisetty, Linda Ehrlich-Jones, Deborah Crown, Rachel A. Bond, Marc H. Applebaum, Arun Jayaraman, Catherine Furbish, Gail Forrest, Edelle Field-Fote and Allen W. Heinemann

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:124

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  5. Wearable powered exoskeletons are a new and emerging technology developed to provide sensory-guided motorized lower limb assistance enabling intensive task specific locomotor training utilizing typical lower l...

    Authors: Julie Vaughan-Graham, Dina Brooks, Lowell Rose, Goldie Nejat, Jose Pons and Kara Patterson

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:123

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  6. Impaired naming is a ubiquitous symptom in all types of aphasia, which often adversely impacts independence, quality of life, and recovery of affected individuals. Previous research has demonstrated that namin...

    Authors: Klaudia Grechuta, Belén Rubio Ballester, Rosa Espín Munné, Teresa Usabiaga Bernal, Begoña Molina Hervás, Bettina Mohr, Friedemann Pulvermüller, Rosa Maria San Segundo and Paul F. M. J. Verschure

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:122

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  7. Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) has been utilized for many years in cerebral palsy (CP) with limited success despite its inherent potential for improving muscle size and/or strength, inhibiting or ...

    Authors: Blynn L. Shideler, Thomas C. Bulea, Ji Chen, Christopher J. Stanley, Andrew J. Gravunder and Diane L. Damiano

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:121

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  8. Human sensorimotor control of dexterous manipulation relies on afferent sensory signals. Explicit tactile feedback is generally not available to prosthetic hand users, who have to rely on incidental informatio...

    Authors: Leonardo Cappello, Waleed Alghilan, Massimiliano Gabardi, Daniele Leonardis, Michele Barsotti, Antonio Frisoli and Christian Cipriani

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:120

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  9. Asymmetric gait post-stroke is associated with decreased mobility, yet individuals with chronic stroke often self-select an asymmetric gait despite being capable of walking more symmetrically. The purpose of t...

    Authors: Thu M. Nguyen, Rachel W. Jackson, Yashar Aucie, Digna de Kam, Steven H. Collins and Gelsy Torres-Oviedo

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:119

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  10. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides critical information about the neurophysiology of the central nervous systems (CNS), posing clinical significance for the understanding of neuropathologies...

    Authors: Hyungeun Song, Erica Israel, Shriya Srinivasan and Hugh Herr

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:118

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  11. Stiff-Knee gait (SKG) after stroke is often accompanied by decreased knee flexion angle during the swing phase. The decreased knee flexion has been hypothesized to originate from excessive quadriceps activatio...

    Authors: Tunc Akbas, Kyoungsoon Kim, Kathleen Doyle, Kathleen Manella, Robert Lee, Patrick Spicer, Maria Knikou and James Sulzer

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:117

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  12. State-of-the-art bionic hands incorporate hi-tech devices which try to overcome limitations of conventional single grip systems. Unfortunately, their complexity often limits mechanical robustness and intuitive...

    Authors: Cristina Piazza, Ann M. Simon, Kristi L. Turner, Laura A. Miller, Manuel G. Catalano, Antonio Bicchi and Levi J. Hargrove

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:116

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  13. Hand function is often impaired after stroke, strongly affecting the ability to perform daily activities. Upper limb robotic devices have been developed to complement rehabilitation therapy offered to persons ...

    Authors: Raffaele Ranzani, Olivier Lambercy, Jean-Claude Metzger, Antonella Califfi, Stefania Regazzi, Daria Dinacci, Claudio Petrillo, Paolo Rossi, Fabio M. Conti and Roger Gassert

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:115

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  14. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a leading cause of fatality and disability worldwide, partly due to the occurrence of secondary injury and late interventions. Correct diagnosis and timely monitoring ensure eff...

    Authors: Momen K. Tageldeen, Sally A. N. Gowers, Chi L. Leong, Martyn G. Boutelle and Emmanuel M. Drakakis

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:114

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  15. Regular body-powered (BP) prosthesis training facilitates the acquisition of skills through repeated practice but requires adequate time and motivation. Therefore, auxiliary tools such as indirect training may...

    Authors: Manabu Yoshimura, Hiroshi Kurumadani, Junya Hirata, Hiroshi Osaka, Katsutoshi Senoo, Shota Date, Akio Ueda, Yosuke Ishii, Seiji Kinoshita, Kozo Hanayama and Toru Sunagawa

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:113

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  16. We designed a novel ankle foot orthosis (AFO), namely, ideal training AFO (IT-AFO), with motion feedback on the hemiparetic lower limb to improve ambulation in individuals with stroke-related hemiplegia. We, t...

    Authors: Chih-Chao Hsu, Yin-Kai Huang, Jiunn-Horng Kang, Yi-Feng Ko, Chia-Wei Liu, Fu-Shan Jaw and Shih-Ching Chen

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:112

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  17. Stroke survivors experience chronic gait impairments, so rehabilitation has focused on restoring ambulatory capacity. High-intensity speed-based treadmill training (HISTT) is one form of walking rehabilitation...

    Authors: Sangeetha Madhavan, Brice T. Cleland, Anjali Sivaramakrishnan, Sally Freels, Hyosok Lim, Fernando D. Testai and Daniel M. Corcos

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:111

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  18. Recent studies have shown that neural stimulation can be used to provide artificial sensory feedback to amputees eliciting sensations referred on the amputated hand. The temporal properties of the neural stimu...

    Authors: Giacomo Valle, Ivo Strauss, Edoardo D’Anna, Giuseppe Granata, Riccardo Di Iorio, Thomas Stieglitz, Paolo Maria Rossini, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini and Silvestro Micera

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:110

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  19. Spasticity after lesions of central motor pathways may be disabling and there is a need for new, cost-effective treatment methods. One novel approach is offered by the electro-dress Mollii®, primarily designed...

    Authors: Susanne Palmcrantz, Gaia Valentina Pennati, Hanna Bergling and Jörgen Borg

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:109

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  20. Body weight support systems with three or more degrees of freedom (3-DoF) are permissive and safe environments that provide unloading and allow unrestricted movement in any direction. This enables training of ...

    Authors: M. Bannwart, S. L. Bayer, N. König Ignasiak, M. Bolliger, G. Rauter and C. A. Easthope

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:108

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  21. Experimental designs using surrogate gait-like movements, such as in functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cannot fully capture the cortical activation associated with overground gait. Overground gait i...

    Authors: Sue Peters, Shannon B. Lim, Dennis R. Louie, Chieh-ling Yang and Janice J. Eng

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:107

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  22. Despite numerous trials investigating robot-assisted therapy (RT) effects on upper-extremity (UE) function after stroke, few have explored the relationship between three-dimensional (3D) reach-to-target kinema...

    Authors: Catherine Adans-Dester, Susan E. Fasoli, Eric Fabara, Nicolas Menard, Annie B. Fox, Giacomo Severini and Paolo Bonato

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:106

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  23. Restoration of step length symmetry is a common rehabilitation goal after stroke. Persons post-stroke often retain the ability to walk with symmetric step lengths (“symmetric steps”); however, the resulting wa...

    Authors: Purnima Padmanabhan, Keerthana Sreekanth Rao, Shivam Gulhar, Kendra M. Cherry-Allen, Kristan A. Leech and Ryan T. Roemmich

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:105

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  25. Robotic technologies for neurological assessment provide sensitive, objective measures of behavioural impairments associated with injuries or disease such as stroke. Previous robotic tasks to assess propriocep...

    Authors: Catherine R. Lowrey, Benett Blazevski, Jean-Luc Marnet, Helen Bretzke, Sean P. Dukelow and Stephen H. Scott

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:103

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  26. Spasticity is a key motor impairment that affects many hemispheric stroke survivors. Intramuscular botulinum toxin (BT) injections are used widely to clinically manage spasticity-related symptoms in stroke sur...

    Authors: S. Chandra, B. Afsharipour, W. Z. Rymer and N. L. Suresh

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:102

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  27. The timing of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with neurorehabilitation interventions may affect its modulatory effects. Motor function has been reported to be modulated by the timing of tDCS; ho...

    Authors: Wan-wen Liao, Wei-chi Chiang, Keh-chung Lin, Ching-yi Wu, Chien-ting Liu, Yu-wei Hsieh, Yun-chung Lin and Chia-ling Chen

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:101

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  28. Locomotor transitions between different ambulatory tasks are essential activities of daily life. During these transitions, biomechanics are affected by various factors such as anticipation, movement direction,...

    Authors: Wentao Li, Nathaniel T. Pickle and Nicholas P. Fey

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:100

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  29. Modern lower limb prostheses have the capability to replace missing body parts and improve the patients’ quality of life. However, missing environmental information often makes a seamless adaptation to transit...

    Authors: Michael Tschiedel, Michael Friedrich Russold and Eugenijus Kaniusas

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:99

    Content type: Review

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  30. In the last decades, several powered ankle-foot orthoses have been developed to assist the ankle joint of their users during walking. Recent studies have shown that the effects of the assistance provided by po...

    Authors: Marta Moltedo, Tomislav Baček, Ben Serrien, Kevin Langlois, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber and Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:98

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  31. Parkinsonism is common in people with dementia, and is associated with neurodegenerative and vascular changes in the brain, or with exposure to antipsychotic or other dopamine antagonist medications. The detec...

    Authors: Andrea Sabo, Sina Mehdizadeh, Kimberley-Dale Ng, Andrea Iaboni and Babak Taati

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:97

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  32. Performing activities of daily living depends, among other factors, on awareness of the position and movements of limbs. Neural injuries, such as stroke, might negatively affect such an awareness and, conseque...

    Authors: Bulmaro A. Valdés, Mahta Khoshnam, Jason L. Neva and Carlo Menon

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:96

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  33. Peripheral nerve stimulation with implanted nerve cuff electrodes can restore standing, stepping and other functions to individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). We performed the first study to evaluate the c...

    Authors: Max J. Freeberg, Gilles C. J. Pinault, Dustin J. Tyler, Ronald J. Triolo and Rahila Ansari

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:95

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  34. Activities of daily living frequently require children to make rapid decisions and execute desired motor actions while inhibiting unwanted actions. Children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy due to perinatal str...

    Authors: Rachel L. Hawe, Andrea M. Kuczynski, Adam Kirton and Sean P. Dukelow

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:94

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  35. Understanding how prostheses are used in everyday life is central to the design, provision and evaluation of prosthetic devices and associated services. This paper reviews the scientific literature on methodol...

    Authors: Alix Chadwell, Laura Diment, M. Micó-Amigo, Dafne Z. Morgado Ramírez, Alex Dickinson, Malcolm Granat, Laurence Kenney, Sisary Kheng, Mohammad Sobuh, Robert Ssekitoleko and Peter Worsley

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:93

    Content type: Review

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  36. LSVT-BIG® is an intensively delivered, amplitude-oriented exercise therapy reported to improve mobility in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, questions remain surrounding the efficacy of LSVT-...

    Authors: Matthew W. Flood, Ben P. F. O’Callaghan, Paul Diamond, Jérémy Liegey, Graham Hughes and Madeleine M. Lowery

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:92

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  37. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a customized interactive video game-based (IVGB) training on balance in older adults with mild-to-moderate Parkinson’s disease (PD).

    Authors: Rey-Yue Yuan, Shih-Ching Chen, Chih-Wei Peng, Yen-Nung Lin, Yu-Tai Chang and Chien-Hung Lai

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:91

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  38. Dexterity and activities of daily living limitations on the upper limb (UL) represent one of the most common problems in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effecti...

    Authors: Alicia Cuesta-Gómez, Patricia Sánchez-Herrera-Baeza, Edwin Daniel Oña-Simbaña, Alicia Martínez-Medina, Carmen Ortiz-Comino, Carlos Balaguer-Bernaldo-de-Quirós, Alberto Jardón-Huete and Roberto Cano-de-la-Cuerda

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:90

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  39. Current clinical assessments measure selective voluntary motor control (SVMC) on an ordinal scale. We introduce a playful, interval-scaled method to assess SVMC in children with brain lesions and evaluate its ...

    Authors: Jeffrey W. Keller, Annina Fahr, Julia Balzer, Jan Lieber and Hubertus J. A. van Hedel

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:89

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  40. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is an emerging approach for improving aphasia after stroke. However, it remains unclear what type of tDCS stimulation is most effective. Our aim was to give an ov...

    Authors: Bernhard Elsner, Joachim Kugler and Jan Mehrholz

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:88

    Content type: Review

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  41. Recently, rehabilitation robots are expected to improve the gait of cerebral palsy (CP) children. However, only few previous studies have reported the kinematic and kinetic changes by using wearable exoskeleto...

    Authors: Shihomi Kawasaki, Koji Ohata, Takeshi Yoshida, Atsushi Yokoyama and Shigehito Yamada

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:87

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  42. Traditional clinical assessments are used extensively in neurology; however, they can be coarse, which can also make them insensitive to change. Kinarm is a robotic assessment system that has been used for pre...

    Authors: Leif E. R. Simmatis, Spencer Early, Kimberly D. Moore, Simone Appaqaq and Stephen H. Scott

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:86

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  43. Generating appropriate balancing reactions in response to unexpected loss of balance during walking is important to prevent falls. The purpose of this study was to assess dynamic balancing responses following ...

    Authors: Matjaž Zadravec, Andrej Olenšek, Marko Rudolf, Nataša Bizovičar, Nika Goljar and Zlatko Matjačić

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:85

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  44. People use various strategies to maintain balance, such as taking a reactive step or rotating the upper body. To gain insight in human balance control, it is useful to know what makes people switch from one st...

    Authors: Amber R. Emmens, Edwin H. F. van Asseldonk, Vera Prinsen and Herman van der Kooij

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:84

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  45. The aim of the present study was to to assess the relative effectiveness of the various types of electromechanical-assisted arm devices and approaches after stroke.

    Authors: Jan Mehrholz, Alex Pollock, Marcus Pohl, Joachim Kugler and Bernhard Elsner

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:83

    Content type: Review

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  46. The anterior-posterior ground reaction force (AP-GRF) and propulsion and braking point metrics derived from the AP-GRF time series are indicators of locomotor function across healthy and neurological diagnosti...

    Authors: Dheepak Arumukhom Revi, Andre M. Alvarez, Conor J. Walsh, Stefano M.M. De Rossi and Louis N. Awad

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:82

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  47. Gait training with partial body weight support (BWS) has become an established rehabilitation technique. Besides passive unloading mechanisms such as springs or counterweights, also active systems that allow r...

    Authors: Salil Apte, Michiel Plooij and Heike Vallery

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:81

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  48. Atypical walking in the months and years after stroke constrain community reintegration and reduce mobility, health, and quality of life. The ReWalk ReStore™ is a soft robotic exosuit designed to assist the pr...

    Authors: Louis N. Awad, Alberto Esquenazi, Gerard E. Francisco, Karen J. Nolan and Arun Jayaraman

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:80

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  49. Previous studies have assessed the effects of perturbation training on balance after stroke. However, the perturbations were either applied while standing or were small in amplitude during gait, which is not r...

    Authors: Vahid Esmaeili, Andréanne Juneau, Joseph-Omer Dyer, Anouk Lamontagne, Dahlia Kairy, Laurent Bouyer and Cyril Duclos

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:79

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  50. Paper-and-pencil tasks are still widely used for cognitive rehabilitation despite the proliferation of new computer-based methods, like VR-based simulations of ADL’s. Studies have established construct validit...

    Authors: Ana Lúcia Faria, Maria Salomé Pinho and Sergi Bermúdez i Badia

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:78

    Content type: Research

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