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  1. Traditionally synchronous access strategies require users to comply with one or more time constraints in order to communicate intent with a binary human-machine interface (e.g., mechanical, gestural or neural ...

    Authors: Jorge Silva, Jorge Torres-Solis, Tom Chau and Alex Mihailidis
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:24
  2. Isometric force measurements in the lower extremity are widely used in rehabilitation of subjects with neurological movement disorders (NMD) because walking ability has been shown to be related to muscle stren...

    Authors: Marc Bolliger, Raphael Banz, Volker Dietz and Lars Lünenburger
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:23
  3. Aging leads to increases in gait variability which may explain the large incidence of falls in the elderly. Body weight support training may be utilized to improve gait in the elderly and minimize falls. Howev...

    Authors: Anastasia Kyvelidou, Max J Kurz, Julie L Ehlers and Nicholas Stergiou
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:22
  4. The functional outcome after stroke is improved by more intensive or sustained therapy. When the affected hand has no functional movement, therapy is mainly passive movements. A novel device for repeating cont...

    Authors: Stefan Hesse, H Kuhlmann, J Wilk, C Tomelleri and Stephen GB Kirker
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:21
  5. It has been suggested that there is a dose-response relationship between the amount of therapy and functional recovery in post-acute rehabilitation care. To this day, only the total time of therapy has been in...

    Authors: Stéphane Choquette, Mathieu Hamel and Patrick Boissy
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:20
  6. It is well documented that individuals with chronic stroke often exhibit considerable gait impairments that significantly impact their quality of life. While stroke subjects often walk asymmetrically, we sough...

    Authors: Nathan D Neckel, Natalie Blonien, Diane Nichols and Joseph Hidler
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:19
  7. Spasticity is a common impairment that follows stroke, and it results typically in functional loss. For this reason, accurate quantification of spasticity has both diagnostic and therapeutic significance. The ...

    Authors: Laila Alibiglou, William Z Rymer, Richard L Harvey and Mehdi M Mirbagheri
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:18
  8. The laryngeal chemoreflex exists in infants as a primary sensory mechanism for defending the airway from the aspiration of liquids. Previous studies have hypothesized that prolonged apnea associated with this ...

    Authors: Andrei Dragomir, Yasemin Akay, Aidan K Curran and Metin Akay
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:17
  9. Gait abnormalities have been reported in individuals with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) however no studies exist to date investigating the kinematics of individuals with CFS in over-ground gait. The aim of th...

    Authors: Lorna Paul, Danny Rafferty, Leslie Wood and William Maclaren
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:16
  10. It has been shown that intense training can significantly improve post-stroke upper-limb functionality. However, opportunities for stroke survivors to practice rehabilitation exercises can be limited because o...

    Authors: Paul Lam, Debbie Hebert, Jennifer Boger, Hervé Lacheray, Don Gardner, Jacob Apkarian and Alex Mihailidis
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:15
  11. The purpose of this study was to investigate the biomechanics of the hip, knee and ankle during a progressive resistance cycling protocol in an effort to detect and measure the presence of muscle fatigue. It w...

    Authors: Stephenie A Haapala, Pouran D Faghri and Douglas J Adams
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:14
  12. People who suffer from low back pain (LBP) exhibit an abnormal gait pattern, characterized by shorter stride length, greater step width, and an impaired thorax-pelvis coordination which may undermine functiona...

    Authors: Claudine JC Lamoth, John F Stins, Menno Pont, Frederick Kerckhoff and Peter J Beek
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:13
  13. People exhibit increased difficulty balancing when they perform secondary attention-distracting tasks while walking. However, a previous study by Grabiner and Troy (J. Neuroengineering Rehabil., 2005) found that ...

    Authors: Jonathan B Dingwell, Roland T Robb, Karen L Troy and Mark D Grabiner
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:12
  14. Speaker detection is an important component of many human-computer interaction applications, like for example, multimedia indexing, or ambient intelligent systems. This work addresses the problem of detecting ...

    Authors: Patricia Besson and Murat Kunt
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:11
  15. Two different Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) were developed, both based on electro-biological signals. One is based on the EMG signal and the other is based on the EEG signal. Two major features of such inter...

    Authors: Andre Ferreira, Wanderley C Celeste, Fernando A Cheein, Teodiano F Bastos-Filho, Mario Sarcinelli-Filho and Ricardo Carelli
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:10
  16. A cost effective tool for the measurement of trunk reposition sense is needed clinically. This study evaluates the reliability and validity of a new clinical spine reposition sense device.

    Authors: Cheryl M Petersen, Chris L Zimmermann, Steven Cope, Mary Ellen Bulow and Erinn Ewers-Panveno
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:9
  17. Evaluation of how Motor Imagery and conventional therapy (physiotherapy or occupational therapy) compare to conventional therapy only in their effects on clinically relevant outcomes during rehabilitation of p...

    Authors: Andrea Zimmermann-Schlatter, Corina Schuster, Milo A Puhan, Ewa Siekierka and Johann Steurer
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:8
  18. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been used to improve function in individuals with hemiparesis following stroke. An ideal functional electrical stimulation (FES) system needs an accurate mathematica...

    Authors: Trisha M Kesar, Jun Ding, Anthony S Wexler, Ramu Perumal, Ryan Maladen and Stuart A Binder-Macleod
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:7
  19. Despite intensive investigation, the origins of the neuromuscular abnormalities associated with spasticity are not well understood. In particular, the mechanical properties induced by stretch reflex activity h...

    Authors: Mehdi M Mirbagheri, Laila Alibiglou, Montakan Thajchayapong and William Z Rymer
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:6
  20. Restoration of upper limb movements in subjects recovering from stroke is an essential keystone in rehabilitative practices. Rehabilitation of arm movements, in fact, is usually a far more difficult one as com...

    Authors: Michela Goffredo, Ivan Bernabucci, Maurizio Schmid and Silvia Conforto
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:5
  21. Trip-related falls which is a major problem in the elderly population, might be linked to declines in the balance control function due to ageing. Minimum foot clearance (MFC) which provides a more sensitive me...

    Authors: Ahsan H Khandoker, Marimuthu Palaniswami and Rezaul K Begg
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:4
  22. Several studies have demonstrated the capability of PD subjects to improve gait if appropriate visual cues are provided. Possible explanations referred to attentional factors and to the presence of optic flow ...

    Authors: Maurizio Ferrarin, Marco Rabuffetti, Mauro Tettamanti, Riccardo Pignatti, Alessandro Mauro and Giovanni Albani
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:3
  23. The function of a cylinder allowing simultaneous measurements of the opposition axis of the index finger and thumb of the hand and the magnitude of pinch force is described.

    Authors: Daniel Bourbonnais, Victor Frak, Jean-François Pilon and Michel Goyette
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:2
  24. In long-term care environments, residents who have severe mobility deficits are typically transported by having another person push the individual in a manual wheelchair. This practice is inefficient and encou...

    Authors: Vinod Sharma, Richard C Simpson, Edmund F LoPresti, Casimir Mostowy, Joseph Olson, Jeremy Puhlman, Steve Hayashi, Rory A Cooper, Ed Konarski and Barry Kerley
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5:1
  25. Ankle sprains are common injuries that often lead to functional ankle instability (FAI), which is a pathology defined by sensations of instability at the ankle and recurrent ankle sprain injury. Poor postural ...

    Authors: Scott E Ross, Brent L Arnold, J Troy Blackburn, Cathleen N Brown and Kevin M Guskiewicz
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:47
  26. The aim of electroencephalogram (EEG) source localization is to find the brain areas responsible for EEG waves of interest. It consists of solving forward and inverse problems. The forward problem is solved by...

    Authors: Hans Hallez, Bart Vanrumste, Roberta Grech, Joseph Muscat, Wim De Clercq, Anneleen Vergult, Yves D'Asseler, Kenneth P Camilleri, Simon G Fabri, Sabine Van Huffel and Ignace Lemahieu
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:46
  27. The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness along with academic, professional, provider, accreditor and other organizations, sponsored a 2-day State-o...

    Authors: Allen W Heinemann
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:43
  28. Biomechanical measures of postural stability, while generally useful in neuroscience and physical rehabilitation research, may be limited in their ability to detect more subtle influences of attention on postu...

    Authors: James T Cavanaugh, Vicki S Mercer and Nicholas Stergiou
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:42
  29. There is an important need to better understand the activities of individual patients with stroke outside of structured therapy since this activity is likely to have a profound influence on recovery. A case-st...

    Authors: William H Gage, Karl F Zabjek, Kathryn M Sibley, Ada Tang, Dina Brooks and William E McIlroy
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:41
  30. It has been suggested that Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) may one day be suitable for controlling a neuroprosthesis. For closed-loop operation of BCI, a tactile feedback channel that is compatible with neurop...

    Authors: Aniruddha Chatterjee, Vikram Aggarwal, Ander Ramos, Soumyadipta Acharya and Nitish V Thakor
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:40
  31. Visual motion often provokes vection (the induced perception of self-motion) and postural movement. Postural movement is known to increase during vection, suggesting the same visual motion signal underlies vec...

    Authors: Shigehito Tanahashi, Hiroyasu Ujike, Ryo Kozawa and Kazuhiko Ukai
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:39
  32. Application of virtual environment (VE) technology to motor rehabilitation increases the number of possible rehabilitation tasks and/or exercises. However, enhancing a specific sensory stimulus sometimes cause...

    Authors: Tohru Kiryu, Atsuhiko Iijima and Takehiko Bando
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:38
  33. Taking advantage of developed image technology, it is expected that image presentation would be utilized to promote health in the field of medical care and public health. To accumulate knowledge on biomedical ...

    Authors: Hiroshi Oyamada, Atsuhiko Iijima, Akira Tanaka, Kazuhiko Ukai, Haruo Toda, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Yoshizawa and Takehiko Bando
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:37
  34. We studied the effects of the presentation of a visual sign that warned subjects of acceleration around the yaw and pitch axes in virtual reality (VR) on their heart rate variability.

    Authors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Wataru Teramoto and Hiroyuki Umemura
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:36
  35. Computer graphics and virtual reality techniques are useful to develop automatic and effective rehabilitation systems. However, a kind of virtual environment including unstable visual images presented to wide ...

    Authors: Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Yoshizawa, Makoto Abe, Akira Tanaka, Takashi Watanabe, Shigeru Chiba, Tomoyuki Yambe and Shin-ichi Nitta
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:35
  36. Around three years ago, in the special issue on augmented and virtual reality in rehabilitation, the topics of simulator sickness was briefly discussed in relation to vestibular rehabilitation. Simulator sickn...

    Authors: Tohru Kiryu and Richard HY So
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:34
  37. In humans, the implementation of multijoint tasks of the arm implies a highly complex integration of sensory information, sensorimotor transformations and motor planning. Computational models can be profitably...

    Authors: Ivan Bernabucci, Silvia Conforto, Marco Capozza, Neri Accornero, Maurizio Schmid and Tommaso D'Alessio
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:33
  38. Treadmill training with bodyweight support and manual assistance improves walking ability of patients with neurological injury. The purpose of this study was to determine how manual assistance changes muscle a...

    Authors: Antoinette Domingo, Gregory S Sawicki and Daniel P Ferris
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:32
  39. The inattentive eye often will not notice it, but synchronization among human walking partners is quite common. In this first investigation of this phenomenon, we studied its frequency and the mechanisms that ...

    Authors: Ari Z Zivotofsky and Jeffrey M Hausdorff
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:28
  40. Hemispatial neglect is a cognitive disorder defined as a lack of attention for stimuli contra-lateral to the brain lesion. The assessment is traditionally done with basic pencil and paper tests and the rehabil...

    Authors: Kenji Baheux, Makoto Yoshizawa and Yasuko Yoshida
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:27
  41. Topographical disorientation represents one of the main consequences of brain injury. Up to now several methodological approaches have been used in the assessment of the brain injured patient's navigational ab...

    Authors: Francesca Morganti, Andrea Gaggioli, Lorenzo Strambi, Maria Luisa Rusconi and Giuseppe Riva
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:26
  42. There is a need for effective and early functional rehabilitation of patients with gait and balance problems including those with spinal cord injury, neurological diseases and recovering from hip fractures, a ...

    Authors: Lars IE Oddsson, Robin Karlsson, Janusz Konrad, Serdar Ince, Steve R Williams and Erika Zemkova
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:25
  43. To determine if increased visual dependence can be quantified through its impact on automatic postural responses, we have measured the combined effect on the latencies and magnitudes of postural response kinem...

    Authors: Emily A Keshner, Jefferson Streepey, Yasin Dhaher and Timothy Hain
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:24
  44. Planning and execution of reaching requires a series of computational processes that involve localization of both the target and initial arm position, and the translation of this spatial information into appro...

    Authors: Assaf Y Dvorkin, Robert V Kenyon and Emily A Keshner
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007 4:23

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