A wirelessly-controlled and wearable skin-integrated haptic VR device

Sensing a hug from your friend through a video call with him/her may become a reality soon. A joint-research team consisted of scientists and engineers from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Northwestern University in the United States has…

Why only some post-stroke survivors can ‘copy what I say’

Certain brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia if they are to copy what another speaker says, report researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere in Brain

Why only some post-stroke survivors can ‘copy what I say’

Certain brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia if they are to copy what another speaker says, report researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere in Brain

Researchers find risk factors for unemployment with multiple sclerosis vary by age

Kessler Foundation researchers studied relationships of multiple factors — age, disease, psychological, person-specific — with unemployment in individuals with multiple sclerosis

How skin cells from foot soles could help relieve amputees of stump injury

People who have had limbs removed often use false arms and legs, known as prosthetics, to improve mobility and independence – but 75 per cent of prosthetic-wearing amputees encounter problems like skin tears, ulceration, and blisters. To address this, Imperial…

Kessler scientists receive grant to study exercise benefits in multiple sclerosis

Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers awards grant to Drs. John DeLuca and Helen Genova to study the effects of different exercise regimens across multiple realms of symptoms and functioning

nTIDE September 2019 Jobs Report: Indicators level off for Americans with disabilities

Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report featuring National Disability Institute’s work on the end goal of disability employment — financial stability and independence for people with disabilities

Amputees merge with their bionic leg

Djurica Resanovic lost his leg in a motorbike accident several years ago which resulted in amputation above the knee. Thanks to novel neuroprosthetic leg technology, Resanovic was successfully merged with his bionic leg during clinical trials in Belgrade, Serbia. “After…

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine names Dr. Garlanger winner of Bors Award

Kristin Garlanger, DO, of the Mayo Clinic, is this year’s winner of the Ernest Bors, MD Award for Scientific Development, the journal’s annual award for best article by a young investigator

A smart artificial hand for amputees merges user and robotic control

EPFL scientists are developing new approaches for improved control of robotic hands – in particular for amputees – that combines individual finger control and automation for improved grasping and manipulation. This interdisciplinary proof-of-concept between neuroengineering and robotics was successfully tested…

Foot painters’ toes mapped like fingers in the brain

Using your feet like hands can cause organised ‘hand-like’ maps of the toes in the brain, never before documented in people, finds a new UCL-led study of two professional foot painters. These findings, published in Cell Reports , demonstrate an…

Dr. Xuan Liu receives Switzer Research Fellowship for mobility research in cerebral palsy

NIDILRR fellowship funds gait retraining research in children by Children’s Specialized Hospital-Kes

UTHealth’s Argyrios Stampas earns training grant from Center for Clinical & Translational Sciences

Argyrios Stampas, MD, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation with McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), has been awarded a KL2 training grant for research pertaining to bladder conditions for spinal…

Research to use human-vehicle collaboration to improve trust in autonomous vehicles

Orono, Maine — A $500,000 National Science Foundation research grant to the University of Maine to study self-driving vehicles aims to make the transportation of the future more accessible, usable and trustworthy. The project, co-led by Nicholas Giudice and Richard…