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Trends in rehabilitation robotics

Trends in rehabilitation robotics Med Biol Eng Comput (2011) 49:1089–1091 DOI 10.1007/s11517-011-0836-x EDITORIAL • • Nicolas Garcia Jose M. Sabater-Navarro E. Gugliemeli A. Casals Received: 16 August 2011 / Accepted: 12 September 2011 / Published online: 30 September 2011 International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering 2011 Recent advances in rehabilitation procedures, methodolo- treatment of cognitive disorders, e.g., to support the psy- gies and tools tend to include more and more the cognitive chological enrichment of the elderly. aspects of motor control. With the exploitation of new This Special Issue is related to the workshop ‘Future technologies for brain imaging, it is also possible to ‘close trends in Rehabilitation Robotics’ organized within the the loop’ from brain to action. In this multidisciplinary framework of the IEEE International Conference on Bio- field, robotics gets a relevant role, which can be fruitfully medical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2010 whose main employed in the rehabilitation of neuromotor functions and objective was to provide an overview of the most recent motor capabilities, by providing tools that are by nature advances in rehabilitation robotics and to explore new flexible and programmable and that allow to set and assess directions in the field, focusing particularly on cognitive procedures quantitatively. aspects http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 by International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering
Subject
Biomedicine; Computer Applications; Imaging / Radiology; Biomedical Engineering; Human Physiology
ISSN
0140-0118
eISSN
1741-0444
DOI
10.1007/s11517-011-0836-x
pmid
21959593
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Abstract

Med Biol Eng Comput (2011) 49:1089–1091 DOI 10.1007/s11517-011-0836-x EDITORIAL • • Nicolas Garcia Jose M. Sabater-Navarro E. Gugliemeli A. Casals Received: 16 August 2011 / Accepted: 12 September 2011 / Published online: 30 September 2011 International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering 2011 Recent advances in rehabilitation procedures, methodolo- treatment of cognitive disorders, e.g., to support the psy- gies and tools tend to include more and more the cognitive chological enrichment of the elderly. aspects of motor control. With the exploitation of new This Special Issue is related to the workshop ‘Future technologies for brain imaging, it is also possible to ‘close trends in Rehabilitation Robotics’ organized within the the loop’ from brain to action. In this multidisciplinary framework of the IEEE International Conference on Bio- field, robotics gets a relevant role, which can be fruitfully medical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2010 whose main employed in the rehabilitation of neuromotor functions and objective was to provide an overview of the most recent motor capabilities, by providing tools that are by nature advances in rehabilitation robotics and to explore new flexible and programmable and that allow to set and assess directions in the field, focusing particularly on cognitive procedures quantitatively. aspects

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Medical & Biological Engineering & ComputingSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 30, 2011

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