Motors

Daily Assistance for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients Based on a Wearable Multimodal Brain-Computer Interface Mouse

Daily Assistance for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients Based on a Wearable Multimodal Brain-Computer Interface Mouse

Daily Assistance for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients Based on a Wearable Multimodal Brain-Computer Interface Mouse 789 444 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disease that mainly causes damage to upper and lower motor neurons. This leads to a progressive deterioration in the voluntary mobility… read more
Cortico-Muscular Phase Connectivity During an Isometric Knee Extension Task in People with Early Parkinson’s Disease

Cortico-Muscular Phase Connectivity During an Isometric Knee Extension Task in People With Early Parkinson’s Disease

Cortico-Muscular Phase Connectivity During an Isometric Knee Extension Task in People With Early Parkinson’s Disease 789 444 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
Introduction: Cortico-muscular (CM) interactions provide insights into the flow of information between neural and motor systems. Reduced CM phase connectivity has been linked to functional impairments in clinical populations. Objective:… read more

Differences in ankle neuromuscular control between the preferred speed and fixed speeds during walking

Differences in ankle neuromuscular control between the preferred speed and fixed speeds during walking 150 150 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
Walking at the preferred speed, considered as a self-optimized gait pattern, is associated with improved energy conservation and cognitive abilities. However, the neuro-muscular mechanisms underlying the benefits of the preferred… read more

Exploring Control Mechanism of Motoneuron Pools for the Forearm Antagonist Synergistic Muscles

Exploring Control Mechanism of Motoneuron Pools for the Forearm Antagonist Synergistic Muscles 150 150 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
The EMG-based neural control strategy provides technical support and innovative methodologies for the precise control and natural movement of hand prostheses. For enabling the prostheses to mimic the function of… read more

Inertial-Based Dual-Task Gait Normalcy Index at Turns: A Potential Novel Gait Biomarker for Early-Stage Parkinson’s Disease

Inertial-Based Dual-Task Gait Normalcy Index at Turns: A Potential Novel Gait Biomarker for Early-Stage Parkinson’s Disease 150 150 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
As one of the main motor indicators of Parkinson’s disease (PD), postural instability and gait disorder (PIGD) might manifest in various but subtle symptoms at early stage resulting in relatively… read more

Corticomuscular Coupling Alterations During Elbow Isometric Contraction Correlated With Clinical Scores: An fNIRS-sEMG Study in Stroke Survivors

Corticomuscular Coupling Alterations During Elbow Isometric Contraction Correlated With Clinical Scores: An fNIRS-sEMG Study in Stroke Survivors 150 150 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
The study aimed to investigate changes in corticomuscular coupling during elbow flexion and extension in stroke survivors using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and surface electromyography (sEMG), and to evaluate the… read more

Design of a Savitzky-Golay Filter-Based vEMG-FES System

Design of a Savitzky-Golay Filter-Based vEMG-FES System 150 150 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
It is evident that voluntary effort plays a crucial role in electrical stimulation rehabilitation, facilitating neuroplasticity enhancement in patients with neurological disorders. In this paper, we present a multichannel system… read more

Optimizing Stroke Detection Using Evidential Networks and Uncertainty-Based Refinement

Optimizing Stroke Detection Using Evidential Networks and Uncertainty-Based Refinement 150 150 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
Evaluating neurological impairments post-stroke is essential for assessing treatment efficacy and managing subsequent disabilities. Conventional clinical assessment methods depend largely on clinicians’ visual and physical evaluations, resulting in coarse rating… read more

Motor Unit Sampling From Intramuscular Micro-Electrode Array Recordings

Motor Unit Sampling From Intramuscular Micro-Electrode Array Recordings 150 150 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
Recordings of electrical activity from muscles allow us to identify the activity of pools of spinal motor neurons that send the neural drive for muscle activation. Decoding motor unit and… read more

Using Passive BCI for Personalization of Assistive Wearable Devices: A Proof-of-Concept Study

Using Passive BCI for Personalization of Assistive Wearable Devices: A Proof-of-Concept Study 150 150 Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE)
Assistive wearable devices can significantly enhance the quality of life for individuals with movement impairments, aid the rehabilitation process, and augment movement abilities of healthy users. However, personalizing the assistance… read more