2-22-2014
Stimulation glove for stroke patients
RUBIN international edition 2014
Passive stimulation improves sense of touch and motor skills.
Improving
the sense of touch and motor skills without active training – what
sounds impossible, does actually work. Neuroscientists at the
Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a glove that uses weak electrical
pulses to stimulate the nerve fibres that connect the hands with the
brain. If applied regularly, that kind of passive stimulation results in
an improvement of both tactile perception and motor function. A team
headed by PD Dr Hubert Dinse and Prof Dr Martin Tegenthoff has
successfully treated a number of patients suffering from stroke-related
impairments. Their report has been published in RUBIN, the
Ruhr-Universität’s science magazine.
4-29-2013
Balanceanalysis with STABLE
STABLE (STAnding BaLance
Evaluation) is a software that enables you to use commercial force
platforms (like the Nintendo Wii Balanceboard©) to assess standing
balance.
Further information
here.
9-10-2011
Current Biology article in "Faculty of 1000"
about Faculty of 1000
from the evaluation:
Based on the knowledge that high-frequency stimulation evokes long-term
potentiation (LTP) and low frequency long-term depression (LTD), the
authors examine how learning of a task-relevant feature and of a
task-irrelevant feature occur. While high-frequency stimulation improves
performance on the task-relevant feature but impairs performance on the
task-irrelevant feature, low-frequency stimulation produces reversed
effects. The results indicate that task-relevant and task-irrelevant
visual learning are subserved by different mechanisms, in a
ground-breaking way of linking changes in synaptic connections to
behavioral changes.
Beste C, Wascher E, Gunturkun O, Dinse HR (2011) | Current Biology 21: 876–882
Improvement and impairment of visually guided behavior through LTP- and LTD-like exposure-based visual learning
9-2-2011
"Special Issue" in Neural Plasticity: Plasticity of Adult Sensorimotor System
Guest Editors:
Marie-Hélène Canu, Jacques-Olivier Coq, Mary F. Barbe, Hubert Dinse
Manuscript Due: December 2, 2011
Publication Date: June 1, 2012
more information: Neural Plasticity
4-14-2010
Article about rehabilitation (Arch Phys Med Rehabil) in "Faculty of 1000"
about Faculty of 1000
from the evaluation:
Tactile sensibility of the hand is essential for identifying objects and
for fine motor performance. Rehabilitation of motor skills is difficult
to achieve when sensory perception is affected in stroke. I find this
study interesting because loss of tactile sensation is a major problem
in stroke and the treatment method used, sensory stimulation by means of
tactile co-activation of fingertips, does not require the active
participation or attention of the patient.
4-18-2007
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