Emerging technologies for management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: from telehealth to assistive robotics and neural interfaces

R Pugliese, R Sala, S Regondi, B Beltrami… - Journal of Neurology, 2022 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease, is characterized
by the degeneration of both upper and lower motor neurons, which leads to muscle …

Statistical measures of motor, sensory and cognitive performance across repeated robot-based testing

LER Simmatis, S Early, KD Moore, S Appaqaq… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2020 - Springer
Background Traditional clinical assessments are used extensively in neurology; however,
they can be coarse, which can also make them insensitive to change. Kinarm is a robotic …

The feasibility of using robotic technology to quantify sensory, motor, and cognitive impairments associated with ALS

L Simmatis, G Atallah, SH Scott… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: We used the KINARM robot to quantify impairments in cognitive and upper-limb
sensorimotor performance in a cohort of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We …

[HTML][HTML] Robotic assessment of sensorimotor and cognitive deficits in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

S Finn, T Aliyianis, B Beattie, LB Lomax, G Shukla… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) frequently demonstrate impairments
in executive function, working memory, and/or declarative memory. It is recommended that …

Regression techniques employing feature selection to predict clinical outcomes in stroke

Y Abdel Majeed, SS Awadalla, JL Patton - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
It is not fully clear which measurable factors can reliably predict chronic stroke patients'
recovery of motor ability. In this analysis, we investigate the impact of patient demographic …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing various sensorimotor and cognitive functions in people with epilepsy is feasible with robotics

LER Simmatis, AY Jin, M Keiski, LB Lomax, SH Scott… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent
seizures, along with comorbid cognitive and psychosocial impairment. Current gold …

Quantifying changes over 1 year in motor and cognitive skill after transient ischemic attack (TIA) using robotics

LER Simmatis, SH Scott, AY Jin - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Recent work has highlighted that people who have had TIA may have abnormal motor and
cognitive function. We aimed to quantify deficits in a cohort of individuals who had TIA and …

Reduction of assessment time for stroke-related impairments using robotic evaluation

SM Mostafavi, S Scott, S Dukelow… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic technologies can provide objective, reliable tools for assessing a broad range of
sensory, motor and cognitive functions. However, as additional tasks are developed on …

[HTML][HTML] Impairments of the arm and hand are highly correlated during subacute stroke

SP DUKELOW, SH SCOTT - Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
IMPAIRMENTS OF THE ARM AND HAND ARE HIGHLY CORRELATED DURING
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Robotic assessment of upper limb function in a nonhuman primate model of chronic stroke

Y Chen, MC Poole, SV Olesovsky… - Translational Stroke …, 2021 - Springer
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide and survivors are frequently left
with long-term disabilities that diminish their autonomy and result in the need for chronic …