Disabled Persons

Credit: Courtesy Woon-Hong Yeo Combining new classes of nanomembrane electrodes with flexible electronics and a deep learning algorithm could help disabled people wirelessly control an electric wheelchair, interact with a…

Neuropsychological assessment among the tools useful for measuring the impact of multiple sclerosis on everyday activities, according to researchers at Kessler FoundationCredit: Kessler Foundation/Jody Banks East Hanover,…

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 investigatorCredit: Mayo Clinic East Hanover, NJ.…

Disabled people face being marginalised by the very programmes that are designed to help them. Rather than taking their differences and particular preferences into account, projects and welfare systems established to provide support are…

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…

The National Institutes of Health awarded a $3,547,908 grant to Karen Nolan, PhD, and Soha Saleh, PhD, of Kessler Foundation to study effects of early post stroke intervention with a progressive robot-assisted gait interventionCredit:…

UM School of Medicine research shows that current rehabilitation practices may not be sufficient for hip fracture recovery in older adults Each year more than 260,000 older Americans are hospitalized for hip fractures, a debilitating…

Credit: Courtesy of University of Hamburg Data from individuals with different types of severe visual impairment suggest that the associations we make between sounds and shapes -- a "smooth" b or a "spiky" k -- may form during a sensitive…

Neurofeedback for leg prosthesesCredit: ETH Zurich / Stanisa Raspopovic While walking, people with intact legs feel when they move their knee or when their feet touch the ground. The nervous system constantly draws on sensory feedback of…

Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report featuring Project E3: Educate, Empower, Employ, a comprehensive program serving communities with the deepest poverty and lowest employment in the USCredit: Kessler Foundation…