Development of a Gait Rehabilitation System With a Spherical Immersive Projection Display

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 836-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Yano ◽  
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Takayuki Masuda ◽  
Yosuke Nakajima ◽  
Naoki Tanaka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Gait Rehabilitation ◽  
Omnidirectional Camera ◽  
Integrative System ◽  
Rehabilitation System ◽  
Projection Display ◽  
Locomotion Interface

This paper describes the development of an integrative system for gait rehabilitation. The system can present visual images and the sensation of walking to a user. The system consists of a locomotion interface, “GaitMaster4,” and a spherical immersive projection display. The locomotion interface moves the users' feet while it keeps their bodies in the real world. Wide-angle images captured from an omnidirectional camera are projected onto the immersive projection display. To evaluate the system, subjects' brain activity was measured using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), and the effectiveness of the system was confirmed.

scholarly journals Interactive Gait Rehabilitation System with a Locomotion Interface for Training Patients to Climb Stairs

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Yano ◽  
Shintaro Tamefusa ◽  
Naoki Tanaka ◽  
Hideyuki Saito ◽  
Hiroo Iwata
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Sensors ◽  
Gait Training ◽  
Gait Rehabilitation ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Pressure Data ◽  
Foot Pressure ◽  
Interactive Mode ◽  
Rehabilitation System ◽  
Locomotion Interface

This paper describes the development of a gait rehabilitation system with a locomotion interface (LI) for training patients to climb stairs. The LI consists of two 2-DOF manipulators equipped with footpads. These can move the patient's feet while his or her body remains stationary. The footpads follow the prerecorded motion of the feet of healthy individuals. For gait training, the patient progresses sequentially through successively more advanced modes. In this study, two modes, the enforced climbing of stairs and interactive climbing of stairs, were developed. In the interactive mode, foot pressure sensors are used to realize interactive walking. Comparisons were made between the modes for healthy individuals and a patient. The effectiveness of the system was examined using electromyography (EMG) and foot pressure data.

scholarly journals Development of a Portable Gait Rehabilitation System for Home-Visit Rehabilitation

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Yano ◽  
Naoki Tanaka ◽  
Kiyotaka Kamibayashi ◽  
Hideyuki Saitou ◽  
Hiroo Iwata
Keyword(s):  
Home Visit ◽  
Physical Therapist ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gait Rehabilitation ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Flat Surfaces ◽  
Walking Program ◽  
Rehabilitation System ◽  
Locomotion Interface ◽  
Femoris Muscle

This paper describes the development of a gait rehabilitation system with a locomotion interface (LI) for home-visit rehabilitation. For this purpose, the LI should be compact, small, and easy to move. The LI has two 2 degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulators with footpads to move each foot along a trajectory. When the user stands on the footpads, the system can move his or her feet while the body remains stationary. The footpads can have various trajectories, which are prerecordings of the movements of healthy individuals walking on plane surfaces or slopes. The homes of stroke patients may have not only flat surfaces but also some slopes and staircases. The quadriceps femoris muscle is important for walking up and down slopes and staircases, and the eccentric and concentric contractions of this muscle are, in particular, difficult to train under normal circumstances. Therefore, we developed a graded-walking program for the system used in this study. Using this system, the user can undergo gait rehabilitation in their home, during visits by a physical therapist. An evaluation of the results of tests showed that the vastus medialis muscles of all the subjects were stimulated more than by walking on real slopes.

Development of a gait rehabilitation system using a locomotion interface

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 243-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Yano ◽  
Kaori Kasai ◽  
Hideyuki Saitou ◽  
Hiroo Iwata
Keyword(s):  
Gait Rehabilitation ◽  
Rehabilitation System ◽  
Locomotion Interface

Making social neuroscience less WEIRD: Using fNIRS to measure neural signatures of persuasive influence in a Middle East participant sample

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Burns ◽  
Lianne N. Barnes ◽  
Ian A. McCulloh ◽  
Munqith M. Dagher ◽  
Emily B. Falk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Social Neuroscience ◽  
Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
Neuropsychological Functions ◽  
Arabic Speaking

The large majority of social neuroscience research uses WEIRD populations – participants from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic locations. This makes it difficult to claim whether neuropsychological functions are universal or culture specific. In this study, we demonstrate one approach to addressing the imbalance by using portable neuroscience equipment in a study of persuasion conducted in Jordan with an Arabic-speaking sample. Participants were shown persuasive videos on various health and safety topics while their brain activity was measured using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Self-reported persuasiveness ratings for each video were then recorded. Consistent with previous research conducted with American subjects, this work found that activity in the dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex predicted how persuasive participants found the videos and how much they intended to engage in the messages’ endorsed behaviors. Further, activity in the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex was associated with persuasiveness ratings, but only in participants for whom the message was personally relevant. Implications for these results on the understanding of the brain basis of persuasion and on future directions for neuroimaging in diverse populations are discussed.

scholarly journals Cortical Activity Linked to Clocking in Deaf Adults: fNIRS Insights with Static and Animated Stimuli Presentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Sébastien Laurent ◽  
Laurence Paire-Ficout ◽  
Jean-Michel Boucheix ◽  
Stéphane Argon ◽  
Antonio Hidalgo-Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Time Estimation ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Vehicle Speed ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
The Road ◽  
Deaf Adults

The question of the possible impact of deafness on temporal processing remains unanswered. Different findings, based on behavioral measures, show contradictory results. The goal of the present study is to analyze the brain activity underlying time estimation by using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) techniques, which allow examination of the frontal, central and occipital cortical areas. A total of 37 participants (19 deaf) were recruited. The experimental task involved processing a road scene to determine whether the driver had time to safely execute a driving task, such as overtaking. The road scenes were presented in animated format, or in sequences of 3 static images showing the beginning, mid-point, and end of a situation. The latter presentation required a clocking mechanism to estimate the time between the samples to evaluate vehicle speed. The results show greater frontal region activity in deaf people, which suggests that more cognitive effort is needed to process these scenes. The central region, which is involved in clocking according to several studies, is particularly activated by the static presentation in deaf people during the estimation of time lapses. Exploration of the occipital region yielded no conclusive results. Our results on the frontal and central regions encourage further study of the neural basis of time processing and its links with auditory capacity.

Gait Rehabilitation System based on Mixed Reality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Vilar Paredes ◽  
Octavian Postolache ◽  
Joao Monge ◽  
Pedro Silva Girao
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Gait Rehabilitation ◽  
Rehabilitation System

PINPOINT SOURCE LOCALIZATION FOR OCULAR NONSELECTIVE ATTENTION WITH COMBINATION OF ERP AND fNIRI MEASUREMENTS

2008 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 195-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
TING LI ◽  
LI LI ◽  
PENG DU ◽  
QINGMING LUO ◽  
HUI GONG
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Infrared Imaging ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Reliable Technique ◽  
Brain Mechanism ◽  
Electrophysiological Signals ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Hemodynamic Information

Compared with event-related potential (ERP) which is widely used in psychology research, functional near-infrared imaging (fNIRI) is a new technique providing hemodynamic information related to brain activity, except for electrophysiological signals. Here, we use both these techniques to study ocular attention. We conducted a series of experiments with a classic paradigm of ocular nonselective attention, and monitored responses with fNIRI and ERP respectively. The results showed that fNIRI measured brain activations in the left prefrontal lobe, while ERPs showed activation in frontal lobe. More importantly, only with the combination measurements of fNIRI and ERP, we were then able to find the pinpoint source of ocular nonselective attention, which is in the left and upper corner in Brodmann area 10. These results demonstrated that fNIRI is a reliable technique in psychology, and the combination of fNIRI and ERP can be promising to reveal more information in the research of brain mechanism.

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