Neural interface technology for rehabilitation: exploiting and promoting neuroplasticity.
Neural interface technology for rehabilitation: exploiting and promoting neuroplasticity.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.pmr.2009.07.003
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发表时间:
2010-02
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Weber, Douglas J
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作者:
Wang, Wei;Collinger, Jennifer L;Perez, Monica A;Tyler-Kabara, Elizabeth C;Cohen, Leonardo G;Birbaumer, Niels;Brose, Steven W;Schwartz, Andrew B;Boninger, Michael L;Weber, Douglas J
The primary goal of rehabilitation is to restore physical, psychological, and social functions and improve the quality of life for individuals with various motor, sensory, and/or cognitive impairments. While treatment options vary from pharmacological agents to physical exercise, this review paper focuses on neural interface technology, also called neuroprosthetics, which functions by directly interacting with the nervous system either electrically or magnetically. Luigi Galvani documented more than two hundred years ago that leg muscle contraction can be elicited by electrical stimulation of the femoral nerve 1, 2. However, it is only in the last several decades that neural interface technology started to receive increasing attention from biomedical engineers, neuroscientists, and clinicians, largely due to great advance in electronic medical devices and system neuroscience research. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved cochlear implants for treating hearing loss in 1984 and deep brain stimulators (DBS) for treating Parkinson's disease in 2000 3. The National Institutes of Health currently holds a bi-annual Neural Interface Conference with the goal of bringing industry partners,