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By Winnie Jensen, Ole Kæseler Andersen, Metin Akay (eds.)

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The ebook is the complaints of the second foreign convention on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR 2014), held 24th-26th June 2014 in Aalborg, Denmark. The convention featured the newest highlights within the rising and interdisciplinary box of neural rehabilitation engineering and pointed out vital healthcare demanding situations the medical group might be confronted with within the coming years. Edited and written by means of prime specialists within the box, the publication comprises keynote papers, standard convention papers, and contributions to big and innovation periods, overlaying the next major issues: neuro-rehabilitation purposes and recommendations for restoring impaired neurological services; state-of-the-art applied sciences and techniques in neuro-rehabilitation; and translational demanding situations in neuro-rehabilitation. because of its hugely interdisciplinary process, the ebook won't basically be a hugely appropriate reference advisor for tutorial researchers, engineers, neurophysiologists, neuroscientists, physicians and physiotherapists operating on the leading edge in their box, yet also will aid to behave as bridge among the medical, engineering and scientific communities.

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In approved medical devices this number of feed-throughs is limited to Miniaturized Neural Interfaces and Implants in Neurological Rehabilitation 13 about 20, so far. Current technology delivers packages at a certain size but has been able to deliver long-term stable systems that survive about 10 years even in parts of the body where motions are present [10]. Miniaturized implant packages have to face the challenge of integrating hundreds of electrical feedthroughs without deteriorating hermeticity.

These technologies need further refinement and integration in chronically implanted systems so that long term performance, both recording and stimulation can be demonstrated. For long term implantation, the electrode- brain tissue interface needs to be improved. Major barriers that remain, including demonstrating chronic reliability and biocompatibility, demonstrating safety and efficacy, and obtaining regulatory approvals, ethical considerations of carrying out clinical trials and balancing the risk and reward, and formulating a suitable business model including scale up, cost effectiveness and reimbursement.

E. by interpreting the innervated muscle an estimate of the motor command carried by the nerve can be obtained from the muscle contracture. Put it other way, when there is a loss of limb, the reinnervated muscle provides the signature of the intended motor function, which can then be relayed to the prosthetic limb. This approach, called targeted muscle reinnervation, has been a very successful, rapidly gaining clinical acceptance due to its effectiveness, despite the rather invasive and complex nature of the interface and the overall technology.

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Replace, Repair, Restore, Relieve – Bridging Clinical and Engineering Solutions in Neurorehabilitation: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2014), Aalborg, 24-26 June, 2014 by Winnie Jensen, Ole Kæseler Andersen, Metin Akay (eds.)


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