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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in cerebral metabolism in patients with a minimally conscious state responding to zolpidem

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Background: Zolpidem, a short-acting nonbenzodiazepine GABA agonist hypnotic, has been shown to induce paradoxical responses in some patients with disorders of consciousness, leading to recovery of arousal and cognitive abilities.
Camille eChatelle, Camille eChatelle, Aurore eThibaut, Olivia eGosseries, Marie-Aurelie eBruno, Athena eDemertzi, Claire eBernard, Roland eHustinx, Luaba eTshibanda, Mohamed Ali eBahri, Steven eLaureys   +10 more
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Hydrophilic Polymers Enable Gastrointestinal Transit Monitoring by Fluorine‐19 Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Hydrophilic fluorinated copolymers dissolve in chyme and give a strong, single 19F signal, unlike phase‐separating perfluorocarbons. Combined 1H‐19F MRI tracks their whole‐gut transit non‐invasively and without ionizing radiation. In rats, the tracers move through the gastrointestinal tract, resist resorption, and are well tolerated, a proof‐of‐concept
Ondřej Groborz, Vít Herynek, Mária Hovořáková, Zuzana Pavlíková, Linda Dalecká, Klára Steklíková, Petr Matouš, Petr Páral, Margarita Tkachenko, Filip Koucký, Fatma Nalan Cetin, Ludmila Maffei Svobodová, Jiří Beneš, Kristýna Kolouchová   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional brain imaging in the clinical assessment of consciousness.

PLoS Biology, 2010
Recent findings suggest that functional brain imaging might be used to identify consciousness in patients diagnosed with persistent vegetative state and minimally conscious state.
Michael S Rafii, James B Brewer
doaj   +1 more source

Quantity and quality of experience of a “minimally conscious” photodiode.

, 2014
(A) The minimally conscious photodiode DP consists of detector element D and predictor element P. D receives two external inputs and has a threshold ≥2. All connections have weight 1. (B) P serves as a memory for the previous state of D and its feed-back
Giulio Tononi (2644), Masafumi Oizumi (364536), Larissa Albantakis (141775)   +2 more
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Bioengineered Interfaces for Peripheral Nerve Sensory Restoration

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Half of amputees abandon their prosthetics for lack of feeling. This review charts the full path from peripheral nerve injury to restored sensation, through surgical, regenerative, noninvasive, and implanted approaches, and shows how injury type and interface material properties determine which strategy can deliver naturalistic feedback, and why ...
Sydney Swedick, Salim El Hadwe, Kesi Liang, George G. Malliaras, Damiano G. Barone   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Altered network properties of the fronto-parietal network and the thalamus in impaired consciousness

NeuroImage: Clinical, 2014
Recovery of consciousness has been associated with connectivity in the frontal cortex and parietal regions modulated by the thalamus. To examine this model and to relate alterations to deficits in cognitive functioning and conscious processing, we ...
Julia Sophia Crone, Andrea Soddu, Yvonne Höller, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Matthias Schurz, Jürgen Bergmann, Elisabeth Schmid, Eugen Trinka, Steven Laureys, Martin Kronbichler   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of visual fixation in vegetative and minimally conscious states [PDF]

BMC Neurology, 2014
Visual fixation plays a key role in the differentiation between vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness (VS/UWS) syndrome and minimally conscious state (MCS). However, the use of different stimuli changes the frequency of visual fixation occured in patients, thereby possibly affecting the accuracy of the diagnosis.
Di, Haibo, Nie, Yunzhi, Hu, Xiaohu, Tong, Yong, Heine, Lizette, Wannez, Sarah, Huang, Wangshan, Yu, Dan, He, Minhui, Thibaut, Aurore, Schnakers, Caroline, Laureys, Steven   +11 more
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A Multidirectional Textile Interface for Remote Control Using Dynamic Area‐Based Capacitance Modulation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Here, we present a textile, wearable capacitive interface enabling multidirectional remote control by dynamically modulating electrode overlap and spacing via a freely gliding upper electrode. A forearm‐mounted prototype drives robotic and media tasks with 12–15 ms latency, maintains < 0.8% drift after 500 cycles, and remains stably functional at 90 ...
Cagatay Gumus, Fulya Yenilmez, Kadir Ozlem, Hakan Kestir, Eren Tasdemir, Berkant Bakisli, Gökhan Ince, Ozgur Atalay, Asli Tuncay Atalay   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cerebral response to patient's own name in the vegetative and minimally conscious states

, 2007
Background: A challenge in the management of severely brain- damaged patients with altered states of consciousness is the differential diagnosis between the vegetative state ( VS) and the minimally conscious state ( MCS), especially for the gray zone ...
Qin, P. M., Laureys, S., Y. Z. Chen, Weng, X. C., Zhu, Y. H., Chen, Y. Z., Li, J. Q., Zhang, S. Z., Yu, S. M., Yu, D., Di, H. B.   +10 more
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