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Robotics for treating stroke: From neurosurgery to neurorehabilitation, to neuroprosthetics

When: December 9, 2021 – 11-13:00h CST

Join Zoom Meeting: https://umn-private.zoom.us/j/2809832633
Meeting ID: 280 983 2633

Vitor Mendes Pereira
Director of Endovascular Research and Innovation
St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto

Lorenzo Masia
Professor of Medical Technology
Heidelberg University

David Reinkensmeyer
Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Anatomy & Neurobiology
University of California at Irvine

Riki Banerjee
Vice President of R&D Synchron

Neurorobotics Internal Collision - March 11, 2021

The Neurorobtics Consortium is happy to announce the first internal collision of 2021 on Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 12:00 pm. “Challenges and opportunities in scaling down robotic catheters to access ischemic stroke.”

Presenters include Gillian McDonald, (PhD Candidate of the Medical Robotics and Devices Laboratory) and Enio Perez, MD, MPH (Innovation Fellow at the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center).

This internal collision will be held virtually via Zoom. The goal of the NRC’s Internal Collisions is to offer an informal setting to spread ideas and research regarding the science of intelligent robotics to improve neurological care within the University of Minnesota and its partners.

Zoom Meeting: https://umn.zoom.us/j/96164401468

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Use of robots to evaluate neural plasticity after stroke: Applications in humans and in non-human primates

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August 20, 2020

Stephen Scott, PhD, described his development of the Kinarm robotic system initially used to study the neural basis of voluntary control. He will describe the development of a suite of behavioral tasks to assess arm sensory and motor function and tasks to explore cognitive function and its interaction with the motor system. While these tasks were initially prototyped to quantify impairments with stroke, he will also describe how these robot-based tasks have also been used to assess a range of other neurological diseases/injuries.

Sean Dukelow, MD, PhD, FRCPC, reviewed the use of robotic tools to assess sensory and motor impairments in the upper extremity after stroke, demonstrate linkages between stroke related impairments and specific regions of the brain and briefly discuss the use of robotics as a therapeutic tool for the arm.

Rachel Hawe, DPT, PhD, discussed how their research group has used robotics to quantify motor, sensory, visuospatial, and executive function impairments in children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy due to perinatal stroke. She will also discuss the RoboCP trial that combines robotic rehabilitation and non-invasive brain stimulation to target sensorimotor impairments in children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy.

Robotics and the Frontiers of Neurosurgery

Garnet Sutherland, MSC, MC, FRCSC
November 7, 2019

Professor of neurosurgery at the University of Calgary and director of image-guided medical robotics programs. His NeuroArm is the world’s first robot capable of performing neurosurgery on a patient inside an MR imaging machine. The technology promises to make surgeries less invasive and more standardized, thereby improving outcomes and reducing health care costs.

News post: https://med.umn.edu/news-events/renowned-canadian-neurosurgeonscientist-visits-u-sparking-inspiration-and-collaboration

Computational Neurorobotics

Jeff Krichmar, PhD
Professor, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
University of California, Irvine (UCI)

June 6, 2019

Krichmar is a Professor in UCI’s Departments of Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science, and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. His research interests include neurorobotics, embodied cognition, biologically plausible models of learning and memory, neuromorphic applications and tools, and the effect of neural architecture on neural function. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and the Society for Neuroscience.

News post: U of M consortium well positioned to help leverage discoveries in neurorobotics – thanks to regular “collisions

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