Emerging Therapies in Neurorehabilitation

Part I. Central Neurological Impairments

1. Emerging Perspectives in Stroke Rehabilitation
Guillermo Asín Prieto, Roberto Cano-de-la-Cuerda, Eduardo López-Larraz, Julien Metrot, Marco Molinari, Liesjet E. H. Dokkum

2. Emerging Rehabilitation in Cerebral Palsy
Stefan Lambrecht, Oiane Urra, Svetlana Grosu, Soraya Pérez Nombela

3. Spinal Cord Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease
Juan Pablo Romero-Muñoz, Francisco Miguel Rivas Montero, Ilaria Fojadelli, Romulo Fuentes

Part II. Spinal and Brain Plasticity

4. Spinal Cord Plasticity and Neuromodulation
Stefano Piazza, Johannes Brand, Carlos Escolano

5. Neural Interfaces as Tools for Studying Brain Plasticity
A. Aranceta-Garza, S. Kumpulainen, M. Canela-Repuela, D. Boere, Juan López Coronado, Teodoro García Egea, G. E. Francisco, J. L. Contreras-Vidal

6. Neuromodulation on Cerebral Activities
Sylvain Cremoux, Jaime Ibanez Pereda, Serdar Ates, Alessia Dessì

7. Challenges in Measurement of Spasticity in Neurological Disorders
Marta Pajaro-Blázquez, Pawel Maciejasz, John McCamley, Ivan Collantes-Vallar, Dorin Copaci, William Zev Rymer

8. Motor Control and Emerging Therapies for Improving Mobility in Patients with Spasticity
Sabata Gervasio, Catherine Macleod, Elisabeth Bravo Esteban-Herreros, Lin Meng, María Carratalá Tejada

Part III. Emerging Technologies

9. Reverse-Engineer the Brain: Perspectives and Challenges
Eloy Urendes Jiménez, Antonio Flores Caballero, Francisco Molina Rueda, Javier Iglesias Giménez, Roberto Oboe

10. Robotic Rehabilitation: Ten Critical Questions about Current Status and Future Prospects Answered by Emerging Researchers
Antonio J. del-Ama, Alicia Cuesta, Vijaykumar Rajasekaran, Fernando Trincado, HyunKi In, David Reinkensmeyer

11. Upper Limb Neuroprostheses: Recent Advances and Future Directions
Aikaterini D. Koutsou, Susanna Summa, Bilal Nasser, Josefina Gutierrez Martinez, Muthukumaran Thangaramanujam

12. BMIs for Motor Rehabilitation: Key Concepts and Challenges
Magdo Bortole, Marco Controzzi, Iolanda Pisotta, Andrés Úbeda

13. Virtual Reality
Max Ortiz-Catalan, Sharon Nijenhuis, Kurt Ambrosch, Thamar Bovend’Eerdt, Sebastian Koenig, Belinda Lange

14. Surface EMG in Neurorehabilitation and Ergonomics: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Filipe Barroso, Diana Ruiz Bueno, Juan Álvaro Gallego, Paola Jaramillo, Atilla Kilicarslan

Part IV. Hands-on Guides

15. Introduction to Low-Cost Motion-Tracking for Virtual Rehabilitation
Sebastian Koenig, Aitor Ardanza, Camilo Cortes, Alessandro Mauro, Belinda Lange

16. Human Movement Analysis with Inertial Sensors
Stefan Lambrecht, Antonio J. del-Ama

17. Design of Experiments for Bioengineers in Clinical Settings
Juan-Manuel Belda-Lois, Helios De Rosario Martínez

Keywords: Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Rehabilitation Medicine, Robotics and Automation, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control