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The effect of type 2 diabetes and diabetic peripheral neuropathy on predictive grip force control
This study investigated the impact of type 2 diabetes and diabetic peripheral neuropathy on grip force control during object manipulation. The study...
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Sensory Substitution: Visual Information via Haptics
Sensory substitution devices compensate for the lack of one sense, such as vision, by conveying information about a person’s environment through the...
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Audiovisual biofeedback amplifies plantarflexor adaptation during walking among children with cerebral palsy
BackgroundBiofeedback is a promising noninvasive strategy to enhance gait training among individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). Commonly, biofeedback...
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Self and caregiver report measurement of sensory features in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review of psychometric properties
BackgroundUnusual responses to sensory stimuli are considered a diagnostic symptom of autism spectrum disorder with mounting research efforts put...
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A low-cost transradial prosthesis controlled by the intention of muscular contraction
Persons with upper-limb amputations face severe problems due to a reduction in their ability to perform the activities of daily living. The...
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Force acquisition frequency is less impaired compared to grip strength or hand dexterity in individuals with chronic stroke
Despite numerous studies that show force regulation is impaired after stroke, two recent studies suggest that the ability to regulate submaximal,...
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Transient Receptor Potential Channels: Multiple Modulators of Peripheral Neuropathic Pain in Several Rodent Models
Neuropathic pain, a prevalent chronic condition in clinical settings, has attracted widespread societal attention. This condition is characterized by...
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Measuring Touch Sensitivity in an Aging Population
As we age, our touch sensitivity declines due to changes in the skin, receptors, afferent nerve fibers, and central nervous system. Aging also...
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Electroencephalography of Touch
Electroencephalography (EEG)Electroencephalography (EEG) is one of the major tools to non-invasively investigate cortical activationsActivations from...
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End-to-End ConvNet for Tactile Recognition Using Residual Orthogonal Tiling and Pyramid Convolution Ensemble
Tactile recognition enables robots identify target objects or environments from tactile sensory readings. The recent advancement of deep learning and...
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Somatosensory attentional modulations during pain-related movement execution
Pain serves to protect against bodily threat, and therefore initiates protective responses such as attending toward threat-relevant information....
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A cutaneous mechanoneural interface for neuroprosthetic feedback
Amputation destroys sensory end organs and does not provide an anatomical interface for cutaneous neuroprosthetic feedback. Here, we report the...
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USH2A is a Meissner’s corpuscle protein necessary for normal vibration sensing in mice and humans
Fingertip mechanoreceptors comprise sensory neuron endings together with specialized skin cells that form the end-organ. Exquisitely sensitive,...
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Robotic Systems in Surgery
Results of studies showing that surgery using the da Vinci robot (Intuitive Surgical, USA) has advantages over conventional methods for the radical...
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Modulatory Processes in Craniofacial Pain States
Pain is a common symptom associated with many disorders affecting the craniofacial tissues that include the teeth and their supporting structures,...
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In vivo lensless microscopy via a phase mask generating diffraction patterns with high-contrast contours
The simple and compact optics of lensless microscopes and the associated computational algorithms allow for large fields of view and the refocusing...
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Somatosensation
The somatosensory system enables organisms to feel, to ache, to chill, and, perhaps most importantly, to know which parts of the body are involved in...
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Obtaining Underwater Hearing Data for the Common Murre (Uria aalge)
Many species of seabirds dive to great depths and for prolonged intervals in pursuit of food, and they may therefore be affected by anthropogenic...
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Vincamine as an agonist of G-protein-coupled receptor 40 effectively ameliorates diabetic peripheral neuropathy in mice
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a common complication of diabetes, which has yet no curable medication. Neuroinflammation and mitochondrial...
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Methods of Somatosensory Attenuation
Self-generated touch feels less intense (and less ticklish) than an externally generated touch of the same intensity. Since the early 1970s,...