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Traumatic injury or neurological diseases can significantly alter or impair the lifestyle of the afflicted individual. Driven by the needs of potential users, our engineers and scientists at the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems (ANS) are designing and developing technology to offset the effects of spinal cord injury, orthopedic injury, Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy.
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May 2012 – the Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation published: “Longitudinal Performance of a Surgically Implanted Neuroprosthesis for Lower Extremity Exercise, Standing, and Transfers after Spinal Cord Injury” by Ron Triolo (Case Western) and his collaborators, including ANS Director, Jimmy Abbas

March 2012 – the work of Narayanan Krishnamurthi and his collaborators at ANS was accepted for  publication in Cognitive Neurodynamics: “Deep Brain Stimulation Amplitude Alters Posture Shift Velocity in Parkinson’s Disease”

March 2012 – ANS Director, Jimmy Abbas, contributed his ideas about “Technology for mobility in SCI ten years from now” in a paper by lead author Michael Boninger that will appear in Spinal Cord 

March 2012 – the work of Charla Lindley and her colleagues at Methodist Rehabilitation Center (Jackson, MS) was accepted for publication in Gait & Posture: "Lower Limb Preference on Goal-Oriented Tasks in Unilateral Prosthesis Users"

February 2012 – a manuscript by Oliver Graudejus and his colleagues from Princeton was accepted for publication in Scripta Materialia: “Size dependent rupture strain of elastically stretchable metal conductors”

January 2012 – a paper published by Oliver Graudejus was awarded the “Best Paper Award for 2011” by the Journal of Electronic Materials.

January 2012 – a manuscript by Oliver Graudejus and his colleagues from Princeton was accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials: “Encapsulating elastically stretchable neural interfaces: yield, resolution, and recording/stimulation of neural activity”

December 2011 – Oliver Graudejus gave an invited talk on “Stretchable Microelectrodes for Biomedical Applications” at Tsingua University in Beijing, China

December 2011 – “Biohybrid Systems: Nerves, Interfaces, and Machines” – a book edited by ANS Founding Co-Director, Prof. Ranu Jung – will be available.

November 2011 – Oliver Graudejus gave an invited talk on at the Materials Research Society Meeting on “Understanding the fabrication process: Keys to cost effective, reproducible, and reliable stretchable neural interfaces”

November 2011 – Cathy Vuong will present her work on ‘Transforming Clinical Rehabilitation into Interactive Multimedia at the ACM Multimedia Conference in Scottsdale, AZ.

August 2011 – Mu Qiao and Prof. Devin Jindrich presented their work on the biomechanical analysis of maneuvering and on the design of an instrumented split-belt treadmill at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics in Long Beach.

August 2011 – congratulations to ANS Alumnus Dr. Seung-Jae Kim for his appointment as Assistant Professor at California Baptist University.

July 2011 – the work of Drs. Venugopal, Hamm, Crook and Jung on regulation of persistent inward currents after spinal cord injury was accepted for publication in the Journal of Neurophysiology

July 2011 – congratulations to Dr. Narayanan Krishnamurthi for his joint appointment as Research Program Manager, Parkinson’s Research at the Muhammad Ali Parkinson’s Center at Barrow Neurological Institute.

May 2011 – congratulations to 4 ANS students who completed their Honors Thesis at Barrett, The Honors College: Jeremy Jellish,, John Spanias, Shravan Sridhar, and Stuart Wente.

April 2011 – Prof. Abbas gave a presentation about on-going ANS projects at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto.

January 2011 – Dr. Krishnamurthi is collaborating with Claudia Murphy from the ASU School of Dance and and Erika Driver-Dunckley from Mayo Clinic Arizona on a new project investigating a dance-based movement program for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease

January 2011 – Prof. Jindrich’s paper on “Unconstrained three dimensional reaching in Rhesus monkeys” appeared in Experimental Brain Research.

January 2011 – congratulations to Prof. Ranu Jung on her new position as Wallace H. Coulter Eminent Scholars Chair and as Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University.

November,2010 – Prof. Abbas gave an invited presentation on “Smart Hybrid Biosystems in Prosthetics and Rehabilitation” at the IEEE BioCAS meeting in Paphos, Cyprus.

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Jimmy Abbas, PhD

Jimmy Abbas, PhD
"One of the hallmarks of biological systems is the ability to adapt. In our work, we mimic neurobiological systems in order to endow technology with the ability to adapt, and we use technology to maximize adaptations in neurobiological systems. With these approaches, we aim to promote functional adaptation after disability."

Ranu Jung, PhD

Ranu Jung, PhD
"Our goal is to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities by designing techniques to investigate, replace and repair damaged neural systems to enhance mobility and functionality. Whether a person has spinal cord injury, limb loss or Parkinson's disease, mobility and functionality mean independence."

 

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