On the analysis of movement smoothness

S Balasubramanian, A Melendez-Calderon… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2015 - Springer
Quantitative measures of smoothness play an important role in the assessment of
sensorimotor impairment and motor learning. Traditionally, movement smoothness has been …

The angular gyrus computes action awareness representations

C Farrer, SH Frey, JD Van Horn, E Tunik, D Turk… - Cerebral …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Involvement of the right inferior parietal area in action awareness was investigated while
taking into account differences in the conscious experiences of one's own actions; …

Upper extremity functional evaluation by Fugl-Meyer assessment scoring using depth-sensing camera in hemiplegic stroke patients

WS Kim, S Cho, D Baek, H Bang, NJ Paik - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Virtual home-based rehabilitation is an emerging area in stroke rehabilitation. Functional
assessment tools are essential to monitor recovery and provide current function-based …

The interaction of visual and proprioceptive inputs in pointing to actual and remembered targets in Parkinson's disease

SV Adamovich, MB Berkinblit, W Hening, J Sage… - Neuroscience, 2001 - Elsevier
We previously reported that Parkinson's disease patients could point with their eyes closed
as accurately as normal subjects to targets in three-dimensional space that were initially …

Developmental features of rapid aiming arm movements across the lifespan

JH Yan, JR Thomas, GE Stelmach… - Journal of motor …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Using a lifespan approach, the authors investigated developmental features of the control of
ballistic aiming arm movements by manipulating movement complexity, response …

Impairment of pronation, supination, and body co-ordination in reach-to-grasp tasks in human Parkinson's disease (PD) reveals homology to deficits in animal models

IQ Whishaw, O Suchowersky, L Davis, J Sarna… - Behavioural brain …, 2002 - Elsevier
Animal (monkey, rat, mouse) models are widely used to investigate degenerative processes
and potential therapeutic treatments for human Parkinson's disease (PD). One task that has …

Parkinsons disease and the control of size and speed in handwriting

AWA Van Gemmert, HL Teulings, JL Contreras-Vidal… - Neuropsychologia, 1999 - Elsevier
This experiment investigated whether Parkinsons disease (PD) patients experience
problems in producing stroke size, stroke duration or both, in a handwriting task. Thirteen PD …

The New Jersey Institute of Technology Robot-Assisted Virtual Rehabilitation (NJIT-RAVR) system for children with cerebral palsy: a feasibility study

Q Qiu, DA Ramirez, S Saleh, GG Fluet… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2009 - Springer
Background We hypothesize that the integration of virtual reality (VR) with robot assisted
rehabilitation could be successful if applied to children with hemiparetic CP. The combined …

Parkinson's disease patients undershoot target size in handwriting and similar tasks

AWA Van Gemmert, CH Adler… - Journal of Neurology …, 2003 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objectives: Previous research suggested that people with Parkinson's disease are able to
increase handwriting stroke size up to 1.5 cm without an increase of stroke duration; …

Disruptions in the reach-to-grasp actions of Parkinson's patients

JL Alberts, M Saling, CH Adler, GE Stelmach - Experimental brain research, 2000 - Springer
Previous research has shown that Parkinson's-disease (PD) patients produce irregular
movement paths during a rapid arm pointing task. The aim of this study was to investigate …