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1-Immersive virtual reality for neurorehabilitation

In this line of research, the objective is to develop and validate the next generation of digitalized and gamified tools in immersive virtual reality to study, assess, and train attentional and executive functions in patients with acquired brain injury in collaboration with NeuroScape.

 

Experts & collaborators

Internal collaborators

  • Sonia Crottaz-Herbette
  • David Zeugin
  • Nicolas Farron
  • Loredana Catinari
  • Camille Pestiaux
  • Charlène Moser
  • Patricia Poma

External collaborators

  • Daniel Perez Marcos (MindMaze SA)
  • Yann Perret (MindMaze SA)

 

Funding

 

Selected publications

Wilf, M., Dupuis, C., Nardo, D., Huber, D., Sander, S., Al-Kaar, J., Haroud, M., Perrin, H., Fornari, E., Crottaz-Herbette, S., & Serino, A. (2023). Virtual reality-based sensorimotor adaptation shapes subsequent spontaneous and naturalistic stimulus-driv Wilf, M., Cerra Cheraka, M., Jeanneret, M., Ott, R., Perrin, H., Crottaz-Herbette, S., & Serino, A. (2021). Combined virtual reality and haptic robotics induce space and movement invariant sensorimotor adaptation. Neuropsychologia, 150, 107692. Perez-Marcos, D., Ronchi, R., Giroux, A., Brenet, F., Serino, A., Tadi, T., & Blanke, O. (2023). An immersive virtual reality system for ecological assessment of peripersonal and extrapersonal unilateral spatial neglect. Journal of neuroengineering and re

2- Assessing body representation disorders

In this line of research, we investigate the prevalence, characteristics and mechanisms of disorders of and biases in body representations. We apply a multimodal approach including psychophysics, questionnaires, computational modelling and neuroimaging. The patient population mainly targeted is stroke and multiple sclerosis, with healthy participants that serve as controls.

 

Experts & collaborators

Internal collaborators

  • Michela Bassolino
  • Stéphanie Konik
  • Luca Rossi

External collaborators

  • Ayla Gay (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)
  • Gaia Risso (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)
  • Isabella Martinelli (Villa Beretta)
  • Franco Molteni (Villa Beretta)
  • Silvestro Micera (EPFL)
  • Olaf Blanke (EPFL)

 

Funding

 

Selected publications

Bassolino, M., Franza, M., Guanziroli, E., Sorrentino, G., Canzoneri, E., Colombo, M., Crema, A., Bertoni, T., Mastria, G., Vissani, M., Sokolov, A. A., Micera, S., Molteni, F., Blanke, O., & Serino, A. (2022). Body and peripersonal space representations Crema, A., Bassolino, M., Guanziroli, E., Colombo, M., Blanke, O., Serino, A., Micera, S., & Molteni, F. (2022). Neuromuscular electrical stimulation restores upper limb sensory-motor functions and body representations in chronic stroke survivors. Med (Ne Bassolino, M. and A. Serino (2022). Representation and Perception of the Body in Space. Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, 2nd edition (Second Edition). Oxford, Elsevier: 640-656.

3 - Lower-limb exoskeleton for neurorehabilitation of locomotion

The purpose of this project is to co-develop with the Autonomyo start-up company a set of clinically relevant and engaging gamified activities for the rehabilitation of locomotion in neurological patients. Furthermore, we study whether and how walking incapacity affects higher-order cognitive functions such as spatial navigation, episodic memory and decision-making, and whether such functions can be restored using gait rehabilitation with the exoskeleton.

 

Experts & collaborators

Internal collaborators

  • Dionys Rutz
  • Nicolas Vial
  • Eugénie Demeure

External collaborators

  • Amalric Ortlieb (Autonomyo SA)
  • Mohamed Bouri (EPFL

 

Funding

 

Selected publications

Swank, C., Sikka, S., Driver, S., Bennett, M., & Callender, L. (2020). Feasibility of integrating robotic exoskeleton gait training in inpatient rehabilitation. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 15(4), 409-417. A. Ortlieb, M. Bouri, R. Baud and H. Bleuler, "An assistive lower limb exoskeleton for people with neurological gait disorders," 2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), London, UK, 2017, pp. 441-446, doi: 10.1109/ICORR.2017.80092 Preston, E., Ada, L., Stanton, R., Mahendran, N., & Dean, C. M. (2021). Prediction of Independent Walking in People Who Are Nonambulatory Early After Stroke : A Systematic Review. Stroke, 52(10), 3217 3224. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.032345
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