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Potential for new technologies in clinical practice. Curr Opin Neurol. 2010 Oct 18; Authors: Burridge JH, Hughes AM PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Cost-effective neurorehabilitation is essential owing to financial constraints on healthcare resources. Technologies have the potential to contribute but without strong clinical evidence are unlikely to be widely reimbursed. This review presents evidence of new technologies since 2008 and identifies barriers to translation of technologies into clinical practice. RECENT FINDINGS: Technology has not been shown to be superior to intensively matched...

Neurocognitive systems related to real-world prospective memory. PLoS One . 2010;5(10): Authors: Kalpouzos G, Eriksson J, Sjölie D, Molin J, Nyberg L BACKGROUND: Prospective memory (PM) denotes the ability to remember to perform actions in the future. It has been argued that standard laboratory paradigms fail to capture core aspects of PM. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We combined...

Dance Robot LIVE! is a performance recently shown at the  Digital Content Expo in Tokyo. The performance features AIST's feminine  HRP-4C robot and four humans. The routine was produced by...

The September issue of Nature Neuroscience has an editorial about the use of microfinance for scientific research . The editorial is a sign of growing interest from the research community...

Via Augmented Times This video shows the results achieved in the paper "Build Your World and Play In It: Interacting with Surface Particles on Complex Objects" presented at the conference...