GaitStablility

TRANSLATIONAL VR PARADIGMS FOR NEUROSCIENCE: FROM RODENTS TO HUMANS

Summary

Balance and gait stability mandatory for safe walking with a prosthesis after lower limb amputation. Limb position data with camera based marker systems as well as motion suits together center of pressure data, muscle (EMG) signals and brain (EEG) data will be recorded in volunteers as well as subjects after unilateral limb amputation. Methods of on-linear data analysis (e.g. entropic half-life) and artificial intelligence (e.g. Convolutional Neural Networks) will be applied to identify activation and compensation mechanism after unilateral amputation and extract features that describe and predict balance stability on the level of position, muscle activation and brain signals.