BACKGROUND: Modafinil is a wake-promoting drug and has been widely used for daytime sleepiness in patients with narcolepsy and other sleep disorders. A recent case series reported that daily oral modafinil alleviated hypercapnic respiratory failur...
Medical Engineering & Physics 38(11) 1172-1175 2016年11月 [査読有り]
We investigated whether untriggered neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) can increase the effectiveness of shoulder and elbow robotic training in patients with hemiparesis. Thirty subacute stroke patients were randomly equally allocated to ...
Takanori Sato   Isao Nambu   Kotaro Takeda   Takatsugu Aihara   Okito Yamashita   Yuko Isogaya   Yoshihiro Inoue   Yohei Otaka   Yasuhiro Wada   Mitsuo Kawato   Masa-Aki Sato   Rieko Osu   
NeuroImage 141 120-132 2016年11月 [査読有り]
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is used to measure cerebral activity because it is simple and portable. However, scalp-hemodynamics often contaminates fNIRS signals, leading to detection of cortical activity in regions that are actua...
Journal of Ergonomic Technology 16(1) 15-23 2016年11月 [査読有り]
Purpose: We compared the accuracy and response times for a hand mental rotation task (HMRT) in patients with hemiplegic stroke in order to investigate performance strategies adopted when patients were required to determine whether a presented pict...
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 952 1-8 2016年8月 [査読有り]
This review tackles the unresolved issue of the existence of oxygen sensor in the body. The sensor that would respond to changes in tissue oxygen content, possibly along the hypoxia-normoxia-hyperoxia spectrum, rather than to a given level of oxyg...
Tanioka T, Yasuhara Y, Osaka K, Ito H, Locsin RC(担当:分担執筆, 範囲:Chapter III - Demand for human health care and robotic rehabilitation welfare services among the current oldest and incoming elderly in Japanese society / Orand A, Takeda K, Tanabe S)