Special Session – Stimulating CNS…

Special Session: Stimulating central nervous system as an adjuvant treatment to functional electrical stimulation therapy
Organizer: Anirban Dutta, Dept. Psychology and Neurosciences, IfADo– Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Germany

Speakers:
15mn presentation + 5mn questions/transition

Dr. med. Abhijit Das – AMRI Institute of Neurosciences, AMRI Hospital, Mukundapur, Kolkata, India “Cerebellar pathways in post-stroke lower limb functional recovery and noninvasive brain stimulation.”

Prof. Dr. Ing. Uttama Lahiri – Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India Paper 6 – Deepesh Kumar, Sunny Verma, Sutapa Bhattacharya and Uttama Lahiri. “Audio-Visual Stimulation in Conjunction with Function Electrical Stimulation to Address Upper Limb and Lower Limb Movement Disorder.”

Dr. Makii Muthalib – Senior Research Associate – Human Neurophysiology, EuroMov, University of Montpellier, France Paper 66 –Makii Muthalib, Marco Ferrari, Valentina Quaresima, Graham Kerr and Stephane Perrey. “Neuromuscular electrical stimulation and voluntary wrist extension movements elicit similar sensorimotor cortex activation: a continuous-wave fNIRS study.”

Dr. Ing. Anirban Dutta – Research Scientist, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany Paper 21 – Águida Foerster, Michael A. Nitsche and Anirban Dutta. “Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation for lower limb visuomotor myoelectric control.”