Opendata, web and dolomites

REBoT SIGNED

Re-Empower the BOdy after Tetraplegia.

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 REBoT project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the REBoT project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "REBoT" about.

dual    structural    supra    rehabilitative    brain    cord    bmi    electromyography    neuro    turn    limited    sensorimotor    bypass    muscular    assistive    recovery    prostheses    training    assistant    interfaces    arms    move    remodelling    spinal    brings    interrelationships    corticospinal    robotic    manipulated    innovative    reorganization    hypothesis    harness    transcranial    injury    personalized    robot    function    plastic    body    contribution    voluntary    wheelchair    interrupted    motor    cursor    exploited    independence    density    map    machine    consists    intervention    progressive    combination    magnetic    sci    mri    life    quality    induces    connections    limb    understand    nervous    cns    subcortical    upper    rewiring    levels    arm    interface    leveraging    muscles    interact    stimulation    cortex    rebot    planar    cortical    sensitivity    practicing    functional    external    cervical    residual    shoulders    final    dependent    physical    learning    re    circuits    skill    virtual    movements   

Project "REBoT" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA 

Organization address
address: VIA MOREGO 30
city: GENOVA
postcode: 16163
website: www.iit.it

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country Italy [IT]
 Total cost 244˙269 €
 EC max contribution 244˙269 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-GF
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-02-01   to  2021-01-31

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA IT (GENOVA) coordinator 244˙269.00
2    REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO US (CHICAGO) partner 0.00

Map

 Project objective

REBoT will move its steps towards the understanding of the interrelationships between training-induced brain reorganization and sensorimotor function after cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The final goal is to promote a “rewiring” of the cortex (or supra-spinal circuits) to bypass pathways interrupted by SCI through a progressive adaptation of the rehabilitative intervention. REBoT’ s concept is based on the hypothesis that practicing upper-body control of personalized physical or virtual interfaces brings about plastic changes in the sensorimotor pathways that can be exploited to design more effective and tailored assistive devices and neuro-prostheses. These, in turn, will contribute to increase the independence and therefore the quality of life after SCI.

REBoT's highly innovative approach consists in leveraging residual movements of arms and shoulders with the dual objective of (i) strengthening residual voluntary control of the upper limb, and (ii) promoting specific functional and structural changes in the nervous system. For doing so, REBoT will use a Body Machine Interface (BMI) that allows the users to interact with various external virtual (i.e. a cursor or a virtual wheelchair) and physical devices (i.e. a planar robotic arm and a robot assistant) through movements of the arms and shoulders. The BMI will be manipulated to harness the contribution of specific muscles so as to enhance the user's residual motor abilities. REBoT will evaluate the activity-dependent reorganization at all levels of the CNS using MRI-driven Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in combination with high-density electromyography. This novel approach has the potential to identify changes at muscular, corticospinal and cortical level with a high sensitivity and limited cost. The goal is to understand (i) what specific changes motor skill learning/re-learning induces in the CNS and (ii) how remodelling of cortical and subcortical connections map into functional recovery.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "REBOT" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "REBOT" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.1.3.2.)

RAMBEA (2019)

Realistic Assessment of Historical Masonry Bridges under Extreme Environmental Actions

Read More  

PROSPER (2019)

Politics of Rulemaking, Orchestration of Standards, and Private Economic Regulations

Read More  

IRF4 Degradation (2019)

Using a novel protein degradation approach to uncover IRF4-regulated genes in plasma cells

Read More