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Designing Online Multiplayer Games with Haptically and Virtually Linked Tangible Robots to Enhance Social Interaction in Therapy

Pierre Dillenbourg, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Hala Khodr, Mehdi Akeddar

The social aspects of therapy and training are important for patients to avoid social isolation and must be considered when designing a platform, especially for home-based rehabilitation. We proposed an online version of the previously proposed tangible Pa ...

IEEE2022

Rethinking protein aggregation and drug discovery in neurodegenerative diseases: Why we need to embrace complexity?

Hilal Lashuel

More than a century has passed since pathological protein aggregates were first identified in the brains of patients with neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). Yet, we still do not have effective therapies to treat or slow the progression of these devastating ...

2021

Music influences vividness and content of imagined journeys in a directed visual imagery task

Steffen Alexander Herff, Gabriele Cecchetti, Ken Jacques Alfonso Deguernel

Directed, intentional imagination is pivotal for self-regulation in the form of escapism and therapies for a wide variety of mental health conditions, such anxiety and stress disorders, as well as phobias. Clinical application in particular benefits from i ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Clinical value of assessing motor performance in postacute stroke patients

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Fabien Massé

Background Rehabilitative treatment plans after stroke are based on clinical examinations of functional capacity and patient-reported outcomes. Objective information about daily life performance is usually not available, but it may improve therapy personal ...

BioMed Central2021

Neutrophils in the era of immune checkpoint blockade

Etienne Meylan, Julien Robert Rémi Faget

The immune checkpoint blockade-based immunotherapies are revolutionizing cancer management. Tumor-associated neutrophils (TANs) were recently highlighted to have a pivotal role in modulating the tumor microenvironment and the antitumor immune response. How ...

BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP2021

Update on yesterday's dose-Use of delivery log-files for daily adaptive proton therapy (DAPT)

Marco Matter

In daily adaptive proton therapy (DAPT), the treatment plan is re-optimized on a daily basis. It is a straightforward idea to incorporate information from the previous deliveries during the optimization to refine this daily proton delivery. A feedback sign ...

2020

Multidisciplinary Approach to Treat Erectile Dysfunction

Mikaël Nils Sturny

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a widespread disease affecting approximately 20% of men. With a rising incidence due to the global ageing of the world population, it is estimated that over 322 million patients will be affected in 2025. While not being a lifet ...

EPFL2020

Gene replacement therapy provides benefit in an adult mouse model of Leigh syndrome

Johan Auwerx

Mutations in nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes are responsible for a broad spectrum of disorders among which Leigh syndrome is the most common in infancy. No effective therapies are available for this severe disease mainly because of the limited capabili ...

2020

Gait analysis in children with cerebral palsy: bridging the gap between the laboratory and real life

Lena Carcreff

Like 17 million people worldwide, an individual with cerebral palsy (CP) does not have the opportunity to walk harmoniously in society due to long-life impairments in movement and posture. The natural course of CP can be modulated by treatments and therapi ...

EPFL2020

Synthetic 3D scaffolds for cancer immunotherapy

Li Tang, Armand Kurum, Min Gao

Recent clinical success of systemic cancer immunotherapy has paved the way for the next-generation therapeutics. Nevertheless, cancer immunotherapies, in particular combination therapies, are associated in some cases with severe side effects and low respon ...

2019

Combined rehabilitation promotes recovery of motor functionality in a mouse model of stroke

Silvestro Micera, Maria Pasquini

Neuro-rehabilitative research is developing novel strategies to enhance the effectiveness of therapies after stroke by using a combination of physical and plasticizing treatments 1-3. Previous studies have shown that repeated optogenetics stimulation of ne ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

System for personalized robotic therapy and related methods

Silvestro Micera, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Elvira Pirondini, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

The present invention provides an apparatus and a method able to estimate motor improvement in real-time during three-dimensional rehabilitation tasks and to consequently dynamically personalize the therapy.The method can be carried out by a computer progr ...

2019

Tumour exosomal CEMIP protein promotes cancer cell colonization in brain metastasis

Etienne Meylan, Loïc Steiner, Yuan Liu, Gonçalo Rodrigues

The development of effective therapies against brain metastasis is currently hindered by limitations in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving it. Here we define the contributions of tumour-secreted exosomes to brain metastatic colonization ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Schwann cells ER-associated degradation contributes to myelin maintenance in adult nerves and limits demyelination in CMT1B mice

Maurizio Molinari, Francesca Bianchi

In the peripheral nervous system (PNS) myelinating Schwann cells synthesize large amounts of myelin protein zero (P0) glycoprotein, an abundant component of peripheral nerve myelin. In humans, mutations in P0 cause the demyelinating Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1B ...

2019

Genetics of human susceptibility to active and latent tuberculosis: present knowledge and future perspectives

Jacques Fellay, Nimisha Chaturvedi

Tuberculosis is an ancient human disease, estimated to have originated and evolved over thousands of years alongside modern human populations. Despite considerable advances in disease control, tuberculosis remains one of the world's deadliest communicable ...

2018

Combinatorial targeting of angiogenesis with inducers of autophagy in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme

Julie Laetitia Scotton

Malignant gliomas represent 80% of tumors developing in the central nervous system, with 50% being glioblastomas (GBM), the most aggressive form of the disease. The benefit from current therapies is very limited, the overall 5-year survival rate of patient ...

EPFL2018

More Medicines for Tuberculosis: Fuelling Drug Discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Shi-Yan Caroline Foo

Tuberculosis (TB), whose etiological agent is Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), has plagued humanity since antiquity. Even with chemotherapy available today, TB is the leading cause of death due to an infectious disease. Modern day factors, suc ...

EPFL2018

T cell–induced CSF1 promotes melanoma resistance to PD1 blockade

Michele De Palma, George Coukos, Krisztian Homicsko, Sina Nassiri, Natacha Anne-Sophie Bordry, Esther Danenberg, Laure Tillé, Christophe Martignier

Colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF1) is a key regulator of monocyte/macrophage differentiation that sustains the protumorigenic functions of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs). We show that CSF1 is expressed in human melanoma, and patients with metastatic m ...

2018

Method for quantitative measurement of a biomarker by in situ immunofluorescence and uses thereof

Martinus Gijs, Ata Tuna Ciftlik, Diego Gabriel Dupouy, Déborah Heintze

The invention relates to a method for quantitative measurement of a biomarker by in situ immunofluorescence and uses thereof. In particular, the invention relates to a method which is a useful tool for use in the field of diagnosis, prevention and/or treat ...

2017

Wearable systems for grasp rehabilitation after stroke

Andrea Crema

Stroke is the leading cause of long term disability, causing both motor and cognitive impairments. Stroke impacts both motor and somatosensory capabilities of the individual, causing distorted perception of the environment and of the body. Consequently per ...

EPFL2017