About EFRR The European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR) is the major multidisciplinary rehabilitation research forum in Europe. Originally formed in 1983, it has members from all parts of Europe. The purpose of EFRR is to advance research and education in biopsychosocial aspects of rehabilitation. The outcomes of such research are implemented and disseminated with
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This week is the EFRR conference. I have a short "free paper" to deliver on Saturday 25 September
Given an inherent subjective nature, emotions have long been a nearly impenetrable topic for scientific research. Affective neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp explains a modern approach to emotions, and how taking seriously the emotions of other animals might soon improve the lives of millions.
Jaak Panksepp introduced the concept of Affective Neuroscience in 1990, consisting of an overarching vision of how mammalian brains generate experienced affective states in animals, as effective models for fathoming the primal evolutionary sources of emotional feelings in human beings. This work has implications for further developments in Biological Psychiatry, ranging from an understanding of the underlying brain disorders, to new therapeutic strategies. Panksepp is a Ph.D. Professor and Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University. His scientific contributions include more than 400 papers devoted to the study of basic emotional and motivational processes of the mammalian brain. He has conducted extensive research on brain and bodily mechanisms of feeding and energy-balance regulation, sleep physiology, and most importantly the study of emotional processes, including associated feelings states, in other animals.
This talk was given November 9, 2013 in Seattle at TEDxRainier, a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.
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A 2013 TED talk that summarises a way of thinking about 7 primal emotions - I am interested in the link between these and values - and you might think it strange i've curated this onto an assistive technology page - but what i've been thinking about, perhaps we could call an "Affective Neuroscience (approach to)/of rehabilitation", is to think a lot more about emotion and values. Mark Solms has written lots about this and psychoanalysis, and it's been great to hear him talk about this recently. I've been pondering how contextual behavioural science and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy interact with Assistive Technology. So my short talk to EFRR just hints at this with ongoing research I'll write about more in the future.
The Courage Network brings together people affected by, and living with, neurological conditions, with the world of research, as part of an innovative project initially funded by UK Research and…
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i really wanted to make a clear point about the need to develop rehabilitation services (and research to evaluate them) with our service users and their families
Providing holistic technological solutions for neurological rehabilitation. We have created Alfred, an app supporting individuals, families and professionals.
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Here we see a step change in assistive technology and I'm delighted to have chance to have a small part to play in the team developing this. Great news that they have just won the UKABIF Innovation Award
Anna does lots of interesting work in Speech and Language Therapy for people with aphasia, including assessment of gestures, but in this talk I briefly mentioned her work on Eva Park https://evapark.city.ac.uk/
I have just recorded my short talk for this #Brain2021 Congress in Brazil I'll use this scoop.it page to collect together many of the things that I mention, with some extra commentary where relevant! I encourage discussion over on instagram/twitter (@drandrewbateman) or LinkedIn
this is an exciting new paper for me, first because it was a great privilege to collaborate with the team at the MRC-CBU, second the results are really intriguing and thirdly, it's the first time I've been involved in something that has gone straight to medRxiv
well conceived website, but the "experts" have got more trawling to do, and arguably there'd be benefit in using a framework for categorising the types of apps. The 'thinking' boxes are paying a lot of attention to games that i think are at best of trivial benefit to survivors with brain injury, maybe distracting, and really weak evidence
@Narinder_Kapur has produced some new guides for voice assistants - they are available via amazon and I know funds raised go to a good cause. https://t.co/Y94XZdsCZ4
Grounded in a holistic approach, this state-of-the-art workbook provides tools and resources for supporting clients with nonprogressive brain injury. Effective strategies are described for building skills and teaching compensatory strategies in such areas as attention, memory, executive functions, mood, and communication.
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I mention this work book at the beginning of the talk. It remains for me a useful resource, and I think there may be a Portuguese translation available, my driving thought has been to question what of the ideas in here can we get directly to our patients? it has been exciting to explore this with our students in the School of Health and Social Care as they have contributed to the development of a (draft) virtual learning environment for people living with brain injury. How we could go from where we are to a full-on MOOC is a question occupying my thoughts.
Sherry Arnstein's Ladder of Citizen Participation is one of the most influential models in the field of democratic public participation.
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I hadn't seen this history of the ladder of participation before today. In my recent lecture to the Brazilian congress, I cited the https://www.ndti.org.uk/ as a source of information but now I've read this, I wish I'd tagged ths too. Well here's an after-the-lecture asset, although in the figure I used, Co-design and co=produce are replacements for delegated power and citizen control "rungs". That's quite a big difference to reflect on! So many assistive technology designers omit, or sufficiently use inclusive design approaches.
but "Alfred" from Neumind and BEST suite are both interesting for their potential to alleviate problems caused by executive function challenges. Brain in Hand and NeuroProactive both offer channels to connect therapists and patients remotely.
and Goal Management Training - GMT kind of fits here, i think the print manuals are really well set out and i'm looking forward to having chance to see the digital version in action
a new collection of resources, first up, a recording I couldn't see how to upload directly to scoop.it, so I have put the link to the recording on a little wakelet page - as the title suggests I might let that page grow some more! As I mention in the talk, I've been particularly impressed by this suite of tools to help people overcome consequences of cognitive impairment -
Dr Jordi Asher is in the School of Psychology and is doing really interesting work on hemianopia and augmented reality. It has been really great moving to Essex and meeting so many people interested in different aspects of neurorehabilitation
I finish the talk mentioning colleagues I'm working with at University of Essex. I wonder if the congress will trigger more international collaborations? The work with Anirban is very interesting because this involves an exoskeleton for upper limb paralysis, and brain computer interface technology.
Research shows they do, but how health care providers should use them isn’t quite so clear.
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helpful article in pointing toward some of the research challenges ahead. In a context of daily new apps being produced, I think the challenge is connecting people to the solutions that are emerging. Anyway a nice clear article
Emotions are an essential part of our lives. The goal of this app is to give you better insights into your emotions. Awareness and labeling of our emotions puts us in a better to position to control them and communicate them to others. Research suggests that labeling em…
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here's an interesting app to help people find the words to express the emotions they feel, something problematic for some people after brain injury
A very interesting prospect. I haven't yet had chance to play with one of these. Surely this has potential for people with agnosia and other visual perceptual deficits.I would love to hear from anyone who has used this gadget!
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This week is the EFRR conference. I have a short "free paper" to deliver on Saturday 25 September