Pre-Conference Summer School

The Summer School will be offered on the 14-15 of June and will be held at

Aalborg University
Department of Health Science and Technology
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7A, room A4-108
9220 Aalborg

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Neurorehabilitation - Recovery of Motor Function
Organizer: Dejan Popovic

The topic for this summer school follows the demands for improved rehabilitation and care of humans with special needs. The term neurorehabilitation is used in context of findings of researchers and clinicians that a training of the neural circuitry by means of various agents promotes long-term changes in the organization of the spinal and cortical structures in addition to strengthening of the peripheral structures and elimination of disuse effects.
At the end for the summer school the participants should be able to:

  1. Identify existing neurorehabilitation technologies for upper and lower extremities, their design choices and limitations
  2. Discuss key clinical results on various neurorehabilitation approaches
  3. Describe newer areas of future neurorehabilitation technologies to determine how best to tailor the technology to meet each patient's needs, and
  4. Understand assessment methods that allow studying of cortical plasticity.

The school is tailored for Ph.D. students, post doctoral fellows, clinicians with interest in neurorehabilitation methods and technology. Ph.D. students who pass the test will earn 2.0 ECTS.

The faculty of the School includes: Roger Enoka, University of Boulder, CO, U.S.A; Herbert Heyer, IfADo, Germany; Mario Manto, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Aalborg University, DK; Michael Voigt, Aalborg University, DK; Vittorio Sanguineti, University of Genova, Italy; Thierry Keller, FATRONIK, San Sebastian, Spain; Ole K. Andersen, Aalborg University, DK; Ljubomir Manola, The Netherlands; and Dejan B. Popovic, Aalborg University, DK.