{"id":50,"date":"2013-06-13T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2013-09-23T21:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T04:44:58","slug":"highlight-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"Rehabilitate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can visual feedback of muscle activity be provided by computer games improve motor function after brain injury?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children with cerebral palsy (CP) and adults recovering from stroke or traumatic brain injury often have weak or poorly coordinated muscles in one arm and hand. In collaboration with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rehab.washington.edu\/education\/faculty\/nonproviderbios\/westcottmccoy.asp?view=\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Westcott-McCoy<\/a>\u00a0(Rehabilitation Medicine) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ee.washington.edu\/faculty\/otis_brian\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Otis<\/a>\u00a0(Electrical Engineering), we are investigating a novel treatment for brain injury where subjectsd receive augmented visual feedback of the activity of impaired muscles via a computer game interface. Thus users must contract and relax target muscles in coordinated patterns to control popular computer games (provided by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popcap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PopCap games<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Neurogame-Large.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-259 aligncenter\" alt=\"Neurogame Large\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Neurogame-Large.png\" width=\"528\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">NeuroGame therapy system used by children with cerebral palsy in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ctmoritz\/main\/Rios%20et%20al%20(2013%20Moritz%20NeuroGame%20Therapy%20CP).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Rios et al. 2013<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can visual feedback of muscle activity be provided by computer games improve motor function after brain injury? Children with cerebral palsy (CP) and adults recovering from stroke or traumatic brain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moritlab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}