Current Research Projects

Project Leader Project Title
Dietz Neuronal control of movement: reflexes, programs and supraspinal influence
Spinal locomotor circuits: organization and repair after injury

Completed Research Projects

Project Leader Project Title
Bolliger Assessment with the gait-training robot Lokomat: From automated to instrumented training
Assessment Tools for the Robotic Orthosis Lokomat: From automated to instrumented training
Brügger Curt Phantom sensations after deafferentation/deefferentation and their simulation in healthy subjects: visual-sensimotor interactions
Colombo Adaptation of the driven gait orthosis "Lokomat" to the locomotor training in hemiplegic patients
Upgrading of the biofeedback for the driven gait orthosis Lokomat: improved motivation of patient and documentation of the training (L-WALK)
Colombo Lünenburger Biofeedback system for the driven gait orthosis "Lokomat"
Curt Functional and neuronal recovery in incomplete SCI
Improving locomotor functions in spinal cord injured patients
Clinical Neurophysiology and spinal cord injury
Curt Dietz Kollias High resolution anatomical, physiological and functional MR imaging of the spinal cord in humans and applications in patients with SCI
Dietz Neuronal control of movements: Reflexes, programs and supraspinal control
From spinal shock to the spastic syndrome: Modifiability of spinal neuronal centres by physical and pharmaceutical interventions.
Neuronal control of movement: reflexes, programs and supraspinal influence
Behaviour of locomotor activity in the isolated human spinal cord
Spinal cord injury
Perturbations during walking in the Driven Gait Orthosis Lokomat
Spinal cord function after spinal shock
Hotz Boendermaker Simple and complex foot movement representation in the human brain and its plasticity in spinal cord injured patients
Juenemann Schurch REBEC: Restoration of bladder function by neuroprosthesis
Mangold Electromyographic evaluation of the ERIGO with healthy subjects and spinal cord injured patients.
Maric Clinical Study CATI355A2103
Levodopa in combination with physiotherapy after incomplete spinal cord injury: a prospective, randomized, double-blind cross-over study.
Mehnert The quest for an objective measure of bladder sensibility: a new approach using heart rate variability and skin conductance level analysis in urodynamics
Evaluation of Sympathetic Skin Responses and Heart Rate Variability as Objective Measures of Bladder Sensation - a Double Blind Third Party Open Placebo Controlled Randomised Study Using a Single Dose of Tolterodine in Patients With Idiopathic Overactive Bladder and Healthy Volunteers
Cortical representation of bladder sensations: Does bladder cooling involve the same supraspinal network as bladder distention – an fMRI study
Reitz The effect of tolterodine on afferent pathways arising from the urinary bladder - a urodynamic study in healthy humans and patients with overactive bladder
Schurch Reorganisation of cortical representation of somatic and autonomic brain areas related to bladder control in spinal cord injured patients
Urodynamical and electrophysiological assessment of normal and impaired human bladder function
Data collection on treatment details of patients injected with BoNT-A (Botox) for oiveractive bladder at centers in Switzerland and Austria
Van Hedel Validation and clinical implementation of assessment tools developed by the Clinical Initiative in subjects with a spinal cord injury
Veltink NeuralPRO

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