Media
WVU Today July 2022
Written by Jessica Wilmoth
WVU Today magazine features NERL and NEL our participation in the Neuroscience summer program to connect diverse students with WVU researchers. The full story is here.
Written by Mark Matthews
The article describes the efforts of Ukrainian academics all over the world to help people in Ukraine after the brutal full-scale invasion by Russia. The story mentions our outreach efforts conducting remote summer schools and workshops for Ukrainian students.
WVU Magazine Fall 2015
Written by Jake Stump
Photographed by Raymond Thompson Jr.
WVU Magazine features NERL and NEL in a story on our work with stroke survivors. You can read the full PDF article attached below.
WVU HSC Inside View 06-30-2014
The Inside View newsletter featured Erienne and her work with low-cost motion capture, which she recently presented at Microsoft Research’s Measuring Gait and Balance Conference in Seattle.
LIINC program at WVU
Monday, 12 Aug 2013
The Linking Innovation Industry and Commercialization (LIINC) program at WVU has interviewed Erienne about her experience promoting automated impairment assessment system we are developing: video 1, video 2.
Posters on the Hill event in Washington, DC
Tuesday, 24 Apr 2012
Nikolai Radzinski presented his summer research at NERL at a Posters on the Hill event in Washington, DC organized by the Council on Undergraduate Research. The event was showcasing undergraduate research to US Senators and Representatives and their staffers. Nikolai met and described our research to Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, and staffers of WV Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, and WV Representatives David McKinley, Nick Rahall, and Shelley Capito.
Kinecting Patients & Home
Written by Alex Lang
Tuesday, 2 Aug 2011
Researchers use gaming system to explore home rehab.
Video games have come a long way since the days of "Pong", and now they could be used to help patients battling serious physical conditions.
WVU researchers are in the beginning stages of trying to develop the Xbox 360 Kinect as a tool to help victims of stroke and other neurological diseases as part of their rehabilitation.
Click here for more details about this project.
Public lecture
Wednesday, 27 Jul 2011 18:30
More Than a Game: Using Video Games in Stroke Recovery. Science on Tap, Morgantown, WV, USA.
WVU Researchers Using Video Games to Help Patients
Written by Ben Katko
Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:15
Researchers at WVU are using video games to help patients with their rehabilitation who've suffered from nervous system trauma.
The plan is to use the XBOX Kinect motion capture system to study how the brain controls movement.
Researchers aren't only using it to make rehab more fun, but they'll use it to help better understand what happens when parts of the brain are affected by something like a stroke or spinal cord damage.
