Mindy L. Aisen, MD – Medical Director of CPIRF and Rancho Los Amigos Rehabilitation Hospita

CPIRF and Rancho Los Amigos Rehabilitation Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center will hold a focused retreat/workshop examining the role of commercially available and emerging technologies for improving motor performance, psycho-social function, cognitive/behavioral function, environmental control and means for extending treatment into the community setting. The neurological conditions to be discussed will be Cerebral Palsy, CP/Autism, Autism spectrum disorders, Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Traumatic Brain Injury, PTSD/motor impairments, epilepsy/electrophysiology.

The technologies to be discussed include: robotics, virtual reality, task specific therapy, robotic enhanced socialization, bidirectional broadband communication and monitoring in the community (for health, wellness, safety, continuing rehabilitation), and emerging techniques for using EEG/computer interfaces, and brain computer interfaces.

The  goal is to have industry, academic engineering and clinical researchers present methods and data; then develop cross disciplinary collaborative ideas and dialog to set the stage for new clinical trial development.
The workshop is scheduled for September 2-4, 2010 at the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, CA.  The proceedings of the meeting will be published as a supplement to the Journal of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.