global burden of stroke is staggering (millions of strokes a year). Hemiparesis is one of the most common and disabling sequelae of stroke. In patients with immobile phantom limbs after amputation, vivid kinaesthetic sensations of movement can be evoked when the patient watches movement of the non-amputated hand or arm in a vertical parasagittal mirror. 1 Encouraged by a good initial result, 2 ...

This paper presents a novel approach to design robust source coupled logic for implementing ultra low power circuits. In this paper, we proposed two different source coupled logic structures and analyzed the performance of these structures with STSCL. The first design we used DTPMOS as load device and analyses the performance of DTSCL Logic with previous source coupled logic for ultra low power...

BACKGROUND Similar positive results (e.g. immediate decreases in stuttering frequency and a 60-80% recovery rate from stuttering) have been reported for numerous therapeutic protocols for treating childhood stuttering, many of which have been diametrically opposite in their orientations and implementations. For example, Johnson advocated indirect treatments that simply advocated refraining from...

Based on mirror neurons' properties, viewers are emotionally engaged when observing others - even when not actively interacting; therefore, characterizing non-participatory action-viewing as isolated may be misleading. Instead, we propose a continuum of socio-emotional engagement. We also highlight recent developmental work that uses a second-person perspective, investigating behavioral, physio...

Mirror therapy (MT) has been proposed as an essential component of upper limb neurorehabilitation, using mirror illusion the unaffected hand movement and superimposing it on affected to improve neuroplasticity for improving motor recovery in stroke patients. In this paper, we developed a virtual reality (VRMT) system, examined performance VRMT system. The system consists motion-tracking device,...

background: special care needs of mentally retarded children can affect the mental health of the mother. the purpose of this study was the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (mbct) on reducing depression and increasing life expectancy of mothers with mentally retarded children. methods: this study was a two group quasi-experimental plan with pre and post test. the population has fo...