Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Irvine, California, USA.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California at Irvine, California, USA.
J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2019 Oct 30;16(1):144. doi: 10.1186/s12984-019-0610-0.
On JNER's 15th anniversary, this editorial analyzes the state of the field of neuroengineering and rehabilitation. I first discuss some ways that the nature of neurorehabilitation research has evolved in the past 15 years based on my perspective as editor-in-chief of JNER and a researcher in the field. I highlight increasing reliance on advanced technologies, improved rigor and openness of research, and three, related, new paradigms - wearable devices, the Cybathlon competition, and human augmentation studies - indicators that neurorehabilitation is squarely in the age of wearability. Then, I briefly speculate on how the field might make progress going forward, highlighting the need for new models of training and learning driven by big data, better personalization and targeting, and an increase in the quantity and quality of usability and uptake studies to improve translation.
在 JNER 成立 15 周年之际,本社论分析了神经工程和康复领域的现状。我首先从我作为 JNER 主编和该领域研究员的角度,讨论了过去 15 年来神经康复研究性质的一些变化。我强调了对先进技术的日益依赖、研究的严谨性和开放性的提高,以及三个相关的新范式——可穿戴设备、Cybathlon 竞赛和人类增强研究——这些都表明神经康复正处于可穿戴时代。然后,我简要推测了该领域未来可能取得进展的方向,强调需要新的大数据驱动的训练和学习模式、更好的个性化和针对性,以及增加可用性和接受度研究的数量和质量,以提高转化。