Welcome to this brand new episode where 4 healthcare students (Ellie, Haleemah, Natasha and Sam) take on a new game of “Research Roulette”. The team used a random word generator to pick a word that they all will use to base a search for an interesting research article on and come back and discuss their findings with you all.  

This roulette’s word was “Software” and this spurred a hugely diverse conversation on technologies involvement in patient care from diagnosis to treatment.

Ellie kicked off the episode @3.28 with an article (1) which discussed how we might be able to use brain computer interfaces to improve the lives of people with upper limb paralysis, helping them complete digital tasks such as sending texts and online shopping. Sam then continued this conversation of the use of technological development to improve neurological treatment @10.30. He analysed a paper (2) that examined the utility and performance of a neuroprosthetic hand following spinal injury both in the lab and consequently at home. The third article (3) was presented by natasha @ 23.55 where she broke down the rationale and evidence for using VR in the assessment and rehabilitation of people with Parkinson’s disorder and discussed recommendations for future research. Finally Haleemah @ 36.00 delved into an article (4) that explored how imaging software utilised during the COVID 19 pandemic has evolved in order to better distinguish between CT of COVID patients from other lung condition. This development has the potential to improve assessment of the condition alongside determining severity and patient prognosis. 

To read the full work of all the articles discussed in the episode please look below.

1. Motor neuroprosthesis implanted with neurointerventional surgery improves capacity for activities of daily living tasks in severe paralysis: first in-human experience

https://jnis.bmj.com/content/13/2/102

2. Implantable Brain-Computer Interface for Volitional Hand Grasp in Spinal Cord Injury https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-138657/v1_stamped.pdf

3. Virtual reality in research and rehabilitation of gait and balance in Parkinson disease https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-020-0370-2 

4. Artificial Intelligence to codify lung CT in COVID-19 patients”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11547-020-01195-x

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