30 March 2011

Virtual Rehabilitation for Brain Injuries: A Case Study from Epworth Hospital

You are kindly invited to the first brown bag presentation in the Business of Health Seminar Series for Semester 1, 2011.

Prof Wilson will be talking about his work on virtual rehabilitation using virtual-reality technology. This involves motor and cognitive rehabilitation with brain injured patients at Epworth Hospital. This method of rehabilitation is a way of augmenting therapy, particularly during the early stages of recovery.

Come to discover and be exposed to the interesting work other researchers at RMIT are doing and see if there are any possible inter-disciplinary synergies with your own work.

Please feel free to bring and eat your lunch while the seminar is in progress.

Event:	Virtual Rehabilitation for Brain Injuries: A Case Study from Epworth Hospital
Person:	Professor Peter Wilson
Date:	2011-03-31
Time:	12.30 pm – 1.30 pm
Location:	RMIT Building 108, 239 Bourke Street, Level 12, Seminar Room (108.12.84)

Mumford, Duckworth, Thomas, Shum, Williams, & Wilson (in press). Upper Limb Virtual Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury: Initial evaluation of the Elements System. Brain Injury.

Duckworth, J.D. & Wilson , P.H . (in press). Embodiment and Play in designing an interactive art system for movement rehabilitation. Second Nature.

Mumford, M. & Wilson , P.H . (2009). Virtual reality in acquired brain injury upper limb rehabilitation: Evidence-based evaluation of clinical research. Brain Injury, 23(3), 179-191.

Caeyenberghs, K., Tsoupas, J., Smits-Engelsman, B.C.M., & Wilson , P.H . (in press, accepted Nov. 2008). Motor Imagery Development in Primary School Children. Developmental Neuropsychology.

Caeyenberghs, K., Wilson , P.H ., van Roon, D., Swinnen, S.P., Smits-Engelsman, B.C.M. (in press, accepted Nov. 2008). Motor imagery as a tool to study movement development. Developmental Science.

Lewis, M., Vance, A., Maruff, P., Wilson , P., & Cairney, S. (2008). Differences in motor imagery between children with DCD and ADHD-CT. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 50, 608-612.

For further enquiries, please contact Dr Wang-Sheng Lee at wangsheng.lee@rmit.edu.au.