HEROES project

The HEROES project through wearable robotics, brain-machine interaction, the use of a virtual environment, and serious gaming aims to improve the neurorehabilitation outcomes of patients with chronic stroke and motor disability. All these methods of human-machine interface aim to investigate and promote neuroplasticity, that is the retraining of the brain’s neuron networks that have not been affected, to regain motor functions. HEROES aims to explain how neural networks reorganize after stroke and how this phenomenon evolves over time. If the reorganization of the brain is beneficial for the patient’s mobility, methods are used to enhance it through the program. Otherwise, ways to prevent it are being researched.