Lebanon’s Disabled Community Is Dying
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hen asked to describe the current political and social crisis facing Lebanon today, most people living in the country will compare their situation to being caged in an open-air prison. People living with a neurological or physical disability face particular challenges in Lebanon’s political and economic crisis. The situation that disabled people endure today was not inevitable nor of their own choosing there are thousands of stories of struggling Lebanese citizens who deserve more from the Lebanese government and international actors.
Stories such as Yousif al Mawla, the member of a wheelchair basketball team, offer a glimpse of the scenario shared by many Lebanese living in an environment of indifference. Yousif is a member of the Lebanese Welfare Association for the Handicapped, a non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to filling gaps left by inaction of state institutions. Several times a week, Yousif enjoys going to a loc
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IMAGE: Dr. Wylie, the director of the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation, conducts research in cognitive fatigue in healthy individuals and populations with multiple sclerosis, brain injury, and Gulf. view more
Credit: Kessler Foundation/Jody Banks
East Hanover, NJ. April 1, 2021. A team of New Jersey researchers has shown that changes in perceptual certainty and response bias, two central metrics of signal detection theory (SDT), correlate with changes in cognitive fatigue. They also show that SDT measures change as a function of changes in brain activation. This finding was reported in
The authors are Glenn Wylie, DPhil, Brian Yao, PhD, and John DeLuca, PhD, of Kessler Foundation, and Joshua Sandry, PhD, of Montclair State University.
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Cutting-edge 3D scanners have been put to the test by researchers from the University of Southampton and partners Exceed Worldwide to help increase the quality and quantity of prosthetics services around the world.
The study, carried out within the People Powered Prosthetics research group compared plaster-casts and 3D scans for prosthetic limb users in Cambodia to establish the suitability of different digital technologies.
The results, published in the
Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, will help people to choose the right scanner for different uses - including new prosthesis design, replicating worn-out prosthesis, or limb shape monitoring - and assess whether affordable scanners in lower-income countries are fit for purpose.