University of Lucerne

The future of high-dose, high-intensity neurorehabilitation: Consensus-based core recommendations from the fourth Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable

Objective: Convergent evidence indicates that high-dose, high-intensity rehabilitation (HDHI) improves outcomes beyond usual care after stroke, yet implementation remains limited. While questions of optimal dose, timing, and delivery format continue to be refined, the biological...

Who You Meet Matters: International Evidence on Economic Connectedness and Social Mobility

Abstract We construct the first internationally comparable measure of offline economic connectedness (EC), extending the online framework of Chetty et al. to a cross-country setting. We conceptualize EC as access to individuals in high-status occupations and measure it as the pro...

Sirolimus-eluting balloon for the treatment of peripheral artery disease: SUCCESS PTA real-world single-arm study

BACKGROUND: Outcomes with sirolimus-coated drug-eluting balloons (DEB) have been positive for the treatment of femoropopliteal arterial lesions but have not been studied in a broader patient population. OBJECTIVES: Collect real-world safety and effectiveness data on the SELUTION...

Systematic review on the association between brain-related measures and upper limb movement characteristics after stroke

Abstract Background Upper limb (UL) movements are highly diverse, as are movement deficits following stroke. The relationship that stroke pathology has with UL impairments and their recovery has been studied with an increasingly complex array of neuroimaging and neurophysiology t...

The winner–loser gap in democratic attitudes among politicians: Individual and collective outcomes

Abstract Rooted in concerns about losers’ consent to electoral outcomes, a vast literature documents a winner–loser gap in democratic attitudes among voters, with winners displaying systematically more positive attitudes than losers across a range of indicators. Surprisingly, we...