Get Your Brain in the Game From: Swissnex Swiss startup MindMaze presents virtual reality for stroke therapy at the NeuroGaming Conference. Sure, virtual reality is the next big thing. This is true not only for gaming, but for health and rehabilitation as well. Take the Swiss company MindMaze and its founder and CEO, Tej Tadi, a speaker at NeuroGaming. MindMaze combines advanced motion capture, virtual reality and brain imaging technologies in their platform for treating stroke and brain injury survivors. Using a camera and depth sensors, MindMaze can lead a patient with limited function in their right arm to reach for a virtual object with their left arm, yet see their avatar's right arm move on screen. "It tricks the brain into believing this right arm is capable of moving," Tadi explains. And this mirroring technique can stimulate new neural connections. Read the entire article and view a video (2:06) at: http://swissnexsanfrancisco.org/Ourwork/events/mindmaze Links: Mindmaze http://www.mindmaze.ch/ NeuroGaming Conference http://www.neurogamingconf.com/