Posts Tagged ‘brain-injury’
New NFL concussion scandal: Is this the end of American football as a popular youth sport?
In NFL, Deeply Flawed Concussion Research and Ties to Big Tobacco (The New York Times): “Now, an investigation by The New York Times has found that the N.F.L.‘s concussion research was far more flawed than previously known
Read MoreNext: Smell tests to help detect brain injury and neurodegenerative ailments
Smell Tests Could One Day Reveal Head Trauma and Neurodegenerative Disease (Scientific American): “Name that smell—if you can’t, it could be an indicator of a problem somewhere in your brain. New research suggests that scratch-and-sniff smell tests could become
Read MoreGeneral Chiarelli: “We have a totally dysfunctional research system (for brain and mental health)”
— General Chiarelli’s Brain Crusade (Politico): “Soon after Peter Chiarelli became vice chief of staff of the Army in 2008, a subordinate showed him a bar graph depicting the number of soldiers determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs to be at least 30 percent disabled. The tallest column was on the far left.
Read MoreChallenging the outdated “fixed brain” dogma, the cognitive training market keeps growing
This Man’s Brain Recovery Has Baffled Scientists And Provided Hope For Others (The Telegraph): “…The odds of surviving a coma are notoriously hard to predict, brain injury being the most complex of problems afflicting the most complex organ in the body…In Lewis’s case, it took a village to rebuild his mind
Read MoreBrain Health, Brain Injury Pioneers Receive SJBF Angel Awards
Today, May 8th, 2014, we are pleased to recognize the following amazing people, from journalists to clinicians to brain injury survivors and their family members, with the Annual Sarah Jane Brain Foundation Angel Awards. These prestigious awards are
Read MoreUpdate: To train your brain, work as a physician, air traffic controller, financial analyst, or similar
Time for SharpBrains’ April 2014 e‑newsletter. If you’re looking for new thinking, research and tools to enhance lifelong brain health, let us suggest you’re in the right place! New thinking: Top insights about neuroplasticity, emotion and cognition, courtesy of our book readers (In Spanish: Principales conceptos acerca de la neuroplasticidad, las emociones y la cognición) The neuroscience…
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