Neuroimaging studies: In soccer, over one thousand “headers” per year can lead to brain injury and cognitive impairment

By SharpBrains | July 9, 2015

. Study indi­cates there may be a head­ing thresh­old above which the risk for brain dam­age increas­es sig­nif­i­cant­ly: An Inter­view with Michael L. Lip­ton (Dana Foun­da­tion): “Dr. Lip­ton pio­neered the use of MRI tech­nol­o­gy to detect mild trau­mat­ic brain injuries (mTBI) from con­cus­sions. Such injuries, which may bring cog­ni­tive and behav­ioral impair­ment and even neu­rode­gen­er­a­tion later…

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Brain Injury Care: Treatment and Reimbursement Challenges

By SharpBrains | January 18, 2012

Gif­fords May Get Bet­ter Brain-Injury Care Than Most of Her Con­stituents (ProP­ub­li­ca): “Despite the need for more research, Gif­fords’ sto­ry shows the poten­tial of the treat­ments now avail­able. But accord­ing to Susan Con­nors, the pres­i­dent of the Brain Injury Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­ca, what treat­ment you receive depends heav­i­ly on your state, insur­ance plan (or lack of one), hospital…

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Cognitive Health and Development: April Round-Up

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 29, 2009

Round-up of April arti­cles and news on neu­ro­science, brain devel­op­ment and cog­ni­tive health: Games for Health Con­fer­ences to host new Cog­ni­tive Health Track: For the first time, a new Cog­ni­tive Health track ‑Pow­ered by Sharp­Brains- will cov­er eleven brain fit­ness and cog­ni­tive health top­ics dur­ing the 5th Annu­al Games for Health Con­fer­ence. The cur­rent price…

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Brain/ Cognitive Enhancement with drugs… and cereal?

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 26, 2009

Sev­er­al recent arti­cles and news: Brain Gain: the under­ground world of “neu­roen­hanc­ing” drugs (The New York­er) — “Alex remains enthu­si­as­tic about Adder­all, but he also has a slight­ly jaun­diced cri­tique of it. “It only works as a cog­ni­tive enhancer inso­far as you are ded­i­cat­ed to accom­plish­ing the task at hand,” he said. “The num­ber of times…

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