Posts Tagged ‘Brain-Imaging’
Nebraska football team developing 10-minute concussion test
Nebraska to study concussions (ESPN): “…the day is coming when a football player who takes a hit to the head will come to the sideline, take off his helmet and slip on an electrode-covered mesh cap
Read MoreFinalists announced for global neurotechnology prize
Finalists Announced for Israel Brain Technologies’ Million Dollar Global B.R.A.I.N. Prize (press release): “Israel Brain Technologies (IBT) has announced the ten finalists for its $1 million Global B.R.A.I.N. (Breakthrough Research And Innovation in Neurotechnology) Prize
Read MoreWhen 1 + 1 = 5: Dyscalculia and Working Memory
Jacob’s mother writes that ‘Jacob, 10-years-old, still struggles with number bonds to 10. Learning to tell the time is still slow – he has not mastered half-past. Although he managed to learn his 5x tables because we practiced all summer, this has now gone’. Jacob has dyscalculia, a math disability where students struggle to learn or…
Read More36-Hour Offer: Integrative Neuroscience, Personalized Medicine and the 2011 SharpBrains Summit
An impressive recent reference book on the future of brain care is Integrative Neuroscience and Personalized Medicine, edited by Evian Gordon and Stephen H. Koslow (Oxford University Press; $89.95). Book description: This book takes an in depth and hard look at the current status and future direction of treatment predictive markers in Personalized Medicine for…
Read MoreLiteracy Re-wires the Brain
In a study published today in Science, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to study the brains of 63 adults: 10 were illiterate, 22 learned to read as adults, and 31 learned to read as children. Brain responses to spoken and written language, visual faces, houses, tools, and checkers were examined. The main differences…
Read MoreDr. Gary Small’s The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: Brain Fog
(Editor’s Note: what follows is an excerpt from Dr. Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan’s new book, The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases) CHAPTER TEN Brain Fog Summer 1990 Gigi and I had moved to Studio City, about a forty-minute commute to UCLA. On weekends, we often went…
Read More