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Growing research shows how two of the major cancer treatments, radiation and chemotherapy, can lead to long-term cognitive impairment

June 5, 2020 by SharpBrains

Mind jum­ble: Under­stand­ing chemo brain (Stan­ford Medicine):

Sarah Liu was treat­ed for leukemia as a teenag­er. She attend­ed her high school grad­u­a­tion on a four-hour pass from Lucile Packard Children’s Hos­pi­tal Stan­ford and was bald under her white grad­u­a­tion cap, her arm ban­daged where she’d been receiv­ing chemother­a­py drugs.

Liu sur­vived can­cer and the ordeal of her treat­ment, and for many years she thrived. But today, at 53, she strug­gles to remem­ber the names of all the Stan­ford oncol­o­gists who helped her, though she reveres them for sav­ing her life. Many years lat­er, her child­hood can­cer treat­ments — chemother­a­py and radi­a­tion — have left her brain muddled…She’s among the legions of can­cer sur­vivors suf­fer­ing from chemo brain, a neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­or­der for­mal­ly known as chemother­a­py-relat­ed cog­ni­tive impairment…

[Read more…] about Grow­ing research shows how two of the major can­cer treat­ments, radi­a­tion and chemother­a­py, can lead to long-term cog­ni­tive impairment

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: astrocyte, chemo-brain, chemobrain, chemotherapy, chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment, cognitive difficulties, Cognitive-impairment, microglia, myelin, oligodendrocyte, OPC

Next: Tools to detect and treat “chemo brain” symptoms common in around 35% of breast cancer survivors

March 23, 2015 by SharpBrains

fog brainUCLA study reveals treat­ment for women with breast can­cer suf­fer­ing cog­ni­tive dif­fi­cul­ties (Health­Canal):

“UCLA researchers have devel­oped a pro­gram that could improve the day-to-day lives of women with breast can­cer by address­ing post-treat­ment cog­ni­tive dif­fi­cul­ties, some­times known as “chemo brain,” which can affect up to 35 per­cent of women after their treat­ments [Read more…] about Next: Tools to detect and treat “chemo brain” symp­toms com­mon in around 35% of breast can­cer survivors

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Breast cancer survivors, cancer-treatment, chemo-brain, cognitive difficulties, cognitive-function, cognitive-rehabilitation, improve-cognitive-function, neurocognitive, neurocognitive testing, neurophysiological, neuropsychological, QEEG, UCLA

Can neuroplasticity-based interventions address tinnitus-related cognitive deficits?

November 6, 2014 by SharpBrains

Tinnitus_manTin­ni­tus: Turn­ing Down the Vol­ume (Med­Page Today):

“The drug D‑cycloserine was no more effec­tive than place­bo when used with a com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive train­ing pro­gram for reliev­ing per­sis­tent ear ring­ing in patients with tin­ni­tus in a small clin­i­cal study, but patients did report few­er cog­ni­tive dif­fi­cul­ties… [Read more…] about Can neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty-based inter­ven­tions address tin­ni­tus-relat­ed cog­ni­tive deficits?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: attention control, cognitive difficulties, cognitive-deficits, Cognitive-Training, D-cycloserine, Learning, neuroplasticity, tinnitus, Working-memory

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