On the limits of Citicoline and the need for comprehensive brain injury rehabilitation

By SharpBrains | November 21, 2012

Citi­co­l­ine does not improve func­tion­al, cog­ni­tive sta­tus in patients with trau­mat­ic brain injury (Out­come Mag­a­zine): “Although approved for use for treat­ing trau­mat­ic brain injury (TBI) in near­ly 60 coun­tries, use of citi­co­l­ine in a ran­dom­ized tri­al that includ­ed more than 1,200 par­tic­i­pants with TBI did not result in improve­ment in func­tion­al and cog­ni­tive sta­tus, according…

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Retooling cognitive rehabilitation for patients with traumatic brain injury

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 24, 2012

Our col­league Kate Sul­li­van, who led a superb Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit work­shop on How to Set Up a Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter to Enhance Cog­ni­tive Retrain­ing and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion, based on her expe­ri­ence at Wal­ter Reed Nation­al Mil­i­tary Med­ical Cen­ter, just alert­ed us of a new study pre­pared by her team: Out­comes from a Pilot Study using Com­put­er-Based Reha­bil­i­ta­tive Tools in a…

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Training Attention and Memory after Bypass Surgery

By SharpBrains | September 18, 2012

“Brain Train­ing” May Lessen Cog­ni­tive Impair­ments Asso­ci­at­ed with Coro­nary Bypass Surgery (press release): “This study demon­strat­ed that patients suf­fer­ing from cog­ni­tive deficits after coro­nary bypass surgery could great­ly ben­e­fit from cog­ni­tive train­ing that tar­gets both atten­tion and memory—the cog­ni­tive func­tions most affect­ed after this type of operation…What’s more, ben­e­fits from the train­ing are main­tained over time…the…

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Gabrielle Giffords’ recovery and Cognitive Rehab Insurance Coverage Gap

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 11, 2011

Gif­fords’ recov­ery renews focus on cov­er­age gap for vet­er­ans (Mia­mi Her­ald): — “Doc­tors and reha­bil­i­ta­tion spe­cial­ists have learned a great deal from the treat­ment of trau­mat­ic brain injuries in com­bat vet­er­ans of Iraq and Afghanistan. One in five vet­er­ans of those wars has suf­fered some form of trau­mat­ic brain injury, most com­mon­ly con­cus­sions from road­side bombs.”…

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Update: Expo Day; Top 15 Articles of 2009

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 6, 2010

In this Jan­u­ary issue of our eNewslet­ter, we will first brief you on the enlight­en­ing demos that will take place on Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 20th, as part of the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit, and then present the 15 most stim­u­lat­ing Sharp­Brains arti­cles of 2009. Expo Day If you want to see and dis­cuss the lat­est pro­grams and tech­nolo­gies for…

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