Cognitive Health and Baby Boomers: 6 Points to Keep in Mind

Very inter­est­ing col­lec­tion of recent news…let’s con­nect some dots 1) Great arti­cle titled Boom time for retirees (Finan­cial Times) — “By 2015, boomers will have a net worth of some $26,000bn (£12,750bn, ¬17,670bn)  equiv­a­lent to a year’s gross domes­tic prod­uct for the US and euro­zone com­bined. They will con­trol a larg­er pro­por­tion of wealth, income and consumption…

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TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), PTSD, and veteran care

Final­ly. “The House took steps yes­ter­day to improve coun­sel­ing and care for the tens of thou­sands of mil­i­tary per­son­nel return­ing from Iraq and Afghanistan with brain injuries and post-trau­­mat­ic stress dis­or­der.” keep read­ing the Wash­ing­ton Post’s arti­cle House Pass­es Four Bills Aimed at Aid­ing Vet­er­ans. Our pre­vi­ous thoughts on TBI (Trau­mat­ic Brain Injury), Iraq and…

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TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), Iraq and neuropsychology

You prob­a­bly have seen the news about Bob Woodruf­f’s own recov­ery and his arti­cles now to raise aware­ness about the plight of Iraq veterans.In the arti­cle A First­hand Report on the Wounds of War we learn how “Woodruff, 45, is launch­ing a mul­ti­me­dia cam­paign that includes appear­ances Tues­day with Oprah Win­frey and on “Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca,” and the release of a book (“ In an Instant”) writ­ten with his wife, Lee, about their ordeal.”“Woodruff’s report­ing packs an emo­tion­al punch because he is, quite sim­ply, a man who cheat­ed death.… dis­cuss­es what a great work the mil­i­tary is doing to pre­vent deaths of injured sol­diers in Iraq-with the unin­tend­ed con­se­quence that reha­bil­i­ta­tion ser­vices back in the US are com­plete­ly overwhelmed.Neurophilosopher puts this prob­lem in a wider con­text with DoD is neglect­ing troops’ men­tal health.For a bet­ter pre­spec­tive, this is a quote from our inter­view with Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg on Cog­ni­tive Train­ing, talk­ing about the birth of mod­ern neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy dur­ing World War II:“Of course there weren’t advanced neu­roimag­ing tech­niques those days, so sci­en­tists could only spec­u­late about what hap­pened in healthy brains.

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