Dr. Sherrie All: A neuropsychologist shaping the future of cognitive wellness

By SharpBrains | August 19, 2013
Dr. Sherrie All

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there? I’m the founder of the Chica­go Cen­ter for Cog­ni­tive Well­ness and con­sul­tant to Math­er Life­Ways.  What excites me about work­ing at both places is that it enables me to be a pio­neer in help­ing peo­ple bet­ter under­stand and take…

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Good survey of brain stimulation methods, value and limitations

By SharpBrains | May 31, 2013

Stim­u­lat­ing the Brain: From If to How (The Dana Foun­da­tion): “Recent years have brought mod­ern meth­ods of brain stim­u­la­tion into the main­stream of neu­rol­o­gy and psy­chi­a­try. But their mechanism—how exact­ly deep brain stim­u­la­tion (DBS) relieves Parkinson’s dis­ease symp­toms and how repet­i­tive tran­scra­nial mag­net­ic stim­u­la­tion (rTMS) improves depres­sion, for example—remains obscure. Research

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Beyond helmets: concussions require proactive, individualized monitoring and rehab

By SharpBrains | March 21, 2013

New Con­cus­sion Guide­lines Stress Indi­vid­ual Treat­ment (The New York Times): “The Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Neu­rol­o­gy said Mon­day that it had revised its guide­lines for han­dling con­cus­sions to empha­size treat­ing ath­letes case by case rather than accord­ing to a pre­de­ter­mined scale…In not­ing that more than a mil­lion Amer­i­can athletes 

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Research on ‘Chemo Brain’: MRI Shows Brain Changes After Chemotherapy

By SharpBrains | November 17, 2011 |

‘Chemo Brain’: MRI Shows Brain Changes After Chemother­a­py (Med­scape): — “Breast can­cer sur­vivors who have been treat­ed with chemother­a­py show sig­nif­i­cant changes in brain activ­i­ty, mea­sured by func­tion­al mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (fMRI), accord­ing to a study pub­lished in the Novem­ber issue of the Archives of Neu­rol­o­gy.” — “The find­ing val­i­dates patients’ claims of reduced cog­ni­tive func­tion after…

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NovaVision selling assets (neuroplasticity-based Visual Restoration Therapy)

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 20, 2010

We men­tioned in our recent mar­ket report that NovaV­i­sion had declared bank­rup­cy. The com­pa­ny tried to trans­form its busi­ness mod­el in the last cou­ple of years — obvi­ous­ly it did­n’t work. Now the trustee is shar­ing a few more details and look­ing for ways to dis­pose of its assets: NovaVision’s FDA-Cleared Visu­al Restora­tion Ther­a­py (VRT) System…

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