Posts Tagged ‘Traumatic-Brain-Injury’
The FDA warns consumers not to use unapproved apps and devices to diagnose concussion
_______ FDA warns public not to use unapproved or uncleared medical devices to help assess or diagnose a concussion (news release): Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning the public not to use medical devices marketed to consumers that claim to help assess, diagnose or manage head injury, including concussion, traumatic brain injury…
Read MoreStudy finds training-induced neuroplasticity even in patients with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI)
_____ Cognitive training reduces depression, rebuilds injured brain structure & connectivity after traumatic brain injury (UT-Dallas release): “New research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas shows that certain cognitive training exercises can help reduce depression and improve brain health in individuals years after they have suffered a traumatic brain…
Read MoreUT Dallas researcher secures $2.7m grant to better monitor and address TBI-related cognitive and functional deficits
Scientist Gets Grant for Study of Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injuries (UT Dallas release): A researcher from the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) under the Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program. The grant, awarded to Dr. Daniel Krawczyk, deputy director of the…
Read MoreThe National Institute of Mental Health gives $2M grant to identify factors that make working memory training work (or not)
Understanding Individual Differences: UC Riverside psychology professor receives $1.9 million grant to study memory training (press release): “Aaron Seitz, a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside and the director of the UCR Brain Game Center for mental fitness and wellbeing, and Susanne Jaeggi, an associate professor at the school of education at UC…
Read MoreBrain training franchisor LearningRx settles FTC complaint about its marketing claims
LearningRx To Pay $200K For Allegedly Unproven Claims That Brain Training Can Improve Income, Treat Autism & ADHD (Consumerist): “The company behind the LearningRX “brain training” program has agreed to pay a $200,000 settlement and to stop making claims that its system is clinically proven to treat serious health conditions, or that it can
Read MoreStudy: Disruptions in brain connectivity may explain TBI-related cognitive deficits
Brain connectivity disruptions may explain cognitive deficits in people with brain injury (UT-Dallas release): “Cognitive impairment following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common, often adversely affecting quality of life for those 1.7 million Americans who experience a TBI each year. Researchers at
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