New market report analyzing the growing Digital Brain Health market 2012–2020

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 4, 2012

We are proud to release today what we believe is our best mar­ket intel­li­gence report so far, track­ing how ful­ly auto­mat­ed appli­ca­tions designed to assess, mon­i­tor and/ or enhance cog­ni­tion and brain func­tion­ing are trans­form­ing brain health, and health over­all. Here are a few exam­ples of what we mean by Dig­i­tal Brain Health, select­ed from among…

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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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Brain Injury Care: Treatment and Reimbursement Challenges

By SharpBrains | January 18, 2012

Gif­fords May Get Bet­ter Brain-Injury Care Than Most of Her Con­stituents (ProP­ub­li­ca): “Despite the need for more research, Gif­fords’ sto­ry shows the poten­tial of the treat­ments now avail­able. But accord­ing to Susan Con­nors, the pres­i­dent of the Brain Injury Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­ca, what treat­ment you receive depends heav­i­ly on your state, insur­ance plan (or lack of one), hospital…

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Interesting Recent Studies and Articles on Neuroplasticity, Cognitive Reserve, and Brain Fitness

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | January 25, 2011

Here are four stud­ies and arti­cles, pub­lished in Jan­u­ary, that report very inter­est­ing find­ings and offer inspir­ing ideas: An arti­cle on the role of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty in Rep. Gabrielle Gif­fords’ recov­ery. A new study that used a blood test able to detect beta amy­loid 42 (the pro­tein frag­ment that makes up Alzheimer’s plaque) and sug­gest­ed that the…

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