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Neuro Rehab VR announces release of its XR Therapy System for patient care and rehabilitation

Tech firm Neuro Rehab VR has releases its new XR Therapy System, a clinically validated and FDA registered VR therapy system for neuro-rehab and physical therapy treatment and assessment in clinical environments. The company states that its new VR system helps to increase provider efficiencies and enhance patient experiences while expediting recovery through engaging virtual reality exercises. Neuro Rehab VR’s solution has been developed to allow outpatient physical therapy centers and hospitals to work on patient physical therapy for upper and lower extremity, cognitive therapy, pain and anxiety alleviation, behavioral and social skills training, and more, through a library of VR applications.

By |2024-07-04T17:46:07+01:0027 October 2020|Tech & industry, News|
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‘Lockdown inspired me to run a marathon’

Having suffered a brain injury which left her struggling to rebuild her life, Helen Whiteley found salvation in running. Here, she tells how she went from running for the first time to completing the Virtual London Marathon in only eight months.

“On November 24, it will be eight years since I suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from a fall at home. I was found unresponsive at the bottom of my staircase at home by my husband Simon; I have no recollection of how I got there.

“I was initially taken to Huddersfield Hospital but once I was stabilised I was transferred to the Leeds General Infirmary neurosurgery department. It was here I was diagnosed with an acute subdural hematoma and fractured skull and was taken immediately into surgery for an emergency craniotomy to evacuate the hematoma. I was then placed in an induced coma on the neurosurgery ICU ward, where I stayed for a number of weeks.

By |2024-07-04T17:46:07+01:0026 October 2020|News, Brain injury|
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Tracer molecule may improve imaging tests for brain injury

Researchers have validated a new radiolabeled molecule that can be used with imaging tests to accurately detect and characterize brain injury. The team, led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), recently received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a first-in-human study with the strategy.

As described in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, the novel tracer, called [18F]3F4AP, is designed to bind to potassium channels and is radiolabeled so it can be visualized through positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Potassium channels in the brain's neurons become exposed when the neurons become demyelinated, or lose their protective coating (called myelin), which occurs with a variety of neurodegenerative conditions.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:07+01:0026 October 2020|Research, News|
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Stroke survivors’ life quality greatly improved by arts – new book

Launching on World Stroke Day on 29th October, new publication Recovering Hope is the result of a decade of working with stroke survivors in hospitals and in the months following their release.

The book presents qualitative data and evidence from healthcare professionals, artists and stroke survivors into how a tailored arts intervention can assist in recovery and improve quality of life. The book, written by Kevin Murphy, Lucinda Jarrett and Chris Rawlence from Rosetta Life, is the first output of SHAPER, the world’s largest study into the impact of arts on mental health launched by King’s College London and UCL. The book lays out the history of the Stroke Odysseys project and explains how Rosetta Life works with stroke communities through movement, song, poetry and performance.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:08+01:0021 October 2020|News|
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New neuro-rehab centre gets the go-ahead

Plans to build a new neuro-rehab centre in Southampton have finally been given the go ahead.

The new 57-bedroom neurological rehabilitation centre will be built on the old Bargain Farm site in Nursling, on the north-west side of the city. Work on the site is due to begin in the first quarter of 2021 with the service welcoming its first residents in the summer of 2022. The bespoke facility will include physiotherapy and medical consulting rooms together with a therapy gym fitted with rehabilitation equipment as well as lounges, dining rooms, cinema and a café bar. The facility will also include a self-contained step-down apartment.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:08+01:0021 October 2020|News|
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Groundbreaking research finds two different types of Parkinson’s

There are two types of Parkinson’s disease, and each may require different treatment, a leading Parkinson’s researcher has found.

It's long been understood that the disease could start in the nervous system of the gut and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve. But Per Borghammer, professor and consultant of nuclear medicine at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, says there is another way Parkinson’s starts. Over the last six years, Borghammer has explored this theory.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:08+01:0018 October 2020|News|
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MS Trust launches crisis campaign

The MS Trust has launched 'MS Trust...in us' - a campaign supporting people with MS and their health professionals, during the pandemic and beyond.

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the whole MS community, with delays in specialist healthcare services and treatments, not to mention the isolation and loneliness of life in lockdown. The MS Trust has launched ‘MS Trust…in us’, to help raise funds to restore MS specialist healthcare services in the UK, "getting them back on track to ensure people with MS can get the care and support they need and deserve, during the pandemic and beyond".
By |2024-07-04T17:46:09+01:0018 October 2020|News, Multiple sclerosis|
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The brain’s memory abilities inspire AI experts in making neural networks less ‘forgetful’

AI experts have successfully addressed what they call a "major, long-standing obstacle to increasing AI capabilities" by drawing inspiration from a human brain memory mechanism known as "replay."

They have developed a new method to protect - "surprisingly efficiently" - deep neural networks from "catastrophic forgetting" - upon learning new lessons, the networks forget what they had learned before. The work, by postdoctoral researcher Gido van de Ven and principal investigator Andreas Tolias at Baylor, with Hava Siegelmann at UMass Amherst, was published in Nature Communications. Siegelmann and colleagues point out that deep neural networks are the main drivers behind recent AI advances, but progress is held back by this forgetting.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:09+01:0018 October 2020|News|
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Researchers question the existence of the social brain as a separate system

During group problem solving the components of the social brain are co-activated, but they do not increase their coupling during cooperation as would be suggested for a holistic network.

That is according to a new study - 'social brain', a hypothetical network of different areas of the brain responsible for interacting with other people; published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. In this science, the brain of a person is most often studied while the person observes interactions between others without taking part in them themselves. This is due to the complexity of conducting experiments with active communication. Modern equipment for studying the brain is not adapted to situations in which a person can freely move and talk during the scanning process.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:09+01:0018 October 2020|Research, News|
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AI in brain disease treatment – new study

Artificial intelligence is lauded for its ability to solve problems humans cannot, thanks to novel computing architectures that process large amounts of complex data quickly. As a result, AI methods, such as machine learning, computer vision, and neural networks, are applied to some of the most difficult problems in science and society.

One tough problem is the diagnosis, surgical treatment, and monitoring of brain diseases. The range of AI technologies available for dealing with brain disease is growing fast, and exciting new methods are being applied to brain problems as computer scientists gain a deeper understanding of the capabilities of advanced algorithms.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:09+01:0018 October 2020|Tech & industry, News|
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