Parents have been able to interact with their children in new ways through the introduction of music therapy into the home during lockdown, according to one business which has overseen remote sessions.
A case management company has changed hands through a management buy-out (MBO). AKA Case Management has been sold by founder Angela Kerr to new directors Dawn Abernethy and Andrew Rose.
Dawn and Andrew have both been part of the senior leadership team at the Nottingham-based case management company for a number of years and will now oversee the continuing growth and development of the business.
Pioneering research is underway to develop a drug that could slow the development of Parkinson’s disease.
The project is a partnership between Parkinson’s UK and the University of Sheffield, and is backed by up to £1.2million in funding from the charity.
The research aims to create a world-first drug that can protect the dopamine-producing brain cells that are lost in Parkinson’s by targeting mitochondria.
Men and women are impacted differently by the effects of neurological diseases, new research has found.
The study adds to a growing body of research suggesting sex differences play roles in how patients respond to brain diseases, as well as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Motor Neurone Disease (MND), and other brain ailments.
That is progress from just a few years ago, say the University of Maryland team behind the new research.
"I have worked with vascular cells for 20 years and, up until maybe about five years ago, if you asked if the sex of my cells mattered at all, I would have said no,” says Alisa Morss Clyne, director of the university's Vascular Kinetics Laboratory.
Technology which uses artificial intelligence (AI) electromagnetic therapy to help neurorecovery can reduce disability in stroke patients, new trials have revealed.
BrainQ is developing a cloud-based platform to map brain network activity using explanatory machine learning algorithms, to extract biological insights that translate into precision therapies.
In a recent pilot trial involving 25 stroke patients, patients recovered 77 per cent faster from the disabilities caused by their stroke through the use of the BrainQ technology.
Primary care has an important role to play in preserving patients’ brain health from the earliest age by using ‘Life’s Simple Seven’ as a basis, new research has concluded.
Preserving the brain health of an ageing population is a growing concern globally, with an estimated one in five people in the US aged 65 or over having a mild cognitive impairment.
While one in seven over 65s currently has dementia, that is expected to triple in the US by 2050, the new study has found.
Louise Gardner, associate solicitor at Novum Law, outlines the impact of gender on brain injury and asks if there is an imbalance in the way women's brain injuries are assessed and treated.
Gender differences in brain injuries have only been the subject of research for the last 20 years. It begs the question of why this is the case, given how long we've understood concussion. Does it display historic sexism in medical research? Or a lack of knowledge that men and women's central nervous systems are different? Or is it because high-profile sporting head injuries involve men?
A woman who had to learn to walk again after being diagnosed with a brain tumour only weeks after the birth of her daughter is now set to run the London Marathon.
In 2015, former civil servant Marie Garnett was diagnosed with a benign meningioma brain tumour less than six weeks after giving birth to daughter Amelia.
The 45-year-old had suffered from severe headaches for seven years, which had become unmanageable after Amelia’s birth, and also developed dizziness and loss of balance in the days leading up to her diagnosis.
Marie was rushed to The Walton Centre where she spent more than a month as she underwent three brain surgeries, the longest of which lasted eight hours, before battling meningitis – all while trying to be a new mum from her hospital bed.
The adoption of telerehab during the pandemic has seen seismic changes in how many therapists engage with their clients. Here, neurophysiotherapist Leanna Luxton, co-founder of Remote Rehab, explains how embracing technology can yield lasting positive change
Nothing has challenged our thinking around the value and effectiveness of virtual rehabilitation as much as this worldwide pandemic.
Virtual therapy, whilst used very effectively for decades in many fields of recovery, hadn’t, until nine months ago, been widely adopted in neurorehabilitation and so very little insight and data has been collected about its appropriateness and effectiveness with patients recovering from a brain injury or a stroke.
Diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease could be made through a skin swab procedure, after research confirmed it it possible to identify the condition from compounds found on the surface of the skin.
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a world-first technique which works by analysing compounds found in sebum - the oily substance that coats and protects the skin - and identifying changes in people with Parkinson’s disease.
“We believe that our results are an extremely encouraging step towards tests that could be used to help diagnose and monitor Parkinson’s,” says Professor Perdita Barran, from the University of Manchester, who led the study.
“Not only is the test quick, simple and painless but it should also be extremely cost-effective because it uses existing technology that is already widely available.
