Brain injury
By Alice Jack, Assistant Psychologist at Brainkind Kerwin Court Memory rehabilitation after acquired brain injury Memory is a cognitive process that allows us to encode, store, and retrieve information. It underpins many everyday activities, from remembering routine tasks to recognising familiar people. The neural networks supporting memory include the hippocampus, medial temporal lobes, and frontal [...]
Elizabeth Nightingale is Neuro Services Lead at Chiltern Music Therapy - winners of the Therapy Provider of the Year award at the 2025 NR Times Awards. We got in touch with Elizabeth to learn more about Chiltern’s innovative Neurologic Music Therapy® (NMT™) programme which harnesses the power of music to support brain injury recovery. "Neurologic [...]
By Katy Duncanson, ILS Case Management The transition from paediatric to adult services marks an important stage in life, but for young people with complex needs, it can bring uncertainty. Support structures shift - multidisciplinary teams, coordinated care, and proactive planning, often change - and families may face fragmented and often under-resourced adult systems. Closing [...]
The new issue of NR Times is now online and packed with insights spanning brain and spinal injury, stroke and more. This month's NR Times focuses on what happens when rehabilitation meets real life: work, family, travel and the practical realities of long-term support. Read now here or below:
A US university is testing whether fresh frozen plasma can reduce secondary brain injury, the ongoing cell damage that unfolds hours to days after the initial impact. TBI affects more than two million people in the US each year and can impair memory, speech, mood and balance. Plasma is the liquid part of blood that [...]
A study will assess whether a cooling collar can improve recovery after traumatic brain injury. The device, named CB240 Aurora, is applied around the neck and aims to lower brain temperature in a targeted way. Brain cooling, or induced hypothermia, can limit swelling after stroke or head injury. Whole-body cooling can cause side effects such [...]
Traumatic brain injury is more common among domestic violence survivors than American football players, new research has found. Survivors of abuse can sustain head trauma more often than those playing the sport, with many experiencing injury from strangulation or blunt force trauma. Desiree Gorbea-Finalet of Disability Rights North Carolina said: "Brain injuries are much more [...]
Facial fractures affect up to 15 per cent of trauma patients and can flag life-threatening brain injuries that might otherwise be missed, new research has revealed. Facial injuries range from soft tissue damage and burns to dental trauma and fractures of the facial skeleton. Such fractures are a known marker for other serious harm, with [...]
The digital edition of the new NR Times annual yearbook is now live and packed with exclusive brain and spinal injury content. The 152-page publication includes exclusive interviews and research insights and highlights the innovative new technologies and approaches helping to transform lives around the world. A printed version will soon be available and distributed [...]
A coroner found that football heading likely contributed to brain injury that was a factor in Gordon McQueen’s death, an inquest in North Yorkshire heard. McQueen, capped for Scotland 30 times between 1974 and 1981 and a former Manchester United and Leeds player in a 16-year career, died at his home in North Yorkshire in [...]
