Clinical practice
A simple tool predicts five-year dementia risk in stroke survivors using routine clinic and hospital data, an international team reports. The analysis drew on more than 2,600 stroke survivors across 12 studies in 10 countries, coordinated through the global Stroke and Cognition Consortium (STROKOG). Researchers found that a combination of age, sex, education, stroke severity, [...]
People experiencing delusions during psychosis may be ‘living out’ deep emotions, research suggests, offering a new way to understand the condition. The study sets out a “radically different perspective” on delusions, challenging older ideas that they are only a ‘glitched brain’. About 2-3 per cent of people in the UK and Australia experience psychosis, often [...]
An automated consciousness tool that fuses six tests has been built to sharpen diagnosis and estimate recovery in patients with disorders of consciousness. Tested in three European centres, the tool may help clinicians give more tailored assessments of disorders of consciousness, its developers say. After stroke, traumatic brain injury or cardiac arrest, some people sustain [...]
NICE has recommended natalizumab, sold as Tysabri and Tyruko, as an option for certain people with hard-to-control multiple sclerosis. The decision by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will allow NHS coverage of the drug in England, with decisions also influencing NHS coverage in other parts of the UK. The guidance specifically recommends [...]
Healthcare professionals are being exposed to “avoidable moral conflicts” at work, leading to ill health and many of them quitting their profession, says a team of international experts. Dr Deborah Morris, Director of the Centre for Developmental and Complex Trauma (CDCT), part of St Andrew's Healthcare located in Northampton, was asked to co-write an article [...]
By Gerry Roxburgh, specialist neurological Speech and Language Therapist, Elysium Healthcare
In an early new year boost for Calvert Reconnections, case managers and NHS clinicians throughout the UK have praised the centre’s “life-changing” approach to ABI rehabilitation. Following recent experience days and visits to the Keswick-based residential centre, a range of brain injury professionals have shared their thoughts. “Calvert Reconnections is an amazing place,” said Jamie [...]
A study has laid bare the pressures facing paediatric neuro-rehab professionals at the height of the pandemic, and how they were able to quickly adapt to new working practices.
It also highlights the need for greater support for families affected by neurological conditions in accessing technology; and for more research into the efficacy of remote interventions. The Paediatric Neuro-rehabilitation Special Interest Group (PNR-SIG) charted the experiences of professionals from the start of the first lockdown and throughout subsequent months. Respondents were largely clinical or educational psychologists involved in paediatric neuro-rehab.
