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  • Social workers offered brain injury guidance

    An upcoming webinar aims to give social workers more clarity on newly refreshed guidance on working with people affected by brain injury.

  • Event could offer cannabis clarity

    Future Cannabis Strategies Europe brings together influencers from major European cannabis companies, including CBD oil producers, to discuss the future of the legal cannabis industry. Topics up for discussion include how manufacturers can understand trends and demands from European cannabis derived product consumers. They will also review recent product innovation to understand how market trends [...]

  • Stroke invention is best in Britain

    Neuroball, invented by UK firm Neurofenix, was chosen from a shortlist of the UK’s 10 best “garden shed inventions” that could seriously transform people’s lives. The competition was sponsored by innovation foundation Nesta and supported by the government. Neuroball allows stroke patients to engage in rehabilitation exercises at home and was inspired by relatives of [...]

  • The future of UK brain injury care

    The shuffling and whispers of the conference crowd ceased entirely when Yorkshireman Stephen shared his story. The brain injury survivor recalled the last thing his wife ever said to him before the overdose that killed her. “I just want my old Steph back”, he quoted to a watching audience of delegates. Even battle-hardened brain injury [...]

  • Together at last – a holiday home with a difference

    Community Case Management Services (CCMS) has transformed a 17th Century large dilapidated farmhouse and an adjoining stone barn in an idyllic corner of Normandy into an accessible holiday venue and retreat. The retreat offers people with subtle to high- level disabilities a place in which to relax with friends and loved ones in the heart [...]

  • Huntington’s breakthrough in Scotland

    It is believed the drug – usually used to treat diabetes – can help to restore brain activity before symptoms of the terminal illness become established. Research published in the journal eLife found that the drug can help to regulate the Huntingtin protein, which in a mutated form can accumulate in the brain, leading to [...]

  • Search for MS treatment stepped up

    It is hoped that the study – the third and final phase of the trial into the drug simvastatin - will lay the foundations for an effective SPMS treatment, which is currently lacking. The MS-STAT2 trial will involve 1,180 people with SPMS and confirm whether simvastatin could slow or stop disability progression in SPMS cases, [...]

  • Implants breakthrough in spinal cord injury

    Spinal cord stimulation and physical therapy have helped a man paralysed since 2013 regain his ability to stand and walk with assistance. The results were achieved in a US research collaboration between Mayo Clinic and UCLA. With an implanted stimulator, the man was able to step with a front-wheeled walker while trainers provided occasional assistance. [...]

  • Study hints at the overlooked power of activity after injury

    A Columbia University study in mice hints at new, activity-centred treatment strategies which could speed recovery times after brain damage or stroke, researchers say. They focused their study on the part of the cerebral cortex called the barrel cortex, which, in mice, is thought to be critical for sensing and analysing signals during “whisking” (moving [...]

  • Elysium Neurological services go from strength to strength

    It is a young, dynamic company with a passion for the delivery of patient centred care. This is led and delivered by a management team with enormous industry experience. Elysium Neurological is the neuro division of Elysium Healthcare which, having acquired a number of sites over the last 18 months, is now one of the [...]