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The UK’s shortfall of neuro-rehab beds was laid bare recently, as a landmark report on the state of the national approach to brain injury was published. To truly meet demand, the country needs more than triple the current number of neuro- rehab beds, according to the report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Acquired Brain [...]
Exemplar care homes provide a home for a range of adults with complex needs and offer both end of life and long-term care for their service users. There can sometimes be the small ‘miracles’ for some families where their loved ones are placed in Exemplar homes cfor end of life care and they defeat the [...]
When brain lesions occur within the brain network responsible for morality and value- based decision making, they can predispose a person toward criminal behaviour, scientists say. Researchers examined MRI and CT scans of individuals known to have carried out crime. One group of 17 cases had a definitive correlation between criminal behaviour and a brain [...]
Scientists have uncovered a two-way link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intestinal changes. These interactions may contribute to increased infections in patients, and could also worsen chronic brain damage, say US researchers. A study by the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) found that TBI in mice can trigger delayed, long-term changes in the [...]
The average age for men fell from 71 to 68 and from 75 to 73 for women between 2007 and 2016, Public Health England said. The shift is partly due to increased stroke rates among 40 to 69-year-olds – up from 33 per cent to 38 per cent in the period. There has also been [...]
A study by researchers at Umeå University in Sweden found that traumatic brain injuries (TBI) heighten the risk of dementia for more than 30 years after the trauma – although the risk reduces over time. In the first year after TBI, the risk of dementia increases four to six-fold, the researchers found. Beyond that, the [...]
As the brain grows and develops, nerve cells must make connections between one another in order to function properly. Brain cells are tightly packed together, so each cell might touch hundreds or thousands of other cells. Yet those cells only make stable and strong connections with a fraction of those neighbouring cells. Researchers have long [...]
In recent years, there has been a concerted effort among scientists to map the connections in the brain - the so-called 'connectome' - and to understand how this relates to human behaviours, such as intelligence and mental health disorders. Now, in research published in the journal Neuron, an international team led by scientists at the University [...]
iReadMore provides computer-based reading therapy using written and spoken words and pictures, and aims to improve word-reading speed and accuracy. It was developed by the Aphasia Lab, part of the UCL Institute of Neurology. Stroke patients typically need around 100 hours of speech and language therapy (SaLT), to see a marked improvement. The NHS, however, provides [...]
Ocrelizumab is an experimental drug which has been tested as a treatment for relapsing remitting and primary progressive MS. It is taken as an intravenous infusion every six months. Last November, the European Commission granted marketing authorisation for the drug to treat both active relapsing MS and early active primary progressive MS. Since then, UK bodies [...]
