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Various studies suggest that women and girls sustain more concussions, at a higher rate than their male counterparts in the same sports. A recent National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Injury Surveillance Program study, for example, shows the rate of concussion per 1000 athlete-exposures in football is 6.3 in females versus 3.4 in males. Similar differences were noted in basketball (6.0 in females versus 3.9 in males) and baseball/softball (3.3 versus 0.9). Women are also known to experience more severe symptoms, and take longer to recover.

The company has launched an AI package for the identification and triage of stroke in CT scans. It flags and prioritises vascular occlusions which result in both ischemic and haemorrhagic strokes. The stroke package, comprising the new large-vessel occlusion AI module and Aidoc's FDA-cleared and CE-marked intracranial haemorrhage AI module, reduces 'door-to-needle' time for patients suffering from stroke, Aidoc says.

The Youth Movement Against Alzheimer's (YMAA), a nonprofit with high school and college chapters across the country, has created a MoveOn.org petition aims to put Alzheimer's at the forefront of the upcoming election. 70 collegiate members will hand-deliver the signed petitions to congressional leaders and candidates on Capitol Hill on Oct 24th during the Us Against Alzheimer's Advocacy Day. The call to action includes demanding that presidential candidates and members of Congress work to invest in better care by increasing support and available resources for family caregivers.

Disturbed sleep is a prevalent symptom in anxiety disorders and a key diagnosis criterion for subthreshold and generalised anxiety disorders (GAD). It is estimated that more than two thirds of patients with GAD suffer from insomnia, with even higher rates amongst the elderly, causing a detrimental effect on patients’ daily living skills and quality of life. In 80 per cent of patients with diagnosed anxiety disorders, symptoms of insomnia appear simultaneously with anxiety symptoms highlighting the importance of targeting insomnia in the treatment of anxiety.

The clinic says it works with individuals to leverage the full power of their brain - through functional medicine, psychological techniques and neurotechnologies, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and biofeedback. The venture is run by SOFOS Associates, whose founder Natalie Ramsden (pictured below), a business psychologist, says: “Traditional development has focused on skill and knowledge acquisition or maybe some light strategies for improving health and wellbeing.

The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s (ACRM) 96^th annual conference in Chicago will be the biggest global gathering of rehabilitation professionals of the year. Over 500 educational sessions,  40 courses and 300 symposia will take place at the Hilton Chicago from 3^rd to 8^th November. The overall theme of the event, which will attract 3,000+ international attendees, is ‘progress in rehabilitation research – translation to clinical practice’.

Eighty-three patients received NMT in conjunction with other rehabilitation therapies, such as physio, speech, language and/or occupational therapies to accelerate their recovery. The therapy is also designed to help patients effectively manage the emotional demands of life immediately after a stroke. It was delivered by NMT provider Chroma in partnership with Imperial Health Charity and Imperial Stroke Services. The nine-month project has seen improved rehabilitation and patient outcomes as well as increased staff and carer use of music as a ward-based activity.

Once further developed, this NeuroD1-based gene therapy could potentially be used to treat stroke, researchers say.  "The current treatment for stroke has a narrow time window, typically within a few hours after the occurrence of stroke," said lead author Yuchen Chen, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State.

The Independent Neurorehabilitation Providers Alliance (INPA) provides a collective voice for private providers of neurorehabilitation services across the country. Chair Lesley Pope, who was appointed in December and has spent recent months visiting and liaising with alliance members, says raising awareness of the power of rehabilitation is a key focus in the year ahead. This, she says, is crucial in the aftermath of the the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Acquired Brain Injury’s landmark Time for Change report, published last year.

Almost a million people in America have Parkinson’s but a group of 11 influential organisations believe funding for research into the disease is woefully short.

Next week they will convene in Washington D.C. and share their ideas and concerns with elected government officials.

The Parkinson's Foundation, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) and nine other Parkinson’s organisations will join leading Parkinson’s experts and advocates at the 2019 Parkinson’s Policy Forum.