Once the electrodes are implanted, clinicians can control how electrical pulses are delivered to the brain using a battery-run, pacemaker-like device outside the body. By trial and error, doctors figure out what patterns of electrical activity are most likely to help patients while producing the fewest side effects.
OCD is a condition that prompts people to have debilitating and recurring thoughts and compulsive behaviors, such as hand-washing. Read the rest of this entry »
Oak Cliff baby, brain damaged after injury, taken off life support
09:29 PM CST on Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Darlene Diles spent the first 17 days of her life in her mother’s care before an injury on Jan. 30 left her with severe brain damage.
She spent the remaining days of her life hooked to tubes and machines inside Children’s Medical Center Dallas, where doctors blamed her head injury on child abuse.
On Tuesday afternoon, Read the rest of this entry »
Feb 23, 2009 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) –
— Medtronic, a medical technology company, has received approval from the FDA for a humanitarian device exemption for its Reclaim deep brain stimulation therapy for chronic, severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The company also announced the first enrollment in its multi-center, randomized clinical trial of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-resistant depression.
Medtronic is proceeding with Read the rest of this entry »
Conventional wisdom tells us that advancing age slows down memory.
But some researchers suggest the brain is plastic and, with the right training, you can keep it up to speed no matter how old you are.
The University of Southern California is studying a computerized brain fitness program.
‘Brain fitness’ is based on neuroplasticity – the science that suggests the brain is plastic and can physically change and rejuvenate at any age.
That Read the rest of this entry »
A drug used for stroke patients may help sharpen middle-aged brains, researchers are reporting.
If proven in humans, the drug may one day help blunt the impact of normal aging “or even enhance learning and memory throughout the life span,” the American Psychological Association said in an announcing the findings, published in the February issue of the journal, Behavioral Neuroscience.
“I do think that we are going to move into that area,” says Read the rest of this entry »
The brain fitness industry is mind-boggling. So which head games really work?
Is your brain switched to autopilot? If you’ve hit age 25 or so, it probably is.
Time to start exercising.
The notion of fitness for the brain has arrived — via video games, Internet sites and best-selling puzzle books. The lexicon includes terms such as “neurobics” and “brain calisthenics.”
Brain training may be trendy, and some Read the rest of this entry »
An Aurora family has been awarded a $6.5 million settlement in connection with a brain injury to their son caused by alleged negligence.
The settlement was reached on behalf of a now-7-year-old child who allegedly suffered a brain injury at birth at Provena Mercy Medical Center, the Beacon News reports.
Attorneys for the boy, Roberto Morales, Jr., say the attending obstetrician, as well as the labor and delivery nurse, failed to respond to the Read the rest of this entry »
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla.
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Jan. 14
/PRNewswire/ — The American Senior Fitness Association (SFA) has announced a new brain fitness training program designed for exercise professionals. Brain Fitness for Older Adults teaches senior fitness instructors and personal trainers how to incorporate effective cognitive fitness into physical activity programs, offering seniors the opportunity to boost both physical and mental fitness simultaneously. Details Read the rest of this entry »
About The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation’s first pediatric hospital.
Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care,
training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals and pioneering
major research initiatives, Children’s Hospital has fostered many discoveries
that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program Read the rest of this entry »
Your brain, on a diet
12:00 AM CST on Tuesday, January 13, 2009
maryjacobs44@yahoo.com
If you want to lose weight, you know what you need to do. You need to eat less and exercise more. Simple. And yet you don’t do it.
The truth is, most of us aspiring skinny people don’t need another diet or a new fitness regime. We need a mental regime. We need to figure out how to fuel the willpower and put mind over flab.
Think about it: “The thing that Read the rest of this entry »