05 Jun How to Date with a Brain Injury
Many people living with brain injury ask “will anyone date me after I have had a brain injury”? The answer is yes. While dating with brain injury is a little known topic, more people are...
03 Jun [Video] TEDTalk – How Aphasia Affects the Brain
Aphasia is a loss of language, not a loss of intellect. Over 2 million Americans are living with aphasia as a result of a stroke, brain injury, or neurodegenerative disease. In this video, you can learn...
01 Jun What is Aphasia
Experiencing a stroke can result in many different kinds of cognitive conditions. The most well-known condition resulting from a stroke is called aphasia. Aphasia is the loss of language. Aphasia is a condition that...
25 May How SLPs Help Stroke Patients with Aphasia
Speech-language pathologists (SLP’s) play a huge role in stroke rehabilitation. Strokes often cause aphasia. Aphasia can present as a loss of language or as having difficulty comprehending speech. SLP’s may help patients with stroke not...
18 May [Video] TEDTalk – What Happens During a Stroke?
Every two seconds, someone in the world has a stroke. Strokes are extremely common, one out of every six people will have one, but what exactly happens? We love this talk because Dr. Vaibhav Goswami...
13 May How and Why You Need to Start an Aphasia Support Group
Aphasia is a devastating result of a stroke that can impair a person’s ability to produce and understand language. Aphasia is life-changing, and routine tasks become challenging. Communication is a socially dependent skill and relies...
04 May 4 Cognitive Changes After a Stroke
Strokes (or cerebrovascular accidents) are life-changing for people of all ages. While physical changes are common, cognitive changes can occur and impact independence causing people to need support services. Here are 4 important cognitive changes...
01 May [Video] TEDTalk – My Stroke of Insight
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's unique research and medical background makes her Tedtalk extremely insightful. Before she experienced her stroke she was working in a lab that was focused on mapping out the brain. Their goal...
27 Sep The Seizing Brain: Epilepsy and Seizures Discussed
Epilepsy: What is it? Epilepsy is a neurological condition that affects 3 million adults, with 1.8 million still having seizures despite intervention. Interventions for epilepsy include pharmaceutical treatment, neurosurgery, ketogenic diets, implants and stimulation therapies. Epilepsy...
09 Aug What Are Neurofeedback & Neurostimulation?
The rise of the 20th century brought innovations that have changed both assessment and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. For years, the brain has remained a mystery as the only insights into structural and...