NEUROSCIENCE

Stroke

Over the past two years, researchers are uncovering how COVID-19 impacts various organ systems. One organ affected by COVID-19 is the brain, with seve...

25 April 2022

Processing speed deficits are among the most common cognitive deficits patients with stroke experience, along with deficits in attention and executive...

22 April 2022

Experiencing a stroke is a major life event. A stroke may cause someone to lose cognitive and physical abilities, such as not being able to communicat...

18 August 2021

Adults are able to utter about 120 words per minute and may make a speech error once out of every thousand words. If an adult experiences a stroke, th...

11 August 2021

Aphasia commonly occurs after someone experiences a stroke. When a closed head injury occurs in the left hemisphere, a person may lose the ability to ...

9 August 2021

Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States and Canada. People who have experienced a stroke often experience cognitive complications...

19 July 2021

Speech-language pathologists (SLP’s) play a huge role in stroke rehabilitation. Strokes often cause aphasia. Aphasia can present as a loss of langua...

25 May 2020

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 happen...

18 May 2020

Strokes (or cerebrovascular accidents) are life-changing for people of all ages. While physical changes are common, cognitive changes can occur and im...

4 May 2020

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's unique research and medical background makes her Tedtalk extremely insightful.  Before she experienced her stroke she was wor...

1 May 2020

Truamatic Brain Injury

Aerobic exercise has been studied extensively for its physical, mental, and cognitive health benefits. Of interest is how often physical therapists ma...

20 February 2022

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) may sometimes have an unexpected positive impact on one's life. More often than not, TBIs interrupt or inhibit hobbies...

8 November 2021

SLPs are involved in the recovery process of clients with different medical conditions. In acquired brain injury through a motor vehicle accident, dam...

20 September 2021

Natalie is back with some expert advice about how to work with patients who have both ADHD and a TBI. If you love this video you MUST check out her en...

7 July 2021

Brain injuries are complex injuries. Heather Condello and her team of occupational therapists at Complex Injury Rehab - The Brain, Spine & Mental Heal...

26 May 2021

The day has finally arrived. This interview with Natalie is AMAZING! If you work in cognitive rehabilitation from TBIs this is a video you most defini...

26 May 2021

Dr. Taher Chugh treats post-concussion care like he would be training an athlete. He approaches them from a holistic approach and has found remarkable...

29 January 2021

Dr. Amen discusses the importance of brain scans in medical practice. Many clinical providers do not get a chance to look at their client’s brains, ...

2 October 2020

This will be the best, most informative 35 minutes of your day. Concussions are more frequent than many people realize. Kyra's 25 years working with T...

16 September 2020

Occupational therapists are on the front lines working with brain injury. Difficulties OTs face with patients with brain injury include not only the p...

21 August 2020

Social media offers an opportunity for people to connect with one another. On Facebook, people can find ‘groups’ devoted to special interests, cau...

14 August 2020

While exercising regularly promotes physical health, exercising may also provide cognitive benefits. Specifically, attention has been drawn to the pot...

12 August 2020

Professional athletes and everyday people are susceptible to brain injury. What is important for both patients with brain injury and clinical provider...

10 August 2020

While smartphones get a bad reputation from being disruptive in many situations, smartphones can prove to be useful assistive devices for people with ...

15 June 2020

If you search on the internet, you can find a wealth of information regarding the use and effectiveness of telepractice for a variety of medical condi...

12 June 2020

Concussions impact all aspects of a child’s life. Kyra’s background in neurotrauma has set her apart in her field. Kyra explains how and why she ...

10 June 2020

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 ...

5 June 2020

Brain-injury causes not only cognitive and physical disturbance, but emotional. Many patients suffer from depression, with a report of approximately 4...

25 July 2019

New in Neurology

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) can be very detrimental to one’s health and wellbeing. Brain injury commonly causes individuals to have cognitive, m...

15 August 2022

Many survivors of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) often deal with feelings of anger and irritability after their injury. For some, these feelings of an...

12 August 2022

All around the world, many college students encounter various social and academic problems. Among these problems is attention deficit hyperactivity di...

8 August 2022

For many people, being around “green space”, such as grass, plants, forests, and more, is just a factor of their everyday life. However, recent st...

27 July 2022

When a woman reaches her late 40s or 50s, a natural decline in reproductive hormones begins the cycle of menopause. After 12 months without a menstrua...

20 July 2022

Over the past two years, researchers are uncovering how COVID-19 impacts various organ systems. One organ affected by COVID-19 is the brain, with seve...

25 April 2022

Processing speed deficits are among the most common cognitive deficits patients with stroke experience, along with deficits in attention and executive...

22 April 2022

You may be reading a tweet and catch a typo that you want to correct, walk past a pond and see a goldfish from under the water, or do a double-take wh...

25 March 2022

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) refers to diminished cognitive functioning in later age. It is in between a normal cognitive functioning and that lowe...

14 March 2022

Aerobic exercise has been studied extensively for its physical, mental, and cognitive health benefits. Of interest is how often physical therapists ma...

20 February 2022

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) may sometimes have an unexpected positive impact on one's life. More often than not, TBIs interrupt or inhibit hobbies...

8 November 2021

Many people hear the word Neurotherapy but have no idea what exactly it is. In this blog post, we discuss what Neurotherapy is and why it may interest...

5 November 2021

The term “cognitive flexibility” is often said to be an important part of understanding our thoughts and emotions, but what does it even mean? Sim...

1 November 2021

One of the most spellbinding mysteries in psychology and neuroscience is the origin of fear. Fear is an essential emotion that is used to protect ours...

20 October 2021

With October 31st creeping up, we see more and more Halloween décor. Not only are people decorating with carved pumpkins and silly or spooky ghosts, ...

18 October 2021

SLPs are involved in the recovery process of clients with different medical conditions. In acquired brain injury through a motor vehicle accident, dam...

20 September 2021

Experiencing a stroke is a major life event. A stroke may cause someone to lose cognitive and physical abilities, such as not being able to communicat...

18 August 2021

Therapists must often make important decisions regarding how they spend therapy hours with their clients. This involves choosing the kinds of activiti...

16 August 2021

Adults are able to utter about 120 words per minute and may make a speech error once out of every thousand words. If an adult experiences a stroke, th...

11 August 2021

Aphasia commonly occurs after someone experiences a stroke. When a closed head injury occurs in the left hemisphere, a person may lose the ability to ...

9 August 2021

Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States and Canada. People who have experienced a stroke often experience cognitive complications...

19 July 2021

Natalie is back with some expert advice about how to work with patients who have both ADHD and a TBI. If you love this video you MUST check out her en...

7 July 2021

Working memory is a complex cognitive function that consists of three skills: reordering, updating, and dual processing incoming information. Clinical...

2 July 2021

Working memory is a multifaceted cognitive function that allows us to retain and manipulate incoming information for a short period of time. We use wo...

30 June 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about new challenges across all components of the medical field. Clinical providers are learning about how COVID-19 has ...

14 June 2021

Children with autism spectrum disorder may not get enough physical activity in their daily lives. Many physical activities that children at young ages...

4 June 2021

Brain injuries are complex injuries. Heather Condello and her team of occupational therapists at Complex Injury Rehab - The Brain, Spine & Mental Heal...

26 May 2021

The day has finally arrived. This interview with Natalie is AMAZING! If you work in cognitive rehabilitation from TBIs this is a video you most defini...

26 May 2021

Reading is a complex cognitive process that involves a network of connections throughout the entire brain. Oftentimes, educators overlook the neurobio...

17 May 2021

Our brains are made of billions of cells. During development, stem cells receive signals from the outside environment that determine which kind of cel...

5 May 2021

Addressing cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients is a common concern of activity directors, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech-langu...

7 April 2021

Dr. Taher Chugh treats post-concussion care like he would be training an athlete. He approaches them from a holistic approach and has found remarkable...

29 January 2021

Hogeweyk, located in the Netherlands, is one of the few dementia care facilities in the world of its kind. Hogeweyk isn’t your typical hospital-styl...

2 December 2020

Humans need regular social interaction. With older populations, the risk of isolation increases as older adults tend to develop physical disabilities ...

20 November 2020

Preventative health involves manageable changes that people can implement into their everyday lives. Some ways people can actively prevent Alzheimer...

18 November 2020

Alzheimer’s disease is a debilitating neurological disease that occurs when plaques build up within the brain tissue. As the disease progresses, cog...

16 November 2020

Occupational therapists are instrumental in the care of people living with dementia.Occupational therapists have a holistic understanding of how cogni...

11 November 2020

Many people, including therapists, know or will know someone who develops dementia. For people whose parents and grandparents have developed dementia,...

9 November 2020

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a gradual loss of language ability associated with dementia. There are 3 variants of PPA that impact speech and l...

6 November 2020

Language is one of the ways we communicate. It is one that when it is lost it is greatly missed. Kyra's background and work with executive function sk...

30 October 2020

Dr. Amen discusses the importance of brain scans in medical practice. Many clinical providers do not get a chance to look at their client’s brains, ...

2 October 2020

This will be the best, most informative 35 minutes of your day. Concussions are more frequent than many people realize. Kyra's 25 years working with T...

16 September 2020

Occupational therapists are on the front lines working with brain injury. Difficulties OTs face with patients with brain injury include not only the p...

21 August 2020

Social media offers an opportunity for people to connect with one another. On Facebook, people can find ‘groups’ devoted to special interests, cau...

14 August 2020

While exercising regularly promotes physical health, exercising may also provide cognitive benefits. Specifically, attention has been drawn to the pot...

12 August 2020

Professional athletes and everyday people are susceptible to brain injury. What is important for both patients with brain injury and clinical provider...

10 August 2020

If you answered no, then you may want to consider doing so to help you and your patient with aphasia get the most out of therapy. Why? It has bee...

7 August 2020

Did you know that damage to a person’s left hemisphere can change how they make coffee? Damage to the left hemisphere can cause a person to forget...

1 July 2020

While smartphones get a bad reputation from being disruptive in many situations, smartphones can prove to be useful assistive devices for people with ...

15 June 2020

If you search on the internet, you can find a wealth of information regarding the use and effectiveness of telepractice for a variety of medical condi...

12 June 2020

Concussions impact all aspects of a child’s life. Kyra’s background in neurotrauma has set her apart in her field. Kyra explains how and why she ...

10 June 2020

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 ...

5 June 2020

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 neu...

3 June 2020

Experiencing a stroke can result in many different kinds of cognitive conditions. The most well-known condition resulting from a stroke is called aph...

1 June 2020

Speech-language pathologists (SLP’s) play a huge role in stroke rehabilitation. Strokes often cause aphasia. Aphasia can present as a loss of langua...

25 May 2020

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 happen...

18 May 2020

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 rou...

13 May 2020

Strokes (or cerebrovascular accidents) are life-changing for people of all ages. While physical changes are common, cognitive changes can occur and im...

4 May 2020

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's unique research and medical background makes her Tedtalk extremely insightful.  Before she experienced her stroke she was wor...

1 May 2020

Epilepsy: What is it? Epilepsy is a neurological condition that affects 3 million adults, with 1.8 million still having seizures despite interventi...

27 September 2019

The rise of the 20th century brought innovations that have changed both assessment and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. For years,...

9 August 2019

What is Language? While many complex definitions exist, language is the way that people communicate. In a language, words are connected in me...

25 July 2019

Brain-injury causes not only cognitive and physical disturbance, but emotional. Many patients suffer from depression, with a report of approximately 4...

25 July 2019