Sentences with phrase «in people with traumatic brain injury»

A recent article by Kessler Foundation researchers describes Actual Reality ™ as a new tool for assessing performance of activities of everyday life (ADL) in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Denise Krch, PhD, and James Sumowski, PhD, research scientists in the Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Laboratory at Kessler Foundation, received a $ 379,000 grant to study cognitive reserve in people with traumatic brain injury.

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This funding has provided us with the means to create a new community art center, merging fine art and innovative state of the art digital technologies and will offer access to artistic self - expression to people who have intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities and traumatic brain injuries and have interests in the arts.

Another 280,000 people with traumatic brain injuries linger in a minimally conscious state (MCS), with wavering awareness and a sporadic ability to respond to stimuli.

The team worked with 55 people who had experienced a traumatic brain injury or lack of oxygen to the brain and were in a minimally conscious or vegetative state.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

About 5.3 million people in the US are living with a traumatic brain - injury - related disability, ranging from mild sensory impairment to persistent coma.

Researchers report that one tiny variation in the sequence of a gene may cause some people to be more impaired by traumatic brain injury (TBI) than others with comparable wounds.

High - stakes lawsuits, including ones filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to come up with methods for diagnosing and tracking the disorder in living people, but such efforts have just crossed the starting line, researchers said last week at a traumatic brain injury conference in Washington, D.C. Only in the past month or so have they arrived at a consensus about what CTE looks like in postmortem brain tissue, findings presented this week in Washington, D.C., at the American Academy of Neurology meeting.

In addition, the company is testing its video game on people with Alzheimer's disease, autism, depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI)-- conditions believed to share a common weakness in the brain system that integrates sensory inputIn addition, the company is testing its video game on people with Alzheimer's disease, autism, depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI)-- conditions believed to share a common weakness in the brain system that integrates sensory inputin the brain system that integrates sensory inputs.

In addition, the Commission will establish and maintain, in conjunction with the New Jersey Department of Health, a central registry of all persons who sustain traumatic brain injurieIn addition, the Commission will establish and maintain, in conjunction with the New Jersey Department of Health, a central registry of all persons who sustain traumatic brain injuriein conjunction with the New Jersey Department of Health, a central registry of all persons who sustain traumatic brain injuries.

Her work is designed to help people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), an impairment caused by damage to critical white matter in the brain.

Kessler Foundation conducts research in people with cognitive and mobility deficits caused by multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury and other neurological disorders.

Dr. Malaspina continued «I think three of the interesting factors that have been linked to the risk of schizophrenia are severe stress in a stress - sensitive person who has underlying genes for schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury in those with underlying genes for schizophrenia, and, very importantly, cannabis exposure in early adolescence.»

«We know that the proposed intervention has been effective in autism, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury and in our own pilot data in people with MS,» remarked Dr. Genova.

A traumatic brain injury lawyer in Bardstown will prepare for traumatic brain injury cases by beginning with the back story of the injured person, including his abilities and accomplishments before the accident in order to get a baseline.

John acts for plaintiffs in serious injury matters, including for persons with traumatic brain injuries, and orthopedic, paraplegia, and quadriplegia injuries.

Every year there are millions of people in the U.S. that suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from a fall, a motor vehicle accident, a collision with a moving or...

The SABS definition of catastrophic impairment also includes a physical impairment or combination of physical impairment that results in 55 per cent or more impairment of the whole person, or mental or behavioural impairment excluding traumatic brain injury, combined with a physical impairment that results in 55 per cent or more impairment of the whole person.

Every year there are millions of people in the U.S. that suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from a fall, a motor vehicle accident, a collision with a moving or stationary objects, and from assaults.

Additional specialists such as neurologists, psychologists and others may participate in the treatment of people with more permanent conditions such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) or spinal cord injury.

Subject to subsections (2) and (5) a mental or behavioural impairment, excluding traumatic brain injury, determined in accordance with the rating methodology in Chapter 14, Section 14.6 of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 6th edition, 2008, that, when the impairment score is combined with a physical impairment described in paragraph 6 in accordance with the combining requirements set out in the Combined Values Table of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 4th edition, 1993, results in 55 percent or more impairment of the whole person.

Preinjury emotional and family functioning in caregivers of persons with traumatic brain injury

Changes in ratings of caregiver burden following a community - based behavior management program for persons with traumatic brain injury