Latest Brain Rehab News:

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Attending the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE

Date: May 28-31

Drake will be out of the office! He will be learning about the brain for better management of chronic disorders. 

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New Researcher: Eye Tests Predict Parkinson’s-Linked Cognitive Decline 18 Months Ahead  

Jan 19, 

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• studied 77 people with Parkinson’s disease and found that simple vision tests predicted who would go on to get dementia after a year and a half.

• The new study also found that those who went on to develop Parkinson’s dementia had losses in the wiring of the brain, including in areas relating to vision and memory. The researchers used recently developed methods to analyze finely detailed MRI scans, enabling them to pick up the damage to the brain’s white matter

• The research team also found changes to the levels of some neurotransmitters (chemical messengers) in people at risk of cognitive decline, suggesting that receptors for those transmitters may be potential targets for new drug treatments for Parkinson’s dementia.

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New Researcher: Brain Stimulation Reduces Dyslexia Deficits  

Sept 8

• Restoring normal patterns of rhythmic neural activity through non-invasive electrical stimulation of the brain alleviates sound-processing deficits and improves reading accuracy in adults with dyslexia

• The phonological deficit in dyslexia is associated with changes in rhythmic or repetitive patterns of neural activity in the sound-processing region of the brain called left auditory cortex.

•  The findings may pave the way to non-invasive therapeutic interventions aimed at normalizing oscillatory function in the auditory cortex and improving phonological processing in individuals with dyslexia.