East Hanover, NJ. September 16, 2022. Researchers have reported findings that add to our knowledge of how human behavior may be shaped by the default mode netwo
Kessler Foundation experts in stroke rehabilitation proposed a new paradigm for improving treatment of spatial neglect, a disabling condition that hinders recovery for at least 30 percent of stroke survivors.
This Viewpoint describes a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine about postinjury care for traumatic brain injury (TBI), wit
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ATLANTA, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ NeuroTrauma Sciences, LLC (NTS), a private biopharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of disease-modifying therapeutic candidates to treat the devastating effects of acquired brain injury, today announced it has entered into a research collaboration with Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium, to help support Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI), a prospective longitudinal observational study that is collecting clinical and epidemiological data to identify the most effective clinical care and treatment recommendations, develop and validate surrogate biomarkers of injury and recovery, and improve the classification of traumatic brain injury (TBI) to enable targeted therapies.
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The authors are Helen M. Genova, PhD, of Kessler Foundation s Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Research, and Stefano Ziccardi, PhD, Marco Pitteri, PhD, and Massimiliano Calabrese, MD, of the University of Verona. Dr. Genova also has an academic appointment at Rutgers University.
Some recent MS research, including work led by Dr. Genova, has shown that social cognition deficits may affect people with MS who otherwise have no other cognitive impairments. Social cognition, which is required to understand and process the emotions of others, is an extremely important skill set for forming successful relationships with others, and deficits in this area can significantly affect a person s quality of life.