This research was conducted by the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas and was published Wednesday in the online open-access journal Frontiers in Neurology. While the fastest recovery occurs in the first six months following trauma, specific TBI programs can be applied to achieve continued improvements as the new experiment shows. The study enrolled, 20 adolescents aged 12 to 20 years, who had suffered TBI at least six months prior to participating in the research. The participants were exhibiting gist-reasoning deficits, which is the inability to extract relevant meaning from complex information. Gist reasoning is deeply associated with cognitive abilities, such as working memory, which involves holding pieces of temporary information and changing them, as in mental arithmetic and the ability to filter out useless information.
Mark Kelly speaks at brain injury conference in Carlsbad
CARLSBAD (CBS 8) - It has been a little more than two years since Mark Kelly's wife, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was nearly assassinated after a gunman shot her in the head. Since then, Giffords has made a remarkable recovery and become an inspiration for...