Cancelled Stent Study for Strokes Reveals Implications for Evidence-Based Medicine and Surgical Interventions

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I recently read an article in the New York Times that made me think about some issues around how medical testing works. The article talked about a randomized, controlled study that aimed to prevent strokes by implanting a stent into the brain. One group received the stent surgery, while the control group received no surgical [...]

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Posted September 12, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Neuroscience, Posit Science software, Research studies

A Rare Side Effect of Surgery: A Funky Foreign Accent

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File this under strange but true: I recently saw a news story about a woman who had minor dental surgery and woke up from the operation speaking with a foreign accent. Post-surgery, Oregon native Karen Butler awoke to find she now spoke with a hodgepodge European accent. Doctors thought it might fade, but two years [...]

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Posted May 17, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience

Brain Plasticity Inc. to Receive $3.65 Million Funding for Schizophrenia & Stroke Research

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This week, we learned that Brain Plasticity Inc. (BPI), a new “technology incubator”, has received $3.65 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct research on software-based programs. They have been awarded $3 million to work on creating and testing a cognitive program for people with schizophrenia, as well as $650,000 for people [...]

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Posted August 19, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, Neuroscience, Research studies

Daily TED Talk – Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight

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This week I’m posting a favorite brain-related TED video each day. In this talk from TED 2008, brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor tells an incredible story about studying her own stroke and long recovery process from the inside out. Enjoy!

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Posted February 12, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends