Interesting work being done with field-ready, portable EEG systems that are being tested as TBI triage units in hospital emergency departments.  The software algorithms that drive these EEG systems are becoming so sophisticated that a lightweight, simple EEG test is nearly as accurate as a traditional (and expensive/heavyweight) CT scan for TBI related cognitive impairment. [...]

The current issue of the European Journal of Neurology has an article on how to classify mild cases of Traumatic Brain Injury, or mTBI. Using the words mild and traumatic in the same definition seems a bit of an oxymoron, but the author reasonably uses the European Federation of Neurological Societies’ definition, which sets the [...]

With the increasing waves of people at risk for Alzheimer’s and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), the health care industry is grappling with how to provide cognitive diagnostic tools that are easy to administer in a doctor’s office or health clinic, and do not require invasive procedures. Baseline cognitive assessments for memory are an obvious first [...]