PHOENIX: Using eye-tracking glasses, a professor has developed a new method to determine how novice medical students learn compared to more experienced medical professionals.

“Many traditional assessment strategies in medical education rely on tabulating learners’ scores in order to obtain grades. In the real world, Read More »

PHILADELPHIA: New research shed’s light on brain’s progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer’s-type dementia by showing the typical patterns.

The study showed that different cognitive areas (language, inhibition, visuo-spatial processing, working memory, executive functions, etc) do not change in a uniform way. Cognitive Read More »

BOSTON: A new promising treatment helps repair brain damage caused by mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with a patent-pending near-infrared light therapy (NILT) applied directly to the brain, penetrating the skin and skull to regenerate brain cell functioning. According to doctors this represents a “medical Read More »

PHOENIX: Energy drinks may be associated with traumatic brain injury in teenagers, according to a recent study.

Researchers found that people who reported a traumatic brain injury in the past year were seven times more likely to have consumed at least five energy drinks in Read More »