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“WAR’S NEW WOUNDS. A shock wave of brain injuries”
That was the headline in a Washington Post article written by Ronald Glasser, published on Sunday, April 8, 2007. It reported a rather astounding statistic that applies to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: About 30% of soldiers in those conflicts have been directly exposed to IED or other powerful explosions. That exposure has resulted in diffuse physical trauma to their brains. To paraphrase Mr. Glasser, detonation of any powerful explosive generates a blast wave of high pressure that spreads out at about twice the speed of sound away from the explosion, and travels with great force over hundreds of yards. T...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - April 12, 2007 Category: Neurologists Authors: Michael Merzenich Tags: Aging and the Brain Brain Fitness Brain Trauma, Injury Cognitive impairments “Chemobrain” and Related Causes of Cognitive Impairment Source Type: blogs

More, better, quicker. New middle/high school computer-based language training programs
I attended a scientific meeting two weeks ago in which Bill Jenkins, the program development team leader at Scientific Learning, described a radically improved version of one of their middle- and high school-targeted language learning programs (which they call “Literacy Advanced”). They have completely re-worked the game-play aspects of these exercises. Changes resulted in very significant improvements in training efficiency. Even though the content in the exercises has been increased by 29%, these more efficient and more engaging exercises are actually completed (high-schoolers’ speech reception and ...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - April 12, 2007 Category: Neurologists Authors: Michael Merzenich Tags: Autism Origins, Treatments Brain Fitness Childhood Learning Cognitive Impairment in Children Cognitive impairments Language Development Posit Science Reading and Dyslexia Source Type: blogs