Both globally and in the United States, twenty percent of the population suffers from chronic pain (Goldberg and McGee, 2011; Dahlhamer et al., 2018). Opioids are one of the most common treatments for pain and have been increasingly prescribed over the past 5 years (Grosser, Woolf, & Fitzgerald, 2017). Though effective at [...]
While self-reported pain scales are low cost and non-invasive, they lack the reproducibility and objectivity of neuroimaging. Objective measures of pain are useful for both clinicians and patients as “chronic pain patients are defined as ‘difficult patients’”(Borsook, Moulton, Schmidt, Becerra, 2007). Pain is difficult to consistently communicate due to neuropsychological factors, and [...]
For the month of February, the Brain Blog we will be covering the topic of pain. One in five adults suffer from pain globally, and approximately 1 and 5 American adults suffered from pain in 2016 (Goldberg and McGee, 2011; Dahlhamer et al., 2018). As of 2019, this translated to at least [...]
As we come to a close on our month dedicated to TBI, we will be discussing novel measures of assessing emotion perception following a TBI, The Complex Audio Visual Emotion Assessment Task (CAVEAT), developed by Rosenberg, McDonald, Rosernberg, & Westbrook (2017). Rosenberg et al. (2017), explain the importance of their research as [...]
As we have previously discussed this month, Traumatic Brain Injuries are complex injuries, driven by interacting mechanisms (Corps, Roth, & McGavern, 2015). Due to the rising rate of TBI diagnosis, it is increasingly important to understand its components and potential methods of treatment (Simon, McGeachy, Bayır, Clark, Loane, & Kochanek, 2017; James,Theadom, [...]
Last week the HBSF Brain Blog published the “Basics of Traumatic Brain Injury”. Where we defined TBI as “a [disruption] of brain function and/or structure due to the application of external physical force that produces sign[s] & symptoms of dysfunction in the acute injury period” (Silver et al., 2019). Though factors such [...]
This month the HBSF Brain Blog will be devoted to posts about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and related disorders such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Silver, McAllister, Arcinegas and the American Psychiatric Association (2019), define TBI as, “a disruptions of brain function and/or structure due to the application of external physical force [...]
Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI), also known as Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), are an emerging technology designed to communicate with the human brain. Though there are many potential uses, these devices can be used as a type of neural prosthesis or as a way to measure electrical activity through electroencephalography (EEG). In our [...]
Howard Brain Sciences Foundation (HBSF) is interested in both the research and utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to spur new advances in detection, treatment, and patient care. AI has countless potential uses as modern Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have become increasingly complex, and thus capable of observing and processing data regarding the [...]
On December 7th 2019, the Howard Brain Sciences Foundation hosted the first annual Brain Matter(s) Gala. With over [...]
