Techniques and devices to restore cognition

Techniques and devices to restore cognition.

Executive planning, the ability to direct and sustain attention, language and several types of memory may be compromised by conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, cancer, autism, cerebral palsy and Alzheimer's disease. No medical devices are currently available to help restore these cognitive functions. Recent findings about the neurophysiology of these conditions in humans coupled ...

Input Devices and Techniques

Acupuncture techniques and devices.

Oxygen-conserving techniques and devices.

OCDs are available and their use is growing in the home care market because of economic factors associated with LTOT, but this trend has evolved with little clinical research. There is great variability among the oxygen control systems, and physicians need to test patients on each device, at each activity level the patient is capable of in the home, and to write a prescription for each activity...

Alcohol and Cognition; From Neurotoxicity Prevention to Cognitive Rehabilitation

Alcohol provokes different molecular pathways contributing to a clinically significant neurotoxicity in different brain areas. Affected cognition in alcoholics can influence both daily life functioning and alcohol craving management abilities. Preventing alcohol-induced neurotoxicity with different neuroprotective pharmacological interventions is receiving strong scientific backgrounds from pub...