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Publications | Path to Reading - 0 views

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    "Neuroscience Behind PATH program:"
Dennis OConnor

At the Cusp of Solving Cognitive Aging? - Mike Merzenich - Medium - 0 views

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  • the ACTIVE Study.
  • hree different theories
  • ...24 more annotations...
  • memory
  • reasoning
  • speed of processing
  • ACTIVE tracked people for 10 years
  • 74 to 84
  • who would have expected faster cognitive processing speed 10 years later
  • The big question was do those gains transfer to real-world activities.And, the answer is: they do.
  • At the end of 10 years
  • about three years more protection against decline
  • speed training
  • ● 38% less risk of onset of depressive symptoms● 30% less risk of deepening of depressive symptoms● 68% stronger feeling of confidence and control● 48% less risk of at-fault car crashes
  • I (Mike Merzenich) have spent decades studying brain plasticity — the brain’s ability to change (at any age), chemically, structurally and functionally.
  • What changes in the brain as it gets older?
  • basic science question
  • every single thing we measured in the aging brain changed (and none for the better).
  • The top row
  • we built a brain-training program designed to make a rat’s brain faster and more accurate.
  • to improve auditory precision and speed.
  • It turns out that this kind of brain training — continuously and progressively challenging the speed and accuracy of brain processing — improves every aspect of brain health we could measure.
  • we could build, test, refine and validate a training program to improve all the major systems of the brain.
  • plasticity-based training
  • cognition (eg, speed, attention, memory, executive function)
  • quality of life (eg, mood, confidence, self-rated health)
  • dementia?
Dennis OConnor

Osteopathic Medical Associates - San Diego - 0 views

shared by Dennis OConnor on 13 Oct 19 - No Cached
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    Website for our center
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Lyme Disease Stories | Bay Area Lyme Foundation - 0 views

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    Impressive line up of patient stories. Are you interested in sharing your story? We'd like to hear from you."
Dennis OConnor

Bay Area Lyme Foundation - Website - 1 views

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    "Bay Area Lyme Foundation 884 Portola Road, Suite A7 Portola Valley, CA 94028"
Dennis OConnor

In Search of a Cure for Lyme Disease: The Disulfiram Story | Bay Area Lyme Foundation - 0 views

  • What does an anti-alcoholism drug have to do with Lyme disease? Nothing—until a 2016 study funded by Bay Area Lyme Foundation found a link. From around 2014 through 2017, two labs on opposite coasts—one at Johns Hopkins University and one at Stanford—were testing thousands of FDA-approved drugs to identify an existing drug that worked against “persister” forms of Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the bacteria that causes Lyme disease(1,2,3,4). Why were they doing this?
Dennis OConnor

ReWalk 6.0 - 0 views

shared by Dennis OConnor on 08 Oct 19 - No Cached
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    Janice O'Connor will be testing this device at VIP Nuero-Rehab on 10/10/19 "It's not just walking - it's More Than Walking: ReWalk is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that provides powered hip and knee motion to enable individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) to stand upright, walk, turn, and climb and descend stairs*. ReWalk is the first exoskeleton to receive FDA clearance for personal and rehabilitation use in the United States."
Dennis OConnor

Patient Voices "This is Bad Enough" - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Elspeth Murray recites the poem that was included at the International Initiative in Mental Health Leadership Conference in Edinburgh in 2006, where she conducted poetry workshops."
Dennis OConnor

RDMD - Be part of the solution for your rare disease - 0 views

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    ""Patients shouldn't be bystanders in drug development." - Onno Faber (Founder of RDMD) Four years ago, I started experiencing hearing loss in my left ear. Doctors prescribed me steroids, thinking it was an infection, but the deterioration did not slow down. After numerous failed treatments, a specialist finally ordered an MRI, whereupon he discovered a large tumor on my left hearing nerve. Months later, another tumor was discovered in my right hearing nerve, and another on my spine. I was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease called NF2 (Neurofibromatosis Type 2), a disease that affects only 1 in 30,000 people. It completely changed my perspective. All my life, I've been a technology entrepreneur, beginning with a tech company I started in high school. I'm now applying everything I've learned throughout my career to build RDMD, where we're helping to accelerate treatments for patients with rare disease. Our mission is ambitious, but I can't imagine working on anything more important than this. - Onno"
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