TORONTO - Imagine eating a certain food and "tasting" a colour. Or seeing an object that elicits a particular smell. Or hearing a particular piece of music and feeling as if you are physically flying in concert with the sound. Such simultaneous sense experiences are...
Patients made three times as much progress following speech and language therapy if their brains had first been stimulated with a magnetic coil. The non-invasive technique was used to temporarily shut down properly functioning parts of the brain so that the side which...
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA — Thomas “TC” Maslin easily reads to himself the local newspaper or latest issue of the Economist. Reading aloud a simple children’s book is another story. “Five little ducks went out one day. Over the hills and far away. The woman duck said...
Youth football players are not more vulnerable to head hits in games if they take part in fewer contact drills during practices, a new study published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering showed. The study, conducted by researchers from the Virginia Tech-Wake...
The Canadian Medical Association Journal has issued new guidelines to help manage concussions and reduce the risk of second-impact symptom, which can be fatal. These guidelines follow on the heels of a study that showed recent National Hockey League rule changes did...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Close to 2 million people are affected by traumatic brain injury, or TBI, every year. After an injury, the goal is to preserve as much of the brain function as possible. Researchers are hoping a hormone our bodies produce naturally can help bring...
Sedentary people are 20 percent more likely to suffer a stroke than those who regularly break a sweat, according to South Australian researchers. Dr Michelle McDonnell, from the University of South Australia, studied 27,000 Americans aged over 45 who had been...
Journalist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell is an outspoken advocate of banning college football on health grounds, and his appearance on CNN’s ‘GPS with Fareed Zakaria‘ has turned up the volume another notch. Zakaria asked Gladwell to defend hiscontroversial...
Anosmia or the loss of the ability to perceive smell can profoundly affect our eating and drinking behaviours, sometimes permanently, remembering that it's pre and post nasal smell, along with taste that forms our appreciation of flavour. So what causes anosmia, and...
Ask preschooler Zane Pike to write his name or the alphabet, then watch this 4-year-old's stubborn side kick in. He spurns practice at school and tosses aside workbooks at home. But Angie Pike, Zane's mom, persists, believing that handwriting is a building block to...
Ally Carr was learning how to slide into home plate this spring when she tore the meniscus in her knee. She had to have surgery to repair the tear and missed much of the season. The 16-year-old softball catcher at Maret School hopes to be fully recovered in time to...
While sports medicine has gained a deeper understanding of head injuries in recent years, protective headgear hasn't kept pace, and that is particularly true when it comes to bicycle helmets, experts in the field tell CBC News. Bike helmets were designed to protect...
LINCOLN, Neb. — If all goes according to Dennis Molfese’s plan, the day is coming when a football player who takes a hit to the head will come to the sideline, take off his helmet and slip on an electrode-covered mesh cap. The team’s medical staff will analyze the...
If one survey of teens in Ontario, Canada, is any indication, as many as one in five seventh-through-twelfth graders has experienced some kind of traumatic brain injuryin his or her life. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from...
TORONTO -- An experimental procedure that stimulates the brain with electrical pulses through the skull may help people recover the ability to speak after suffering a stroke, researchers say. Up to 30 per cent of stroke survivors are left with a condition called...