The NOGGINS AND NEURONS Podcast

Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD: Surviving & Recovering p̄ SCI, CVA, TBI Noggins & Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! OVERVIEW: Dr. Berk: So, I think devices offer a really improved approach to neurologic problems and they don’t need to be taken every day like a pill, so compliance is 100% and up until now we really haven’t had many devices in the field. But I think going forward we will…...

Heim, Drake, & Millar: Cerebellar Ataxia, PART 2 Noggins & Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! OVERVIEW: Stephen: Even as simple as cracking an egg, I cannot do it one handed, I can’t do it 2-handed any more…so, I got on Amazon and if you put in 1-handed, a whole list of items comes up and I got an egg cracker that I can put the egg in and crack it with one hand. It’s a device, a lot...

Heim, Drake, & Millar: Cerebellar Ataxia, PART 1 Noggins & Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! OVERVIEW: Meredith: The brain stimulation program that we’re doing at Hopkins is we’re applying transcranial direct current stimulation to people who’ve had multiple types of brain injuries. The most common population that we see are strokes. The concept of this non-invasive brain stimulati...

Jennica & Suzanne from Trio Rehab: PART III Noggins & Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! EPISODE SUMMARY: In this episode of NOGGINS & NEURONS: Brain Injury Recovery Simplified, Pete and Deb talk with Jennica Colvin and Suzanne McCrum from Trio Rehabilitation in Texas. We learned about private clinic ownership and more. Topics we covered include: Jennica encourages listeners to foll...

Jennica & Suzanne from Trio Rehab: PART II Noggins & Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! EPISODE SUMMARY: In this episode of NOGGINS & NEURONS: Brain Injury Recovery Simplified, Pete and Deb talk with Jennica Colvin and Suzanne McCrum from Trio Rehabilitation in Texas. We learned about private clinic ownership and more. Topics we covered include: How Suzanne uses treadmill training f...

Jennica & Suzanne from Trio Rehab: PART I Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! OVERVIEW: Pete, Deb, Jennica and Suzanne get to know each other EPISODE SUMMARY: In this episode of NOGGINS & NEURONS: Brain Injury Recovery Simplified, Pete and Deb talk with Jennica Colvin and Suzanne McCrum from Trio Rehabilitation in Texas. We learned about private clinic ownership and more....

Jus' a lil' bit o' Everything Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! OVERVIEW: Pete and Deb chat about Pete’s Blog, music and brain recovery EPISODE SUMMARY: In this episode of NOGGINS & NEURONS: Brain Injury Recovery Simplified, Pete and Deb talk about Pete’s Blog, Facebook groups, and Listening to music can help with aphasia The challenges of the unknown for survivors, fam...

Emotions After Brain Injury: The Recap Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! OVERVIEW: Pete and Deb chit chat EPISODE SUMMARY: In this episode of NOGGINS & NEURONS: Brain Injury Recovery Simplified, Pete and Deb talk about what we learned about from Drs. Zupan and Neumann. We covered: The new FACES app release information and understanding who should use the app, which is r...

Emotion Perception After TBI/Stroke w/ Drs. Zupan & Neumann PART 2 Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! OVERVIEW ZUPAN: I think as therapists if you’re really looking for something tangible to use just grab a movie or a tv show and, you know, stop and pause at various scenes. I think that would be a really useful task that you could get that more, I always say ecologically...

Emotion Perception After TBI/Stroke w/ Drs. Zupan & Neumann Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! NEUMANN: And every time something was brought up, you know, we would show them this picture, his face would be as flat as can be but his physiological responses, his arousal of responses were really strong every time he saw one of these emotion stimuli. And it was amazing becau...

Brain Injury Vision Recovery Recap Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! OVERVIEW - Conversation: Pete and Deb joke about Pete’s microphone being on the floor and his pre-podcast snacking. We also talk a bit about equipment design and fabrication because Deb’s friend and OT colleague designed a new piece of adaptive equipment. Pete shared his experience around production ba...

Mary Warren: Vision and Brain Injury. Part II Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! DEB: So sometimes when we’re working with someone who needs extra time, we might think it’s because of a motor problem, we might think it’s because of fatigue and maybe even memory, but it could be because they’re not visually taking in their environment properly.   WARREN: Yeah. That’s exac...

Mary Warren: Vision and Brain Injury. Part I  Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! WARREN: They are very concerned about falling and running into something. If you have a hemianopia you’re going to have some collusions right off the bat. And they walk very slowly or they do a thing where they stare straight ahead and just walk towards a target and hope they make it. These...

Listener Q's & Decoding Teasell Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! DEB: An easy question for you to answer from JE. She is wondering, ‘Is there ever a time when spasticity turns itself off?’   PETE: Yes, there is a time when it turns off and that’s when they’re sleeping. Then that had implications for things like a splint that you can’t get on when they’re awake, you mig...

Pete & Deb Review Teasell's Insights Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! DEB: Dr. Teasell said that the reasons that therapists have for not doing these things...so they include not having enough time, being busy...and I understand all of this. I do, because I’ve been in those shoes...all of those reasons...he said that they’re legit. And I think that whatever our reasons...

Stroke and TBI Recovery with Dr. Robert Teasell MD: Part II Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! TEASELL: ...second of all, try and develop ways in which we can move things forward. You know? Not necessarily get to the you know, I say research is always about trying to get to the truth, and we’re far from it and our piece, hopefully, will get us a little closer to it, but...

Stroke and TBI Recovery with Dr. Robert Teasell MD: Part I Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: CLICK HERE or scan below! PETE:  When I first got involved in clinical research, I remember there was this statistic that the lag time between bench and bedside and rehabilitation was 15-20 years and the idea was you know that in oncology you couldn’t have that much lag time because people die of cancer...

More Listener Q's & More StrokEngine Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: PETE: And having other kinds of problems like diabetes flares up or whatever it is...and so they cycle back through to the therapist and what the therapist sees is not the people getting better because they’re gone. They’re Kathy Spencer...they’re people that are living their life and going to work and doing stuff that’s impo...

EPISODE TITLE: Deb's Trip & Listener Questions Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group: DEB: I think too, that if we do a case study and we talk about it and we kinda say what our process is and the way that we think about things and link it to the research, maybe it will help clinicians to know that they’re probably thinking about things the right way. I think sometimes there’s just insecurities aroun...

Brain 'Splain Pete Style Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group EPISODE TITLE: Brain ‘Splain Pete Style DEB: What? PETE: So, I’ve got a funny story for you...So, my college had a career development day. And they wanted people to do an hour, hour and a half on whatever they wanted to do and people were doing it on how to run a good zoom meeting and how to grab a great power point and a lot of other int...

StrokEngine: A-Z Treatment Options    Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group DEB: Acupuncture has to do with stimulating certain trigger points along the body’s meridian lines to help regulate the flow of energy or chi. They looked at this in the different phases of stroke and they found that it’s not more helpful in general. So they looked at in terms of balance, cognitive function, depression, dexte...

What Makes a Great Therapist? Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group “I want to do what I did with the smaller group earlier this week and read you my favorite letter. Because, I think the thing that pushes me and everything...My why...My purpose...are embedded in the idea of service in care to others. Meaning all of those to self, to family, to community, the society. And, if you’re not clearly in to...

Sleep: Vital for Everyone, Essential for Survivors Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group DEB: Did you know that rest and sleep are considered occupations? The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework is a document that we use in occupational therapy to guide the process of what we do in OT and it also explains what occupations are and what they mean. And sleep preparation is a thing in the OTPF and it...

Dr. Jones, TexMex, and Synaptic Connections Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group   PETE: Hey everybody, this is Pete. I just wanted to jump in real quick and tell you about a mistake I made. I forgot to put the bio for our interview with Dr. Theresa Jones ahead of the actual interview. So, I’m gonna put the bio at the beginning of this episode, which kinda works because it is a review of the episode...

Rodents and Recovery with Behavioral Neuroscientist Dr. Theresa A. Jones Noggins And Neurons Facebook Group Rodents and Recovery with Behavioral Neuroscientist Dr. Theresa A. Jones PETE: So one of the things I find interesting about fMRI’s...it doesn’t directly measure neuroplastic change and I always thought you would have to get really lucky drilling a hole through the skull, through the meninge...