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Credit: Specna Arms East Hanover, NJ. May 5, 2021. Kessler Foundation received a $219,941 award from The Geneva Foundation for a two-year study: MIRROR Collaboration: A novel treatment for neck pain in active-duty military personnel: The Cervigard Neck Collar. This funding builds upon the Foundation's participation as one of the civilian sites participating in the Musculoskeletal Injury Rehabilitation Research for Operational Readiness (MIRROR) program, headquartered at the Uniformed Services University (USU) in Bethesda, Maryland. Lead investigators are Nathan Hogaboom, PhD, co-director of ...

Social cognition may exert a central role in the daily lives of MS patients An international team of multiple sclerosis (MS) researchers showed that longitudinal changes in social cognition are associated with psychological outcomes of daily living, suggesting that x. The article, "Social Cognition in Multiple Sclerosis: A 3-Year Follow-Up MRI and Behavioral Study" (doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11030484) was published on March 9, 2021, in Diagnostics. It is available open access at https:/ / . The authors are Helen M. Genova, PhD, of Kessler Foundation's Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscienc...

. The authors are Helen M. Genova, PhD, of Kessler Foundation's Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Research, and Stefano Ziccardi, PhD, Marco Pitteri, PhD, and Massimiliano Calabrese, MD, of the University of Verona. Dr. Genova also has an academic appointment at Rutgers University. Some recent MS research, including work led by Dr. Genova, has shown that social cognition deficits may affect people with MS who otherwise have no other cognitive impairments. Social cognition, which is required to understand and process the emotions of others, is an extremely important skill set for for...

Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. April 21, 2021. Kessler Foundation researchers showed that people with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience subtle language impairments that standard neuropsychological tests may incorrectly attribute to impaired executive functions. The article, “The role of language ability in verbal fluency of individuals with multiple sclerosis” (doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2021.102846) was published on February 16, 2021, in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. The authors are Nancy D. Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of the Centers for Neuropsychology, Neuroscience, and T...

The nursery told his family it was worried about his safety and advised him to take a leave of absence. He is a friendly man and shook hands or patted people on the back or shoulder, his mother said, and so he stayed home and practiced social distancing. But when Janie Hamblin, a job coach with Chinook Enterprises, a non-profit organization that helps people with disabilities find jobs, called about his returning after the beginning at the year, she was told his position had been eliminated. How did he feel? "Sad," he said. He wanted a chance to prove that he could be safe at work.