Grant: Emerging Team Grant: Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine - LOI

Every day we are required to perform or switch between multiple tasks simultaneously. Our ability to perform such multi-tasking, although usually taken for granted, is important for being independent and for successfully participating at work and in recreation. Acquired brain injuries, even mild ones, disrupt such ability making full return-to-function challenging. Presently, 80% of all traumatic brain injuries are mild and the subsequent functional disabilities are poorly or miss diagnosed leading to little or no treatment and premature return-to-function. The resulting economic and emotional burden on the brain injured person, their families and society is an important health issue. Our multi-disciplinary team blends many areas of research to provide much needed scientific evidence about multi-tasking deficits following a milder traumatic brain injury and to develop clinical tools to better assess and rehabilitate such deficits.