VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

Last week when I came home I found a box of Californian walnuts waiting for me. It was a pleasant surprise and it had been packed very nicely. The walnuts were in a wooden box and along with it I found a book titled “California Walnuts Nutrition and Health” by Geetu Amarnani, a Nutritionist and Lifestyle Management Consultant.

 

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I found the book to be very interesting as I got to know about the benefits of walnuts and various recipes and preparations through which I can incorporate walnuts in my daily diet.

 

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According to Dr. H.K Chopra an ounce i.e. 28 g of walnuts a day keep many ailments like cardiac attacks at bay. They reduce LDL bad cholesterol and give 2.5 gms of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) per serving and are the richest source of omega -3 fatty acids which are not manufactured by our body and obtained though diet.

 

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Walnuts contain other minerals and vitamins like magnesium and phosphorus, which are important minerals in energy metabolism, bone health and regulating heart rhythm. Walnuts are a rich source of antioxidants as compared to any other nut. Not just that, Californian walnuts are delicious and eating 1.5 ounce per day promotes heart health, raises HDL cholesterol, decreases blood pressure, and improves the arterial function so as a result making them an essential food for reducing cardiovascular risk. Moreover research has proved that incorporating the right type of fat especially the type found in walnuts is important and helpful to people with diabetes as walnuts help in managing the metabolic syndrome which increases the risk for coronary disease, stroke, liver and kidney diseases and type-2 diabetes.

 

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According to Geetu Amarnani an ounce i.e. a handful of walnuts provide 4 g of protein and 2 g of fiber and fiber provides a feeling of fullness which promotes weight management, lowers cholesterol and improves blood glucose levels.

 

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Walnuts are also loaded with omega-3s, which makes them a good brain food as the brain needs high-quality fats like omega-3s to function properly.

 

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According to researchers, eating walnuts as a part of a Mediterranean diet was associated with better memory and brain function and the antioxidants present in walnuts may help counteract age-related cognitive decline and reduce the risk of neurogenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s.

 

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The taste, the flavour and nutritional value makes it ideal to be used in salads and recipes like walnut halwa, chicken kofta, seekh kebabs, various puddings, cakes and desserts and I will enjoy eating walnuts more now that I have known all the nutritional and health benefits of them. I will also try to have walnuts as an anytime snack as now I know walnuts are naturally gluten, sodium and cholesterol free.

 

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VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

Cutest flower girl ever! I complimented her on her smile during the family portraits, and she followed me around for the rest of the evening.

 

I seem to have lit this shot! Funny, I don't remember doing it. But I was pretty exhausted by then. The sun had set but there was still light out. So The background is underexposed, and I seem to have bounced the strobe off a white wall or something. On-camera strobe for sure, TTL no doubt.

 

Glad to know I can still get the shot when my upper brain functions have disappeared.

 

Nikon F100, probably my 24-70 f/2.8 lens. Kodak Portra 400 film. SB-28 strobe.

 

The Sterling Hills County Club, Camarillo, CA

  

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VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

A concussion is a common traumatic brain injury that alters your brain functions.It is characterized by headache, and disturbances in concentration, memory, cognition, balance and coordination.

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

Just wanted to let everyone know that my wife is back home and is doing very well. All of her motor skills and memory problems have vanished and she is back to normal. The T I A is quite frightening as it seems like a stroke at first, but after a few hours all of the brain functions are back to normal. This is her second T I A since her stroke and the doctors are puzzled as to why they continue to occur. They are adjusting here medications and hope to head off any further problems. She wanted to thank everyone for their kind thoughts and prayers and we hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend. I’ll be back to posting shortly.

 

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VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

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VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

CHOLINE INTAKE FOR PREGNANCY AND BREASTFEEDING

 

In addition to a daily prenatal vitamin and a daily prenatal DHA supplement, I also recommend a daily prenatal choline supplement.

 

What is Choline?

 

Choline is a macronutrient found in foods. Choline is in the B vitamin family . It is essential in fetal brain development. Choline is a precursor to acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that sends signals in the brain. Acetylcholine, and therefore choline, are important for memory, muscle control and brain function.

 

Choline is involved in many of the same metabolic pathways as folate, including methylation. Everyone knows folate — or its synthetic supplemental version, folic acid — due to its vital role in the prevention of neural tube. Did you know choline is equally as important as folate for preventing neural tube defects?!

 

The major reason choline is not making headlines in prenatal nutrition is that it’s a new kid on the block, relatively speaking. The first time we had a recommended intake for choline was 1998. The data used to set that recommendation was fairly weak; it was set based on a depletion-repletion study conducted in adult men & set at a minimum level to prevent liver damage. These figures were then adjusted upwards for pregnancy/lactation based on estimates of fetal needs.

 

Consuming adequate levels of choline during pregnancy is essential to ensure normal fetal brain development.

 

Our current recommended intake for pregnancy is set at 450 mg.

 

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VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

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VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

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VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

From the session: "The Neuroscience of Art:

What are the Sources of Creativity and Innovation?" (February 21 to 26, 2015)

 

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In recent years, there have been an increasing number of scientific investigations into art, exploring what actually happens in the brain during the creative process. Most of these collaborations have been based in neuroscience and psychological approaches to how art is perceived, produced and created, with music the main focus of studies carried out to date. These studies have yielded important new information that relates to a very basic fact of human biology: all behavior, even that as complex as creativity, can be linked to brain function. Building on this fundamental linkage, the neurobiology of art promises to yield exciting new insights as this research field evolves. Creative behavioral patterns are likely to be a critical component for developing the neurological capacity for innovation.

 

This Salzburg Global program represents a pioneering step to establish a neutral international forum to discuss state-of-the-art findings from a cross-disciplinary perspective, prioritize future research, and expand creative opportunities for learning, innovation and collaboration. While much research is taking place in various national and regional settings, more global dialogue is needed between specialist silos in order to catalyze knowledge exchange around the results, implications and potential practical applications of new cutting-edge research.

This MRI-based technique shows six of the major white matter pathways in the human brain.

 

White matter is important for connecting brain structures and transmitting information quickly – and has even changed the way neuroscientists think about how the brain functions.

 

Although this is purely structural and static, it conveys a feeling of function and fluidity, much like the way we interact with, and perceive, the world.

From the session: "The Neuroscience of Art:

What are the Sources of Creativity and Innovation?" (February 21 to 26, 2015)

 

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In recent years, there have been an increasing number of scientific investigations into art, exploring what actually happens in the brain during the creative process. Most of these collaborations have been based in neuroscience and psychological approaches to how art is perceived, produced and created, with music the main focus of studies carried out to date. These studies have yielded important new information that relates to a very basic fact of human biology: all behavior, even that as complex as creativity, can be linked to brain function. Building on this fundamental linkage, the neurobiology of art promises to yield exciting new insights as this research field evolves. Creative behavioral patterns are likely to be a critical component for developing the neurological capacity for innovation.

 

This Salzburg Global program represents a pioneering step to establish a neutral international forum to discuss state-of-the-art findings from a cross-disciplinary perspective, prioritize future research, and expand creative opportunities for learning, innovation and collaboration. While much research is taking place in various national and regional settings, more global dialogue is needed between specialist silos in order to catalyze knowledge exchange around the results, implications and potential practical applications of new cutting-edge research.

VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

Optical illusions, brain function, who we are, fifth grade, 5th grade, pen and ink, graphic design

VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

VAâs annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. âWe have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,â said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. âToday, the impossible gets challenged.âAfter reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. âWe feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,â said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. âThe King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. âAs a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimerâs disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonâs disease. â  During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VAâs Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a âState of the Scienceâ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

INTERVIEW WITH YOKO ONO

November 1984

New York City

 

Q: We crossed out death on our list.

 

YO: Yes, we have rather exhausted that subject, I think. I'm not

going to say "no" to any issue. In other words, don't worry

about it, it just scared me when I saw the list, but you know,

if you just ask me naturally, it doesn't hurt me. It will be

like a Rorschach test. When you say something, something comes

to my head, I'll say it-so don't worry.

 

Q: Okay, the first subject area is music and art, and the basic

question is, what do you think the sources and/or purposes of

music are?

 

YO: Well, all right - I can only talk about myself. I don't know

what the purpose of music is, but I know what the purpose of

music is for me. For me it's a way of expressing myself-and

sharing my feelings with other people. And I think that,

basically, because I'm a shy person - which will never be

believed - I'm not very good at, or shall we say I'm awkward in

expressing my true feelings to people-whether it's to one, or

the world. And it comes easier for me when I do it in music. And

that's how I do it.

 

Q: Obviously, at some point there must have been a decision on

your part or a sudden revelation that it was music that was your

way of expressing yourself?

 

YO: To tell the truth, I'll tell you the truth, when I was four

years old my mother sent me to school where you got the perfect

pitch and piano lessons, one of those schools where a first

assignment was to compose a song. And my old classmate ... I

bumped into her on the street in Japan much later, and she said,

"Hey, I still have your song:' And I said, "What song?" You

know, I was thinking that maybe she got my record or something.

She said, "No no, when you composed it, you know, in school when

you were four years old:' "Wow, could I have it?" I said. Of

course, I never got it from her. I was writing songs, just as

all the other children were, it's nothing special, and they used

to have, once a month or something, a show for the parents -

they used to have a little concert for parents to come see how

their children were doing. And I was so nervous before I went on

the stage, I started to have this strange tummy ache, and I

threw up. I went on the stage, and I came back, and I threw up

again. I remember that. I was particularly small- many physical

aspects of me they always think of as a Japanese thing, but not

necessarily, I was even small for a Japanese and so this tiny

thing comes on stage and starts to sort of climb up on the chair

to try playing the piano-of course it's funny, so they all

laughed you know. But the thing is, I took it as an offense, you

know what I mean Oh, they're laughing at me. These days when I

see a two-year-old saying something so cute I try to control

myself not to laugh because, I mean, they take it differently

you know. Why are they laughing at me? So I remember

specifically that I was feeling terribly embarrassed because

everybody was laughing, and I was playing the piano. It started

then.

 

It was not my decision, in a way.

 

I continued the piano lessons until my father, who's actually an

incredible pianist-was an incredible pianist-and it was when I

was twelve or thirteen. I was too shy to play the piano in front

of my father because he's a good pianist, but I wanted to tell

him how I was progressing, so when he was in a room, I would go

and play in the next room just to let him know that I was

working. One day I was playing the piano, and I heard my father

say to my mother, "She's never going to make it as a pianist:'

And I thought, "He's right:' He was quite disappointed because,

well, my father had made an appearance as a pianist, and he got

good reviews and all. Well, I don't care if he got good reviews

or not but the main thing was he was a brilliant pianist, and

when he was about twenty-one, I think, his father died, and in

the will the wishes were that my father would not become a

pianist but would go into banking as his father had. And that's

a heavy trip. So anyway, he became a banker instead, and he's

one of those pianists who's always playing the piano at home.

When I was born, my father wanted me to be a pianist so badly. I

was the first born, didn't matter if it's a girl or a boy. So

he'd be sort of looking at my fingers and asking me to do this

or do that, trying to see if I had good hands for a pianist. It

was like that from the beginning.

 

When I was fourteen, I made a big announcement that I wanted to

be a composer not a pianist, and my father was listening very

carefully, very silently, and said, "Hmm - well I think that's a

mistake:' I said, "Oh, why?" Not only had I mustered my courage

to announce that I'm not going to be a pianist, but I want to be

a composer! He's one ofthose very classic persons, believes in

the three big Bs, you know, Brahms, Bach and Beethoven, and all

three ofthem happen to be men, as he politely mentioned. He

thought that music composition, in a word, is a field that's too

hard for women. And he thought that I had a good voice, and

maybe I should go into opera, maybe I can sing at La Scala. For

women it's an easier thing to do - to sing somebody else's

songs, etc. And I know that my voice became a joke in this

society, so people are going to say -oh, no! But I had an

incredibly good voice then, which was when I was around

seventeen or eighteen, and I had instructors who would say that

I could probably make it as an alto, or mezzo-soprano, so I

started opera. I started to dislike it so intensely. I was

supposed to go to music school to study voice, and then

eventually go to Italy. I thought, there's something wrong with

it. I didn't enjoy singing other people's songs. You know, I

like good German lieder and all that, they're beautiful,

beautifully written, I respected all that, but I had an urge to

compose.

 

So instead of going to music school one day I made an

announcement. And this really was an announcement because my

father was in New York at the time, and I had to send a telegram

saying - "Gave up on taking music school exam, going to

university, would like permission .. :'- and my father said, -

"If you really want to give up it's too bad, but .. :' - and so

I went to the university, the philosophy department. I was

happier then because, you know, I was a bookworm and it's nicer

just to read books. Then when I went to Sarah Lawrence, I again

picked up on composition, and it was pretty nice, I wrote some

songs there, and at the time my heroes were the twelve-tone

composers, you know-Schonberg, Berg, those people, and I was

just fascinated with what they could do. I wrote some

twelve-tone songs, then my music went into some sort of area

that my composition teacher felt was really a bit off-the-track,

and one day-as ifhe were exasperated - he said, "Well look,

there are some people who are doing things like what you do, and

they're called avant-garde:'

 

Of course, I came from Japan, I didn't know anything about

avant-garde. That's the first time I heard John Cage's name. I

thought my composition teacher was just saying, "Get off my

back:' I wasn't even paying much attention to what he said. And

Stockhausen, too, I think he was mentioned. Just by chance

though, I met Cage afterwards in New York City at a lecture at

Columbia University. He was attending the lecture as well. We

were sort of introduced. That was in the late fifties, if you

can extend your mind back to the late fifties.

  

THE STRIP-TEASE SHOW

In Kyoto, I had a concert at Yamaichi Hall.

It was called 'The Strip-Tease Show"

(it was stripping of the mind).

When I met the High Monk the next day, he seemed

a bit dissatisfied.

"I went to your concert:' he said.

"Thank you, did you like it?"

"Well, why did you have those three chairs on the

stage and call it a strip-tease by three?"

"If it is a chair or stone or woman, it is the same

thing, my Monk."

"Where is the music?"

"The music is in the mind, my Monk."

"But that is the same with what we are doing, aren't

you an avant-garde composer?"

Grapefruit, Yoko Ono,

(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964).

  

I gradually got into the avant-garde or whatever you call it. At

the time I was married to Toshi Ichianagi. He was a classical

composer who studied in the Juilliard School of Music. He was a

scholarship student there. I was not attending the school but I

used to go to the school library and read the scores that I

would then do at Sarah Lawrence. Toshi was one of those

composers who got prizes every year. You know, it's very

discouraging to see somebody who is like that. He got the

Copland prize, and ... I don't know, every year he got those

prizes. It just comes to him. He's like a child prodigy type who

started very young, you know, one of those. Well, when I met

John Cage I thought-oh this is it! And I said to Toshi, "Do you

realize this is it?" "Well, I've got two minds about that," he

said, because he's sort of in the classical tradition, though

his music now is very avant-garde. But anyway, John Cage was a

bit too extreme for him. Then, later, he got into it too. For

me, from then on it was a lot of avant-gardism, you know, for

many years- until I met John, I suppose. That was 1966. But all

that time I wanted to write songs because I'm a poet as well,

and it combines the two. Even in the avant-garde where they

didn't believe in lyrics, I used to do voice experiments. Now,

at the time, it was not well accepted even in the avant-garde

because the New York avant-garde was into cool art, not hot. And

what I do was too emotional. In a way they thought it was too

animalistic. They were into controlling. They used to control

the voice, rather than letting it out. And then I went to

London, and I was making films and all that, and I met John.

 

After London I went to Paris, and I was still doing little

things in little theatres, and I met Ornette Coleman. Ornette

got interested in my voice experiments and said, "I'm invited to

do a show in Albert Hall and maybe you'd like to join me?" I was

in Paris, and I was having fun, so I wasn't going to go back to

London. Also I had had bad experiences before when people said,

well do you want to do your voice experiments in my concert or

something, they just used me as an instrument and forgot that it

was my composition. So I said, "Listen, if your band is willing

to play my composition, then I'll do if' So he said, "Of course.

It's your composition:' So I went to Albert Hall with Ornette,

and I wrote my instructions for them, and that instruction was

in the program, I think Ornette still has it. Anyway, it had

some four-letter words in it, or whatever it was- I think the

word was "penis," and that's a five-letter word.

 

What happened was the Albert Hall tried to threaten us that

they're going to close the show because they thought it was

obscene. So while we were performing, these people started

coming around the hall. I was lucky we were able to finish the

concert. It was really funny because Ornette was really into

this voice experiment. It was great. He told his band to play

it, and just imagine that this jazz band will have to play it

the way some sort of kooky girl says to play it. They had some

objections, but they respected Ornette, and he said, "Just play

it like what she says:'

 

Yes, so it was. The way I got into it was, in 1963, when I was

in Japan,

 

I thought about doing the "Bottoms" film. I went to England to

do the film; well, not to do the "Bottoms" film, I went there,

and I did the "Bottoms" film. It's just a coincidence that it

happened there. In London, everybody was talking about the

"Bottoms" film. It was so outrageous. Everyday I'd see in the

newspapers some joke about the "Bottoms" film. Then I thought,

well, I've done it all in London, so I went to Paris, but then I

came back for the Albert Hall thing, and when I finished I

thought, I want to stay just a couple of days, and then when I

went back to my apartment I noticed the piles of letters from

John, he was in India then. So I was sort of hanging about in

London for a while, and then John came back from India and

called me. If I hadn't gone back to do the Albert Hall concert,

we probably would not have gotten together again.

 

Q: That's on an album, right?

 

YO: Yes, Plastic Ono Band by Yoko Ono.

  

ON FILM NO.4

(in taking the bottoms of 365 saints of our time)

spring 1967

This film proves that anyone can be a director...

I'm hoping that after seeing this film people will

start to make their own home movies like crazy.

In 50 years or so, people will look at the films of

the 60s ... I hope that they would see that the 60s

was not only the age of achievements. but of laughter.

This film, in fact is like an aimless petition signed

by people with their anuses!'

from Grapefruit by Yoko Ono.

  

Q: Then you did a lot of music with ]ohn. Were you still doing

music by yourself, and with other people?

 

YO: In 1968 spring, John and I finally got together. And from

then on I don't think I performed with anybody else. It was just

a totally different situation. We got together in such a way we

felt very exclusive about each other. I think there was still

one concert at Cambridge that they had asked me to do before I

got together with John. And then, when we were together, they

called me back saying, "Are you still going to do that one?" So

I said, "Okay, I have to do this one, John, because I promised

them and all that:' So he said, "You should do it, and tell them

that you're coming with a band, okay?" And he was the band. It

was a surprise, you know.

 

Q: Then you were writing songs, more exclusively as songs?

 

YO: Well, in London around 1967, I was writing songs too, and I

was doing some voice experiments. But then, I think Island

Records wanted to sign me up, and I went to John and told him,

because we knew each other then, and he said, "Well, sign up

with Apple? And I was saying "Maybe, maybe?. But when we got

together, of course, we did do that. I didn't sign up with

Island Records because, in those days, I don't know why, but I

was very busy and doing so much that I'd forget those things- I

mean signing and things like that. Even with the "Bottoms" film.

There was a film festival in Belgium in 1967, the Kuokke Film

Festival, and they invited me to show the "Bottoms" film. You're

supposed to sign some document to register for the festival

first, and I forgot that part of it. So I went to the festival,

and they showed my film and some of the judges came from America

obviously, and they said "We were determined to give you a

prize, but we can't because you didn't register?.

 

Q: Could you talk a little about what you were doing with the

voice experiments? Did you have certain ideas you were trying

out or were you just doing whatever happened?

 

YO: Well, some of it happened accidentally. In 1960 or '61, in

New York, I did a concert of my compositions in Carnegie Recital

Hall, and I was going to do some voice experiment in that. I was

already doing voice experiment in the sense of all that sort of

moan and groan, but in those days, I was playing around with a

tape recorder, an old-fashioned tape recorder, you know, where

you can record and rewind it. And rewinding, playing it

backwards, my voice was even more interesting. Instead of going

[vocal sound], it goes [vocal sound], you know-sort of

backwards. The beat is on a different place. And I said, this is

interesting. This is beautiful! So I did that in Carnegie

Recital Hall, in the dark. And people were saying, "Somebody is

screaming or moaning:' Jill Johnston wrote the review, in the

Village Voice. That's all they noticed. Then when I got together

with John - and John's group is like "rockers" -we'd go on stage

and John would just say, do your own thing, come on, we'll just

play behind you. Now, the ''rockers'' are using electric guitars

and it's loud. I'm just a voice so give me a chance.

 

I'd have to shout over it. That's how that got started.

 

It was just a fusion. A free form. John's doing his thing,

electric guitar, and I'm singing. It became like a duet. Now,

you should listen to Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band, which is an

experimental album, the Ornette thing is in it. Listen to the

first cut, "Why? That's an incredible track, even if you listen

to it now. I mean, you can just put it in your disco club and

people can dance to it. That's Ringo playing the drums, Klaus

Vorman playing the- bass. John's doing the guitar. The kind of

thing John's doing with the guitar is like a dialogue with my

voice. So incredible. Nobody did it before. John and I thought,

"We did it, we did it!" and we felt like we'd conquered the

world.

 

So then the album comes out, and we get all these letters with

photos of a big garbage can saying "Yoko Ono's record, we put it

in here? That sort of response. And John's saying, "Well, it's

sort of understandable that they didn't understand you, but why

didn't they notice my brilliant guitar playing?" And of course

he's right. But sadly, you know, because of me, nobody would

listen to his guitar playing. I felt sorry for him about that.

 

I was sort of a hindrance and no one wanted to listen to the

track, but he did incredible guitar playing. The kind of thing

we were doing then was all improvisation. And because I was into

that, I'd say to him, "Listen, we're not going to rehearse

anything, this is my game, all right?" So, we're doing that and

he was right into it, and he did better than any avant-garde

artist I know in this town, okay? And it's just the meeting of

the two minds, or the meeting of the two fields, or two

countries ... or the two worlds, that's what happened between

us. It was just incredible.

 

It's like music between some kind of contemporary jazz and rock,

and the avant-garde. It made us very lonely - for being such a

couple.

 

And I kind of wish, now that I see it in hindsight, I kind of

wish that they had let us just go on with that. But, artists are

very sensitive people, they're not just animals like you expect

them to be, we were sort of sensitive to criticism, and

applause. If the whole world is hating it, and putting it in the

garbage can, we're not going to make it, thank you. So it

dwindled in our minds. That sort of inspiration and excitement

faded.

 

So we didn't do very much of it, and whenever we'd do anything

in the studio, engineers would just go to the toilet or

something. And we're looking around - "Oh, the room's empty? In

"Why," right after we'd finished, you hear John saying, "Are you

getting that?" It's on the record. He said it because he was so

worried that they might have again missed it, that they hadn't

recorded it.

 

Q: Did they think you were just fooling around?

 

YO: Sometimes they might have thought we were fooling around,

sometimes they might have thought they couldn't stand it, so

they'd go in the bathroom. Sometimes they might have thought,

"Oh, it's Yoko's, forget it?.

 

I don't know. Maybe a mixture of those feelings. So John and I

were fighting against those odds.

 

Q: It was so new that no one could hear it.

 

YO: Now it's not new at all. You play "Why" and think, "Huh,

good disco?.

 

Q: But everyone has been influenced by what you were doing.

 

YO: Well, I wouldn't claim that. It's more coincidence, and

accidents, and all that. Everything in the world happens like

that, it's just chance. You know, it's just by chance, so I

can't claim originality or anything, just like I told you how my

voice happened because the electric guitar was too loud. So to

compete with that you start doing this. In one of the pieces I

think I realized that I can sing three notes at the same time,

which again I'm not doing by controlling it or anything. I just

started doing it, and I said,

 

"Oh, this is great!" And later, one of those doctors who checks

your throat said, there's a little sort of pea-sized something

on my vocal chord, and maybe that's the reason. From an early

age I could sing a very wide range like alto, mezzo-soprano,

coloratura soprano-a big range, and I knew that. But then I

didn't know that I could do two notes or three notes at the same

time. And when we found out about that we were very excited. So

there's some songs in the Plastic Ono Band album, if you listen

to it you'll hear the voice going like a harmonica, you know,

three sounds.

 

So all that happened because these two particular people met.

And we were very thankful about it. If the world just, just let

us be, and gave us the space to be, we'd have been great

partners. Our partnership was still great, but mainly our

energies were used in fighting the world from splitting us. And

finally they succeeded, they split us in this big way. And if

they had allowed us- I mean in 1980 we were full of it so we

were thinking, all right, next is a musical on Broadway. We

planned it all. There's a lot of planning that we did. We didn't

get to do any of it. But also, what if we did, what of it? I

have a feeling that there would have been a lot of antagonism

still.

 

One of the reasons we went on, and were able to do things at

all, was we maintained a kind of extreme naIvete. Whenever we

discovered something that we thought was great, we thought the

world was going to say, "Great!" After all that, you know, the

different times when they knocked us. "This is great, we have to

do it, let's do it, yeah!" And then, "Uh-oh, remember that one?

It was like that. So we went on. I don't know why. I mean, with

Double Fantasy we thought we made it this time, now they will

understand because the time is right. And the first review we

got was, "Do we want to hear love stories again from John

Lennon?" They didn't understand any of this. It was the

man/woman dialogue and all that, and now people understand it.

 

So John was saying, "Well look, you've been in this record world

for ten years now, and you were my partner for ten years, and if

you were a guy they would have by now recognized that you're

great. But you're a woman, and you're a wife? and all that. And

then he was saying,"Wait a minute, wait a minute, shall we

announce that you're actually a guy? That may do it!" That's

what he was saying in 1980. "You can get away with it," and he

was looking at me strangely, you know. That's funny.

 

Q: How much do you think the antagonism had to do with certain

things you represent like the merging of East and West, female

energies being encouraged, and John's part in that. Do you think

your ideas were what people were against, and maybe they were

taking it out on the music?

 

YO: Okay, I think a lot of things came together. One, they

didn't like the fact that supposedly I broke the Beatles up;

two, they didn't like the fact that I was a woman. I was an

oriental woman, I was eight years older than him, I was doing

music that was not particularly charming or acceptable, and

also, John and I were facing the world saying "We're partners,

equal partners, and how dare you?" But I think that maybe the

main reason is that the things we were doing artistically were

not quite acceptable to people at the time. That has a lot to do

with it.

 

Also, my attitude was - I came from the avant-garde where you

know, who was it, Jonas Mekas or somebody said, "If the audience

stays it means that your concert was not successful. If they

walk out it means you were successful? I came from a totally

different tradition, so I didn't care, really. But then I think

it was beginning to bug me too. It's not much fun to make

records and be- well, not communicating, not circulating,

because people don't buy it, simple as that. We tried to sort of

stay on a kind of balance, a good balance of not being too

extremely bored, maybe stick one song in that we liked very much

because it's a great advance.

 

We tried, but still it wasn't acceptable.

 

Q: And now the avant-garde is so rock-oriented.

 

YO: Oh, I know. And it's just as acceptable as can be. And in

rock too, it's more experimental, everybody's doing funny tape

things. Oh now it's very experimental, but we started a long

time ago, it was a different attitude then. Now I get letters

saying, "Your thing is too middleof-the-road, what are you

doing, we want to hear you screaming?.

 

Everything has changed for women, too, in a certain way, but

there still aren't very many women composers. There are a few

more, and there is more of an openness to accept them.

 

I'm sure there were many many women composers in the old days as

well, though there must have been some self-censorship and

intimidation and all that, so there was not really a conducive

environment to grow in. We just don't hear about them. Or we

hear about them as wife of a famous composer or something. Her

piece might be known as that composer's piece or something like

that. John was a very macho guy when I met him, or before I met

him. I know the kind of macho ism that he was surrounded with

... in his environment- his nature itself was not very macho, he

was a sweet, sensitive person but he was in that society so he

didn't know any better- and when he met me, and when he saw the

society attacking me, I think his sort of knighthood side came

out. And he observed it all, so then he realized what it is for

women in this world. And that did a lot of good really - for him

to understand feminism. He was a real feminist, you know, and he

read a lot of books about it. He was a bookworm too. He read all

of it and he understood it all. He was constantly encouraging

me, always behind me. I spoke about the discouragement we got

from the world as a couple, but at home I was very encouraged.

And that really helped me. It was a great working relationship.

 

Q: And you weren't being competitive, which is a problem some

people have.

 

YO: I hear that, but you know in our case, because I was such an

underdog - I mean society-wise - he was not feeling competitive

about my position in society or anything, obviously. And also,

his caring side, the protective side came out because of my

position. In that sense, it was like the prince meeting the

pauper, or one of those flower girls in the street. On the other

hand, if there was anything to learn from me or learn from being

with me, he cherished it. And I cherished learning from him too.

So it worked out very well in that sense. We had a healthy

competition, of course, a kind of healthy competitive feeling

that you can only call inspiring. If it was a situation where it

didn't inspire you to do anything, I mean, that's terrible.

 

And in that sense, we used to always say - "Okay, well, I'll do

this," ... "Oh, well I can do this," and top each other. It was

great. And maybe because we were so isolated, and we felt that

the pressure from the world was so great, we felt very strongly

that, if we become enemies with each other then what is left?

We're two lonely people. So we just huddled together.

 

Q: I have been strongly affected by the stories in your songs

and would like you to talk about them. I get a strong sense of

universal epics that your stories are part of .

 

YO: Somehow all the things that come out of me-like words or

music or whatever-seem to be not my doing. It just comes in and

I immediately write it down, and I catch it if I can. If I

don't, it's not there. So the activity is something comparable

to psychic understanding or mediumship. It comes from somewhere

else, and I'm just catching it. When it comes it's very quick.

 

Q: So you're a receiver, or a transmitter?

 

YO: In a way - I don't think of it as talent necessarily. I

think of it like a good radio. You can turn the channel and all

sorts of things come. And I have an antenna that's sticking out

there, and this antenna's catching something. It's a big opening

that's open to the stratosphere. It's easy to come in and come

out, there's no blockage. That's the way I feel about it.

 

And I think observing how John created all sorts of things, John

was like that too. When a message comes he jumps up in the

middle of the night, "I better write it down? He's got the whole

song down, that's how it was. A lot of people say things like,

"Why didn't you write songs together?" We rarely wrote together,

and we also very rarely sang together. What we found out when we

tried to write a song together was that it comes so quickly,

things come so quickly from me and from John, we don't have time

to discuss it. We'd say, "Okay, shall we write this?" And I'd

start saying, "Well, okay, this this this and this? "Oh, you

wrote the whole verse, that's not fair, we're supposed to write

it together? So then he's like that too, he writes the whole

thing. I say "Well, aren't you going to give me a chance?" "It

just came to me, I'm sorry? So it doesn't work. It immediately

becomes two songs or three songs. There was no point in trying.

He can write very well, thank you, by himself, and I can too. We

just respected each other for each other's writing. We helped

each other in the sense of stimulating each other for writing

certain things - it was inspiring in that sense.

 

Q: Are you continuing to write other things, essays and stories

... like the parable of the little boy and the crystal ball from

the inner sleeve of the album "Every Man Has a Woman"?

 

YO: "A Crystal Ball" was written because I wrote "Surrender to

Peace”. When "Surrender to Peace" came out in the papers, I

suddenly got tons of letters from one high school. I was

thinking, "What is this, what's happening at this high school?"

I found out they had a social science class where as a project

the teacher read "Surrender to Peace" and the homework was to

write a letter to me about what they thought of that. So they

all wrote to me, and I thought I can't answer all these letters,

each one of them. Then, I was just sort of inspired to write a

story, and I wrote this story, and sent it to them saying, "This

is in reply to your letters”.

 

I wrote a few others, around that time, I don't know if you've

read it, but I sent one to the Berkeley Fiction Review. It was

this year or last year.

 

I wrote that story and people asked me, "Why did you send it to

Berkeley Fiction Review?" I said, "Well, because they asked me!

I have so many little bits and pieces. When I write I get so

inspired that I want it out right away, and I'd send it to all

sorts of papers-they wouldn't mind printing something like, "Oh,

Yoko's eating hamburger and wasn't she a vegetarian?" - but they

don't want to take my writing. So I got sick and tired of that

game. I have it piled up now and when somebody asks, I just send

it.

 

Sometimes the timing is so right, it's uncanny. Like with Milk

and Honey, I tried to put it out in '81, '82, '83, it just

didn't work out for many reasons. It finally came out in January

1984, and then I found out that this year was the twentieth year

of The Beatles, fifteenth year of the "Bed-In?”, eighteenth year

of our meeting, John and I. They're all sort of telling me about

it, MTV calls me and on top of it, it's 1984, and there's an

Orwellian suggestion in it as well. So in 1984, us singing "milk

and honey" and "I love you" is a revolution, you know, because

George Orwell said we're not going to be saying I love you to

each other, right? But we're still saying it, even though one of

us had to die. I mean, it's that serious, George Orwell was

almost right. Human love and spirit can't be killed that easily.

It turns out that luckily there were tapes and because there are

tapes, we're still saying "I love you”.

 

Q: Did anything like that happen with "Walking on Thin Ice"?

It's such an important song.

 

YO: Well, I wrote that song in a car coming back from Cold

Spring Harbor to New York. Cold Spring is sort of like a country

home. I got in the car and I just thought of a song and I said,

"Quick, give me some paper, give me some paper! and they just

gave me a little scrap of paper. I started writing it, but then

I couldn't write the score yet so I just rushed in, literally,

to that piano and wrote the score on that little piece of paper.

And that was it. Then, when we were going to record I thought,

but I want, not just the song, I want a little ... I want to

push it a little further, experimentally. So I was thinking

about Alban Berg, in one of his operas, you know, where a drunk

is going "ahaahaahaa!” Just sort of saying things, but saying

things in such a way that the emphasis is all wrong, distorted.

 

So today is the recording and you're going to sing, I thought,

okay, and then I sort of ... I was lying down on the couch and

resting before the recording, and then I saw the lake flash in

my mind, a beautiful lake. And I said, okay, well, something

like that. And I went to the studio, and they're starting to

play the track so they can overdub my voice you see, and while

they were rewinding the tape, I just wrote that thing about "I

knew a girl" and all that. And I said, "When you finish the

song, just reel on? They said, okay. And it just came into my

head about “I KNEW A GIRL” as if you - you know, usually you

say, "Iknewagirrl”, “I KNEW A GIRL," like sort of what's that?

And I loved it. That's how it came into my head, so I did it

that way.

 

And when I came out of that booth, John said, ''When did you

write that? You didn't have that when we were leaving Dakota

today. I said, "I just did that now! He said, "Oh, great, I love

that thing about- 'and all this was ice' because then the lake

... " You see he's thinking of the lake-"and all this was ice?

you feel it. [vocal sound] And he kept saying that he loved the

song, both of us loved the song.

 

And we never thought anything would happen to us. So that Monday

we were going to remix it, and all weekend he was just listening

over and over again to "Walking on Thin Ice” and I was feeling a

bit eerie, because "Walking on Thin Ice" is an eerie song. And I

wake up in the morning, and I see him still playing it, watching

the dawn and all that in New York, and he's playing it. And I

say, "What are we doing, what are we doing?” He's just sitting

there listening to it for the twentieth time or whatever, and I

was thinking - afterwards - I was thinking, "What was that

about?" Because the song says it all. But I didn't know that,

and he didn't know it, and we thought it was just a story.

 

Q: Maybe it was a preparation.

 

YO: I don't know what it was really, but it's very strange. He

died that day and he was carrying the finished tape.

 

By 1980 both John and I knew a lot about the effects of our

music, because John basically was The Beatles and all that. You

see, when you write words and when it communicates on this level

or the level that The Beatles communicated, each word has such

an impact, it brings back karma right away. So he wrote the song

called "Instant Karma," you know. The karma is very instant.

 

Q: Because so many people are affected?

 

YO: Yes. Sometimes it works for good, like if you have that

communication power then you can change the world - if you have

a bigger communication power than us, probably you can change

the world in one minute maybe. So it's a degree, a matter of

degree, because they, The Beatles, communicated so much. So

let's say if there was one negative word in it, you know, that

creates such a negative karma. You don't know how, but it does.

 

So we were very careful about saying things or writing things.

And some critics don't realize the power of it, so then they

say, "Oh well, we don't want to hear everything goody-goody

again? But we have to ignore those few critics who are cynical

because when it's on that level, it affects everybody. And not

only the people who buy the record but the person who listens to

the radio, who happens to hear it because he's in a car or

something. So you have to be very concerned about that. But

then, you know, you get tired of being goody-goody, and you want

to be real sometimes. Both of us actually liked songs like

"Walking on Thin Ice”. We were at home with that sort of song -

more than maybe "Beautiful Boy”.

 

Q: "Beautiful Boy" was a different emotion, it was beautiful and

good.

 

YO: But we'd get into sort of punky or funky feelings that feel

good too. Then it's a dangerline. It's really like the

tightrope, you know, it's the thin ice. Dangerline. And that's

why that weekend I didn't like the fact that we were listening

that much to that song. And it's a trap you get into, you keep

on saying, yes, it's all right, it's all right, it's peace and

love, etc. But then you're human, so you just say something

-about death or something, I don't know-something to do with yin

and yang, and you want to say something that's not always

sunshine ... a shade darker. And then it sort of like affects

you, affects your fate even. That's incredible.

 

Q: So you really feel that you couldn't deal with the other side

at all? It seems like both the dark and the light are essential.

 

YO: And also there's a part of me thinking, for instance, Greek

tragedies, and there was tragi-comedy. I mean, the tragedy side

was a kind of atonement that you do in public, a catharsis, and

that catharsis helps others to go through their primal scream or

whatever: A lot of people used to say to me when I wrote things

like "Death of Samantha," why so sad? And I said that sad songs

are good because then you can get it over with and just go on,

it's a good thing.

 

So I have that feeling, that it's all right, but when you see

something like that happen, it's weird, isn't it? So it's sort

of like a mystery that I have to - there are many different

things that we still don't know. Did the song come first, or was

the song a premonition, or did the song make it happen? That

sort of thin line, you never know. And believe me, since I wrote

"Walking on Thin Ice" my life was walking on thin ice. So this

time I said, enough with walking on thin ice, I am standing on

firm ground, good earth, and I have to tell myself that.

 

I guess it has to do with the power you have when you are so

well known, and that power is the power that somehow everyone is

giving over of themselves, right? And you have this power, but

the responsibility that goes along with it is such a mystery.

 

Q: It's immense isn't it?

 

YO: It's something I have to be very caring about, because I

once met a guy in a record shop, and he just came to me and

said, "Oh hi, you're Yoko Ono? so I said yes, and he said,

"Listen, I met you in London once, I was one of the assistant

whatevers, and you looked at my numbers and you said - 'Oh for

the next five years it's going to be terrible, and just be

careful' - and it was, it was very very terrible for five years,

and how did you do it?" And I felt guilty like I had done

something. I just looked into the numbers. Then I said, "Look,

from now on it's going to be good, okay?" This without seeing

any numbers, I just felt like I had to say it. And I wondered if

it was me who did it, you know, or if it was just the numbers I

honestly read, was it that I'm psychic and I knew it, or was it

that I said it, and it affected him, I don't know. I don't know

what it takes. You have to be very careful.

 

Q: It has seemed to me, looking at your life, that if it were on

a mathematical grid, you're right at the center-and everything

changes when it goes through you.

 

YO: I don't know what it is. I just have to be very careful.

Having good thoughts, and doing good things with good

intentions. Both John and I never did anything otherwise,

really. You might think ah ha! of course, you must have been

hypocrites, I don't know what you think-but you see, think of a

suggestion where you are in a position where it affects a lot of

people, then you would be careful too. And you can't use it

lightly. John and my life on the daily life level, was pretty

boring in a sense, I mean boring for other people, pretty

normal. I think that maybe a middle-America housewife has it

better, you know, more exciting, because anything we did was

going to be blown up to some huge proportion. So we were

careful. We didn't do things that were out of place much, if we

could help it. Because it created a lot of repercussions. But

then it's not fun for people to mention about how he used to be

always so generous with tips or whatever, it's more interesting

to write about somebody who was tight with his tips though he

was a millionaire. Our life was pretty sort of like, well,

normal is the word, not eventful in a sense that people think.

 

When you are really like that, so careful; sometimes we'd go "Oh

to hell with it, let's go out drinking," because first of all

everybody does that. You know, working-class people will go out

on the weekend and have a beer or two, right? We don't even get

to do that. So one day we feel like doing it. Then you know John

went to Los Angeles, and Elliot Mintz, a friend of ours in L.A.,

told me later, ''All this talk about his lost weekend was blown

up," one weekend he had a big drinking spree, and he did it in

style, so to speak, so it got into the news and everything. It

seemed like he was drinking every day, but he wasn't that way.

And maybe that's the problem, that he wasn't drinking every day,

so when he got there he felt like, "Hooray, this is it!"

 

Q: I was just wondering if you have any theories about dreams.

 

YO: I think that dreaming is definitely part of our life. It's

part of reality, but how can we find dreams. It depends on the

dream. Some dreams are just dreams to regurgitate whatever

experience you've had or to get rid of certain emotions. And

some dreams are maybe messages, you never know. But it depends

on the dream as well, so I don't have a general concept about

dreams per se. But then also, there's a thing called dream

power, which is I think real in a sense. That all the things

that happen are in human history, for instance, I mean, I

believe in human race dreams. That we dream together. We used to

be wanting to fly. I mean, you know about the history of flying,

first it started with a wish to fly and then they started to try

to jump off the hill and now we have something called an

airplane. And also that wish that we always had, what if we went

to the moon.

 

The moon was something that was always mysterious and poets

always talked about the moon and there's always a fairytale

about "I wonder if?” or "I wish," or "we flew to the moon," and

now finally we went to the moon.

 

So dreams come true if you keep dreaming about it, but then how

much and to what extent and how many people have to dream - that

sort of thing. Of course, if you dream alone or if you dream

together there's a big difference in its power, and how it's

realized, you know? And some people might inadvertently dream

something negative, and they feel terrible about it, but it

depends on who is dreaming stronger, you know, so you may not

have to worry about it. You dream your competitor in your class

died, you know, well, you're thinking did I wish it- but then

your competitor might have a very strong survival dream so it

doesn't matter. So I think that dreaming is part of our brain

function, that it's definitely very strong, and it's a vibration

that works.

 

Q: We did want to talk about food. But that's really on the

plane of ordinary reality.

 

YO: Well sure, that's part of our lives. I'll tell you what I

think about that.

 

We went through the same mistakes, you know most people write a

book, like "Saltless Diet," or something. But if you investigate

carefully you might find that that person has a liver trouble

and he needs a saltless diet. We do tend to find an answer for

ourselves and share it without knowing why. And we shared our

concept of love or whatever, and maybe that's not applicable to

certain persons at certain times of their lives. We have to

understand that. The diet that is applicable to me, may not be

applicable to you. And I think that instead of listening to

other people's intuition, which is based on their condition, I

think we have to relearn to listen to our own intuition. Our own

intuition is very much destroyed and distorted and what-not

because of all these messages coming to us, you know, from the

television and from our parents and from our teachers and

friends, etc. So we no more know what our instinct is, we no

longer know.

 

Sometimes I have a strong craving for something, and I think

"What is this craving?" is it craving or is it because I just

heard on television that this tastes good or something. I have

to really think about it. Once I was in a car and this filmmaker

who was working for me in my film project was driving and I was

sitting next to him - and suddenly I had a craving for

hamburgers. "Stop, let's go eat hamburgers? I said, and he said,

"Oh, funny that you should say that because I'm a famous burger

man and I love hamburgers!” He told me a story - when he went to

Paris for the first time, he asked for a cheeseburger, and

everybody laughed. He can't stand not eating hamburger for one

day. And I looked at him, and he's one of these big guys, uh

huh, ah, okay, so it's his dream, I see.

 

And you know about the search for yourself, philosophically,

it's been discussed many times. But even on that level,

foodwise, in everything to do with your life, you're the wisest

person, just remember that. And when you say search for self,

you are searching for what you've lost because of all the other

messages that are coming to you because of the hypnotism that

you are put under by others in the world. It's as simple as that.

 

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From the session: "The Neuroscience of Art:

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This Salzburg Global program represents a pioneering step to establish a neutral international forum to discuss state-of-the-art findings from a cross-disciplinary perspective, prioritize future research, and expand creative opportunities for learning, innovation and collaboration. While much research is taking place in various national and regional settings, more global dialogue is needed between specialist silos in order to catalyze knowledge exchange around the results, implications and potential practical applications of new cutting-edge research.

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VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

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VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma

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From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)

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The science of ketosis is at the cutting edge of modern nutritional research and recent discoveries are greatly enhancing our scientific understandings of cellular energy, diet and nutrition.

 

For the last 6 decades, the basis of what is considered healthy nutrition has been founded at least in part on studies paid for by food manufacturers themselves.

The Blue Brain Project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.

The project has focused, however, not only on building a model of the neocortical column, but on developing a generic facility that could allow rapid modeling, simulation and experimentation of any brain region, if the data can be measured and provided according to specifications. The facility has been used to build the first model of the neocortical column, which consists of 10,000 3D digitizations of real neurons that are populated with model ion channels constrained by the genetic makeup of over 200 different types of neurons. A parallel supercomputer is used to build the model and perform the experiments so that the behavior of the tissue can be predicted through simulations.