Dick Moberg's Neural Network

Jed Hartings PhD and Brandon Foreman MD talk about multimodal neuromonitoring and spreading depolarizations. They discuss the individual paths they took that led to the University of Cincinnati where they helped build one of the premier multimodal monitoring services in the U.S.

⛷️🏔️ Jamie MoCrazy's journey – from being a renowned X Games skier to surviving a devastating crash where her fatality report was filled out in the helicopter to making a full recovery and founding a non-profit for brain injury awareness – is nothing short of inspiring.

Jamie has taken her story and experience and leveraged it to start the MoCrazy Strong Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors and their family caregivers on how to build a productive and fulfilling life after brain injury. Through programs, policy, and education, the MoCrazy Strong Foundation focuses on what’s possible for a patient after TBI, regardless of the outcome of their recovery. As Jamie says in this interview, “Every brain injury survivor can create a life they love. […] There’s so much variety [in finding] a way to contribute back to society, and [finding] a way for you to feel like there’s a reason you survived.” ✨🧠

🎥 In this conversation, Jamie and Dick talk about her experience surrounding the crash, the difficulty yet importance of TBI survivors remaining in contact with the TBI world, how TBI survivors can reintegrate with society after their injury, her ongoing efforts to break the stigma around TBI, and the potential for collaboration to improve TBI outcomes.

In Jamie’s words, “Every aspect of brain injury, from the initial research to the end result, is so important to the whole picture. […] We definitely need to work more in collaboration […] because we all want the end result to be […] somebody who is not just living, but alive to thrive.” 💙🌎

Tune in for a motivating and uplifting conversation, and check out the links below to learn more about Jamie and contribute to her cause! Thanks for visiting Moberg Analytics and for all that you do, Jamie! ⛷️🌟 

– Jamie MoCrazy –

Dr. Balu was an early user of multimodal neuromonitoring and one of the first to manage highly acute neurocritical care patients with the gestalt of monitoring metrics rather than individual thresholds. He relates how we got into this mode of patient management while at the University of Pennsylvania and how he set up a framework for interpreting the data. See the interview on YouTube.

Dick Moberg describes how the pandemic changed his life and set the stage for a new company focusing on the future of neurocritical care informatics. Season 2 resumes this podcast on multimodal neuromonitoring but with a focus on machine learning and informatics.

Dr. Robert Silbergleit, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, and Dr. Romer Geocadin, Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins, discuss the ICECAP therapeutic hypothermia trial. 

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Dick's best friend Sheila recounts her experience being in a coma following a traumatic brain injury, while her brother Rick and her doctor Indira de Jesus share their perspectives. Dr. Claude Hemphill explains how the Curing Coma project aims to improve our understanding and treatment of comatose patients. 

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Dr. Barbara Riegel, Professor at the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, shares her research on improving self-care for caregivers. Dr. Tom Gillespie gives his firsthand experience on the toll that being a caregiver takes. 

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Dr. Jens Dreier, a professor in the Department of Neurology at the Charité university hospital in Berlin, discusses how he became involved in spreading depolarization (SD) research and explains the current applications and challenges of recording SDs. 

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Scott Wilson, founder of Persyst, recounts the unlikely chain of events that led to the founding of the company. 

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Dr. Jean Gotman, known as the father of automated seizure detection, recounts his early efforts to make automated seizure detection widely available. 

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