BCIA Continuing Education Posts

Neuroinflammation is an immune process centered in the brain and spinal cord, orchestrated primarily by microglia.

Using a large nationally representative dataset, the researchers found that people hospitalized for TBI were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia or other psychotic conditions than similar individuals without TBI.

Ben's case exemplifies the core insight of Dr. Swatzyna’s clinician detective model: that not all psychiatric symptoms are psychiatric in origin, and that functional abnormalities in brain activity—detectable on EEG—can signal the presence of invisible, systemic pathology.

Alpha peak frequency power represents a fundamental biomarker that reveals cognitive efficiency and neural integrity.