Headwise are very pleased to publish the latest in our series of self help guides. The new guide covers sleep disturbance after traumatic brain injury and is available now on our Self Help Guides page.

The leaflet is available to download in both print and screen versions. We hope it will be a useful addition to our range of resources.

Headwise is pleased to announce the opening of our new Oxford service, to be led by Dr Alan Gray (Consultant Clinical Psychologist). This new office marks an expansion in our provision of clinical services in the south of the country, where we will be able to assist with a range of clinical roles, including:

* Neuropsychological and psychological rehabilitation for adults and children
* Cognitive assessment
* Diagnostic assessment for neurological conditions
* Evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions for emotional and behavioural difficulties
* Cognitive rehabilitation
* Psychological support for families and caregivers
* Input to treating team as part of an MDT approach
* Training for staff/ family
* Medical legal assessments for mental capacity

If you require any further information or want to make a referral please use the contact details below:  

Professor Andrew Worthington, Director of Headwise has recently released a new research paper. This paper examines the challenges facing neuropsychologists seeking to understand decision making processes and particularly the problems facing clinicians evaluating mental capacity. It is argued that neuropsychologists have focussed disproportionately one some aspects of executive function, primarily those linked to the dorsolateral prefrontal area, and failed to address the multiple factors likely to affect real world judgment and decision making for which more emphasis on the ventromedial region and new assessment paradigms are required.

Click here to download the full paper.
This is a pre-publication version of the following article: Worthington A (2019) Decision making and mental capacity: Resolving the frontal paradox. The Neuropsychologist 7: 31-35.

People with brain injury are over-represented in prison populations whilst and surveys indicate significant misconceptions about brain injuries amongst the general public. Jurors find it difficult to discount irrelevant or prejudicial information, even when they are instructed to do so.

The project will involve a series of experiments, in which participant-jurors and others read information about fictitious cases, in which some key piece of information (e.g., the presence of neuroimaging evidence, or the presence of physical sequelae of the brain injury) is manipulated, and the impact of those pieces of information on juror decisions will be assessed. 

Professor Worthington has been invited to talk about “Apraxia & Action Disorganisation Syndrome” at BIT 10th Annual Word Congress of Neurotalk-2019, Osaka, Japan 13-15 May 2019.

Find out more about the Congress here: https://bit.ly/2Eh7IA8

Professor Worthington will be delivering a talk titled “cerebellum – beyond movement” for Independent Living Solutions Annual Conference  in Abingdon, Oxford on the 20th March 2019.

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2IF2une

Welcome to the new Headwise website! We're pleased to unveil our brand new look and hope you find the site informative and useful.

We welcome all enquiries, please contact us. 

We're pleased to release the Headwise entry for the UKABIF Film Award. 'Living with an Acquired Brain Injury' explores the impact of acquired brain injury on 4 people. The film's participants are not seen on camera, allowing them to speak freely and honestly about some of the difficulties and challenges that brain injury can cause. The film was created in partnership with Headway Birmingham and Solihull. The film is now part of the UKABIF Film Award and other entries can be watched on YouTube.