Bridge To The Future Foundation

Protect The Brain Campaign is on a mission to advance the field of brain health through education and awareness of baseline brain assessments to complement the brain wellness practices of trauma, memory loss and the aging brain, and mental health.

Brain Health
Protect the Brain Campaign is motivated to empower athletes, first responders, and their families to have a voice in the return-to-play and return-to-duty decision with their coaches and physicians. Often left in the dark regarding concussion protocol, the families are asked to trust the brain of their loved one to someone who is equipped only with symptomatic diagnostic tests. These assessments are incomplete indicators of brain function and can lead to a limited and potentially inaccurate return verdict. Research shows that contact sports subject players to repeated, small collisions to the head that, over time can dramatically affect their cognitive brain function. Every individual brain is unique, meaning recovery after a brain injury is just as specific. PTB believes in the importance of brain health and wants to collaborate with administration and professionals on building concussion protocol standards in order to provide the community an opportunity to protect the brain and stay proactive in their recovery. PTB brings an innovative brain scan and testing platform that provides the ability to objectively measure brain activity and make a more informed and accurate return-to-play and return-to-duty decision to the world. When a baseline brain assessment and scan has been obtained, a physician can assess the condition of the brain after a potential concussive impact incident by comparing a post-concussion scan against the baseline scan. Studies have found that electrical responses to sound and physical reaction time are affected by a concussion and the normalization of these measures correlates with symptomatic recovery. By adding more objective assessments of recovery we hope to reduce the long-term danger from concussions and brain injuries.

Brain Wellness
Protect the Brain Campaign is motivated to provide individuals with the opportunity for healthy aging. Through baseline and yearly brain scans, allows one to detect any indicators changing memory loss parameters and intervene if the noticeable change is worrisome. Every individual brain is unique, meaning identifying signs of memory loss is just as specific, diagnosing with limited symptomatic and performance measures. We believe in the importance of brain health and want to provide the community the opportunity to protect the brain and stay proactive in preventative care and assessments. PTB brings an innovative brain scan and testing platform that provides the ability to objectively measure brain activity. There is a growing body of research focusing on both improving mental function and preventing a premature mental decline in aging. Better assessment tools are now needed. The future goal is to include brain health assessments as common practice in physicals, allowing physicians to better understand brain health and make decisions necessary for the preventative health and wellness of their patients.

Mental Health
Protect the Brain Campaign is motivated to provide individuals with the opportunity for more accurate measurements to help with maintenance and care when it comes to ADHD. Through baseline and yearly brain scans, allows one to detect any indicators changing on the depression and anxiety parameters and intervene if a noticeable change is worry-some. Every individual brain is unique, meaning identifying mental disorders is just as specific, diagnosing with limited symptomatic and performance measures. We believe in the importance of brain health and want to provide the community the opportunity to protect the brain and stay mindful of mental health. PTB brings an innovative brain scan and testing platform that provides the ability to objectively measure brain activity. Additional objective screening tools are needed for behavioral health, but these tools must be assessable to the patient and respect the clinical judgment of the practitioner. The goal is that by collaborating with longitudinal data, better screening tools can be developed allowing physicians to better assess behavioral issues.