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Symptom severity score across 6 brain systems
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Personalized brain system profile
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Sample Report
Moderate Symptoms
Your Symptoms Are Affecting Multiple Brain Systems
This sample shows how your personalized report will break down symptoms across six brain systems, helping you and our specialists understand exactly what’s happening.
Symptom Severity Score
MinimalMildModerateSevere
Symptom Profile
This breakdown shows which brain systems are most affected.
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Significant
Cognitive Function
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Significant
Vestibular / Balance
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Moderate
Visual / Ocular
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Severe
Headache / Migraine
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Moderate
Mood / Emotional
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Significant
Sleep / Fatigue
Top Affected Areas
🔴 Headache / Migraine (Severe)
Prominent headache involvement. Post-traumatic headaches are reported by about 74% of PCS patients and can involve multiple headache subtypes.
Recommended: headache management and pharmacological evaluation
🧠 Cognitive Function (Significant)
Your cognitive symptoms are prominent. Difficulty concentrating, memory problems, and slowed processing are among the most persistent PCS symptoms.
Recommended: cognitive rehabilitation and graded aerobic exercise
✨ These symptoms respond well to targeted, multidisciplinary treatment.
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Why Standard Tests Miss This
If you’ve had a CT scan, MRI, or neurological exam that came back “normal,” you’re not alone—and you’re not imagining your symptoms. Standard tests examine brain structure (anatomy). Post-concussion syndrome is a problem with brain function—how regions communicate, regulate blood flow, and coordinate timing. These functional disruptions are invisible on standard imaging but measurable with specialized tools like the fNCI scan used at Cognitive FX.
How Symptoms Affect Daily Life
Based on quiz answers, your report shows how symptoms impact everyday activities:
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You can sustain 30 to 60 minutes of focused work before symptoms force you to stop.
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You can only use screens for 30 to 60 minutes before symptoms worsen.
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You avoid highways, long drives, or heavy traffic.
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You cancel or avoid plans on a weekly basis.
Detailed Domain Breakdown
Your full report includes a deep dive into each brain system, with fMRI-based insights explaining what’s happening neurologically.
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Cognitive Function Significant
MinimalMildModerateSignificantSevere
Your cognitive symptoms are prominent. Difficulty concentrating, memory problems, and slowed processing are among the most persistent PCS symptoms.
🔬 On fMRI, cognitive PCS shows altered activation in the prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, and thalamic relay pathways, areas that control attention, working memory, and processing speed.
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Vestibular / Balance Significant
MinimalMildModerateSignificantSevere
Significant vestibular involvement. Dizziness and balance issues strongly predict longer recovery and typically require targeted vestibular rehabilitation.
🔬 Functional imaging reveals disrupted connectivity between the vestibular nuclei, cerebellum, and visual cortex, explaining dizziness, motion sensitivity, and balance problems in PCS.
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Visual / Ocular Moderate
MinimalMildModerateSignificantSevere
Notable visual system involvement. Light sensitivity and visual difficulties are hallmark PCS symptoms that respond well to vision therapy.
🔬 fMRI studies show disrupted oculomotor circuits, including impaired smooth pursuits and convergence pathways, which drive light sensitivity, blurred vision, and screen intolerance in PCS.
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Headache / Migraine Severe
MinimalMildModerateSignificantSevere
Prominent headache involvement. Post-traumatic headaches are reported by about 74% of PCS patients and can involve multiple headache subtypes.
🔬 Post-traumatic headaches show hyperactivation in the trigeminal pain network and altered connectivity in the periaqueductal gray matter on functional imaging.
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Mood / Emotional Moderate
MinimalMildModerateSignificantSevere
Some mood involvement noted. Emotional symptoms tend to emerge later and persist longer than physical symptoms.
🔬 Emotional dysregulation in PCS maps to altered limbic system connectivity, particularly between the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate.
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Sleep / Fatigue Significant
MinimalMildModerateSignificantSevere
Significant sleep and fatigue burden. Sleep disruption is among the most persistent PCS symptoms and tends to worsen other symptom domains in a cascading cycle.
🔬 Sleep disruption in PCS is linked to dysregulation of the ascending reticular activating system and hypothalamic sleep-wake circuits, often visible as abnormal thalamic activation on fMRI.
What Happens Without Treatment
Research shows that persistent PCS symptoms don’t just continue — they compound. Here’s what the clinical literature suggests for a profile like this:
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Sleep disruption → Cognitive decline
Poor sleep quality directly impairs memory consolidation and concentration. In PCS, this creates a cycle where cognitive fatigue worsens sleep, which further worsens cognition.
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Cognitive difficulty → Mood changes
When the brain can’t perform tasks it once handled easily, frustration and anxiety naturally follow. This emotional burden isn’t “in your head” — it’s a neurological consequence.
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Symptom burden → Social isolation
Canceling plans and avoiding social situations accelerates mood deterioration and slows recovery. The more you withdraw, the harder it becomes to re-engage.
But here’s the important part: These patterns are reversible. The same brain plasticity that allowed these cascading effects also allows recovery — when the right systems are targeted.
Treatment Works, Even Years Later
Multiple peer-reviewed studies demonstrate that active, multidisciplinary rehabilitation produces significantly better outcomes than monitoring alone.
75%
Average improvement on fNCI brain function scans
Allen et al., 2017; n=270
73%
Returned to within normal range on fNCI Severity Index
Allen et al., 2017; n=270
94%
Reported symptom reduction in independent replication
Univ. Medical Center Groningen
Real Patients, Real Recovery
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The therapies were tailored to my individual strengths, weaknesses, and needs. I have had significant improvement and my last fNCI came back looking significantly better than the first one. I feel like I am getting back to my old self after nearly 5 years of problems and pain.
Liesel G.
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EPIC treatment at Cognitive FX was a lifesaver. The fog lifted and the fatigue finally began to let up. I could focus, read, and attend better. I felt like myself! When the fNCI scan scientifically backed up what I was feeling, I cried with joy!
Michelle F.
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