The Institute for Cognitive Prosthetics (ICP) is a leader in the use of personal technology to increase the recovery of cognitive functioning from brain injury.  

ICP was founded as a research and development organization in 1989 by computer scientist Elliot Cole, PhD, then a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.  The mission has been to develop technology and techniques that advance the clinical outcomes of cognitive rehabilitation of brain injury and stroke.  Recently ICP formed Neuro-Hope as the clinical services organization for treating brain injury survivors in the Unites States, even years after their injury .   

With funding from the NIH Neurology Institute’s Division of Fundamental Neuroscience and Bell Labs, Dr. Cole built a highly productive multidisciplinary team of clinicians and computer scientists.  We have continue to achieve both technological and clinical advances over decades.  These advances have been based on 3 premises:

• Computer technology can increase cognitive performance of individuals with cognitive disabilities from brain injury and stroke

• A patient-centered care approach which harnesses the individual’s abilities is able to produce rapid and repetitive cognitive advances

• Services need to be delivered to the individual in their natural environments – always the home but also workplace, school, and community – by therapists in their office.

ICP’s contributions to cognitive rehabilitation are documented in the Publications section.

Every brain injury is unique, and each individual is unique. Contact us to discuss your situation.