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Dr. Jane Topolovec-Vranic, a clinical researcher in neuroscience at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, announced that nearly half of the 111 homeless men she studied had suffered at least one traumatic brain injury, and that 87% of them had their brain injury before becoming homeless. The study was published in Open (a journal
Between 10 and 20 percent of all cases of epilepsy result from severe traumatic brain injury. A team of researchers from multiple universities led by integrative biologist Daniela Kaufer of UC Berkeley has demonstrated why this happens and how to prevent seizures consequent to TBI. Using MRI they observed that the blood-brain-barrier in
There are horror stories from across our nation involving distracted drivers who plow into an innocent person while texting or chatting on their hand-held cell phone. Sometimes the driver or passenger of the car they hit winds up with a permanent, traumatic brain injury. This what happened to a young man named D.W.
Dr. Sylvia Lucas a professor of neurology at the University of Washington in Seattle reported at the annual meeting of the American Headache Society in August 2012 that the likelihood of headache following brain injury is 70% greater in the mild TBI group than in the moderate or severe group. Dr. Lucas and
Cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) is the sterile fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord and cushions them from trauma. Approximately 80% of all cases of leakage of CSF are caused by trauma with the rest occurring as a consequence of surgery. On March 23, 2014, Cook Medical (a medical products company headquartered in
At the University of Kentucky neuropsychologist Dan Han, an expert on concussions, and psychologist Lisa Koehl, joined forces to study how concussions cause and are complicated by emotional effects in a group of 37 student athletes age 12-17. What they found is that 22 of the 37 students showed chronic post-concussive symptoms. Of
Axons play two critical functions in the brain. They release neuro-chemicals from brain cells to other brain cells, and they transport nutrients from the environment into the brain cell to keep it alive. Axons are held together by structural supports called microtubules which can flex without breaking when force is applied slowly to
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