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Communication by Brain Waves Alone

Some victims of severe traumatic brain injury are unable to speak at all or speak unintelligibly. What if it were possible for them to wear a set of EEG headphones that recorded their internal thoughts in the form of EEG waves and transmitted their EEG waves via computer to another person? What if

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Experimental Drug Gets Tested for Severe TBI

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, are now participating in a national clinical trial of an experimental drug to stop blood clot formation in victims of severe TBI. The drug known as Transexamic Acid (TXA) has the potential to save lives and improve outcomes.

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New Book on Coping with Concussions and Mild TBI

Dr. Diane Stoler has published a comprehensive book on coping with concussions and mild traumatic brain injury with loads of helpful information. She is a board certified health psychologist and neuropsychologist. You can take a look at her book at www.drdiane.com

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Implantable Neural Interface Device for Healing TBI

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just awarded $5.6 million to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop an electronic device that can be implanted in the brains of injured soldiers who sustained a TBI, PTSD or both. The device (called a neural interface) will have multiple electrodes sealed in a bio-compatible

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Rates of TBI Seen in Emergency Departments Skyrocketing

Rates of Traumatic Brain Injury seen in Emergency Departments are up 30% from 2006 to 2010 according to the 5/14/14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The increase is tied to increased awareness of concussion presentation and better diagnosis.

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Scientists Learn How to Produce New Brain Cells in Adult Mice

In the June 1, 2014 online issue of Nature Neuroscience Chay Kuo, M.D. Ph.D. of Duke reports that stimulating certain neurons in the adult mouse brain signaled stem cells in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of their brains to produce new neurons. The neurons that Dr. Kuo stimulated are designed to produce the choline

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Michigan Residents Get Top Quality TBI Rehabilitation

Just outside of Lansing, Michigan, the Origami Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center employs an interdisciplinary team of experts to meet the physical, social, spiritual, cognitive, and emotional needs of people who have sustained a brain injury. They focus on maximizing recovery, restoring quality of life, and independence. Michigan residents or others seeking rehabilitation for

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Neurorestoration Center Opens at Keck Hospital at USC

Keck Medicine of USC has just announced the establishment of the USC Neurorestoration Center. The center will bring together the best minds in bio-engineering, neuroscience and neuro-rehabilitation to restore neurological function in the human brain after such conditions as TBI, stroke, and neuro-degenerative diseases like MS, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The center is the

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Using Stem Cells to Stimulate Brain Repair After TBI

What kind of progress is being made in medical repair of traumatic brain injury? An article in May 2014 online issue of Frontiers in Systems of Neuorscience (doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00116) by Naoki Tajiri et al. discusses the use of modified stem cells to create a “biobridge” between the site of cortical brain injury and

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Enriched Environment Speeds Recovery From Mild TBI

The mouse model is the most often used to understand the causes, mechanisms, modes of recovery, and most effective treatments for traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans. Using mice instead of humans spares humans from potentially destructive injury, and the brains of mice are so remarkably similar to those of humans that lessons

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