TBI is a form of brain damage that decreases the number of healthy brain cells and disrupts functional brain networks. If it is serious enough a TBI can cause disability with job and income loss leading to loss of socio-economic status and self-esteem. When you can’t work and you can’t pay your bills

The human brain contains mu-opioid receptors which block pain when activated by substances including mu-opioid and morphine. Alex DaSilva, assistant professor of prosthodontics at the University of Michigan has discovered that applying low dose electricity to the brain through electrodes on the scalp can trigger the release of mu-opioid and block certain types

On October 25, 2013 Matthew C. Wylie, MD, presented a paper to the American Academy of Pediatrics called “Depression in Children Diagnosed with Brain Injury or Concussion.” Using data from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health, Dr. Wylie identified more than 2,000 children with brain injuries, reflecting the national child brain injury

CT scans and MRIs do not show mild TBI because mild TBI exists at the microscopic level unlike severe or moderate TBI which are accompanied by macroscopic bruising, swelling or bleeding of brain tissue. Some clever neuroscientists at the University of Virginia have just found a way to detect mild TBI using a

University of Wisconsin geneticist Barry Ganetzky concluded that we know very little about how head trauma triggers neurodegeneration of the brain following TBI, and that’s because of legal and ethical restrictions on human experimentation. After looking around for a suitable non-human candidate for TBI research he hit on the fruit fly. The fruit

Survivors of TBI with left-sided brain damage often experience problems with language such as difficulty making intelligible speech sounds and difficulty forming proper words from those sounds. Depending on insurance coverage it may be possible to accelerate recovery through visits to a speech therapist. Is there anything you can do on your own