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More than half of all people who suffer a traumatic brain injury will become depressed in the year after the injury, a rate eight times higher than in the general population, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And only about 45 percent of those who do
In the United States if a person loses consciousness due to a brain injury his driver’s license can be suspended. However, many physicians will not report the incident to the DMV unless they believe the loss of consciousness is likely to recur as when a patient has epilepsy. Therefore, it is often up
Some people who sue for a TBI incurred in one incident (such as a car crash) have had prior TBIs. Even though the most recent TBI is not severe, the person may undergo radical changes in personality (exhibiting impulsivity, explosive anger, and violence) or mood (depression and hopelessness). What could be going on
Dr. Wayne Gordon, an expert in the medical rehabilitation of persons with TBI, says that approximately 7-8% of people in the U.S. are living with the residuals of a TBI and many of them do not even know it. According to Dr. Gordon (who is the director of the Brain Injury Research Center
In the May 2013 issue of the journal Brain Stimulation, Dr. Stuart Hameroff and colleagues at the University of AZ Medical Center published an article demonstrating that applying ultrasound to the brain improves mood in people depressed by chronic pain. The mechanism at work is not known. Researchers theorize the ultrasound could stretch
Soldiers who suffer more than one mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) face a significantly higher risk of suicide, according to a new study published in JAMA by researchers from the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah. The researchers led by Craig J. Bryan, Ph.D. found that the risk for
At any given time some 6-7% of all Americans suffer from depression. What is the incidence of depression in people who suffer a TBI? Researchers at the University of Iowa led by Dr. Ricardo E. Jorge compared 91 patients with TBI with 27 patients who suffered multiple trauma, but without any nervous system
An new organization called the Warrior Canine Connection, a Maryland-based nonprofit, is stimulating recovery in American war veterans with TBI by helping them to train puppies over a two year period to become dogs that can help injured service men and women. The project is based at Walter Reed National Medical Military Medical
The hippocampus (located deep within the temporal lobe) is the brain’s primary learning center, and is crucially involved with forming, storing, and accessing long term memories. The hippocampus is a delicate structure more vulnerable to damage from TBI or stroke than other brain areas. Neuroscientists led by Moriel Zelikowsky at UCLA’s Brain Research
Emory University neuroscientist Don Stein, PhD has been studying the benefits and mechanisms of the hormone progesterone as a treatment for TBI for nearly 3 decades. He first became interested in progesterone when he observed that female rats recovered more quickly and completely from TBI than male rats, and that the probable explanation