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On March 20, 2013 neurologist Gunjan Parikh, M.D. presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology on MRI evidence of brain damage following mild TBI. Dr. Parkh works at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Unit in Baltimore. He used MRI to evaluate 256 people with an average
A study published in the March 2013 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry shows that mild TBI significantly increases the risk for alcohol addiction for a period of six months following injury with the risk gradually declining to normal thereafter. The findings come from a study of 5065 active-duty airmen who had
According to an article in Volume 15, Issue 3 of the journal Pituitary published in Sept. 2012 there is evidence that about 30% of all children who suffer a traumatic brain injury show reduced pituitary output for up to 5 years post-injury. Hypopituitarism in children can be accompanied by reduced output of HGH
Research published in October 2012 by a team at Mt. Sinai Medical Center led by Georgia Hodes Phd shows that real depression is related to and co-occurs with a measurable spike in the protein IL-6 produced by the immune system. In litigation over TBI claims the plaintiff is frequently depressed and the defense
TBI and other conditions can put a person in a deep coma for years on end. This condition is called PVS which is short for “persistent vegetative state.” In a number of highly publicized incidents use of the drug Zolpidem (sold under the names Ambien, Ambien CR and Stilknox) has woken people up
Consequent to TBI some people suffer damage to an area of the brain called the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus or SCN. The SCN is about the size of a grain of rice and sits above the spot in the brain where the two sides of the optic nerve cross. It controls the 24 hour biological
One consquence of TBI known as the “psuedobulbar affect” or PBA is uncontrollable, inappropriate fits of laughter, crying or both. Jonathan Fellus, MD of Seacaucus, New Jersey, is an expert on the treatment of PBA. He recommends trying behavioral strategies first. For example, when you feel an episode coming you can try to
Dr. Adriana G. Ioachimescu of Emory University, Atlanta presented a paper in September 2012 at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society concerning the possible role of human growth hormone (HGH) deficiency in causing some problems for TBI suvivors. The subjects of her pilot study were 20 men (mean age, 34 years) with
In the Jan.-Feb 2009 issue of Disease Models & Mechanisms Dr. Peter A. Walker and colleagues summarized what we know so far about the use of progenitor cell therapies for traumatic brain injury. Due to evidence in rats that transplanation of embryonic stem cells grow tumors in the post-TBI brain and strict limits
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) can co-occur with TBI from the same event or occur on its own. Either way PTSD can cause serious emotional suffering and disability from work. A recent study on PTSD prevention by Joseph Zohar, M.D., of Tel Aviv University and Hagit Cohen, Ph.D., from Ben-Gurion University showed that traumatized
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