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TBI support groups are invaluable psychologically because so many people living with TBI feel isolated and misunderstood until they have the opportunity to meet regularly with others in their shoes. That’s when they get the understanding and social support they have been craving. But TBI support groups can do even more. If they
Dr. Ron Stram, a specialist in integrative medicine in Albany, N.Y., has developed a handheld device for treating migraines and nerve pain in patients who have sustained head injuries such as soldiers exposed to blast forces in Iraq or Afghanistan. The device emits changing frequencies of electric current through the skin and teaches
A major problem for some survivors of TBI is recognizing what emotions other people are experiencing based on their facial expressions. This impairs work and social relationships. A meta-analysis published in the summer 2011 issue of Neuropsychology examined the magnitude of facial affect recognition difficulties after TBI. Effect sizes were calculated from 13
The July 2011 issue of the journal Radiology has an article by Yulin Ge, MD, of the Department of Radiology at NYU Langone Medical Center, and colleagues, regarding the effect of mild TBI on the thalamus. The thalamus is the part of the brain which receives sensory input from receptor areas for touch,
In the Feb. 2011 issue of Neurosurgery James Mills, M.D. and colleagues published research showing that giving rats Omega-3 supplements consisting of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) for 30 days prior to TBI reduced the amount of beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) in the axons of the rats’ brains. Hight amounts of APP are associated with
Researchers at the UCLA Department of Neurobiology led by Dr. Marie-Francoise Chesselet demonstrated in 2012 that inducing a moderate TBI in rats caused the rats to lose 30% of their dopamine-producing neurons within a 26 week period following the TBI. This made the rats vulnerable to developing Parkinson’s Disease (PD). The researchers found
While the moderate and severe forms of TBI are associated with blunt or penetrating head trauma and loss of consciousness, PTSD (an anxiety disorder) is associated with exposure to a terrifying, life-threatening danger that need not involve either head trauma or loss of consciousness. Yet the consequences of TBI and PTSD are remarkably
On 8/29/11 the Canadian Medical Association issued a caution against early withdrawal of life support for patients with severe TBI. They found that 70% of hospital deaths among patients with severe TBI came from withdrawal of life support within the first three days of admission to ICU. Yet withdrawing life support during that
In the November 10, 2011 issue of The Lancet Dr. Damian Cruse and colleagues describe an inexpensive, bedside technique for ascertaining if a person who appears to be in a vegetative state from severe TBI has awareness or not. The research team asked 16 severe TBI patients diagnosed as vegetative and 12 healthy
Douglas Smith, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine teamed up with neuropathologist William Stewart, MD, from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, to study the long term neuro-degenerative effects of a single TBI on the human brain. They used post-mortem
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