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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.
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
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
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
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
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
Dr. Jane Topolovec-Vranic, a clinical researcher in neuroscience at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, announced that nearly half of the 111 homeless men she studied had suffered at least one traumatic brain injury, and that 87% of them had their brain injury before becoming homeless. The study was published in Open (a journal
Between 10 and 20 percent of all cases of epilepsy result from severe traumatic brain injury. A team of researchers from multiple universities led by integrative biologist Daniela Kaufer of UC Berkeley has demonstrated why this happens and how to prevent seizures consequent to TBI. Using MRI they observed that the blood-brain-barrier in
There are horror stories from across our nation involving distracted drivers who plow into an innocent person while texting or chatting on their hand-held cell phone. Sometimes the driver or passenger of the car they hit winds up with a permanent, traumatic brain injury. This what happened to a young man named D.W.
Dr. Sylvia Lucas a professor of neurology at the University of Washington in Seattle reported at the annual meeting of the American Headache Society in August 2012 that the likelihood of headache following brain injury is 70% greater in the mild TBI group than in the moderate or severe group. Dr. Lucas and
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