Latest traumatic brain injury Stories

Study finds chronic inflammation, suppression of cell regeneration, and neuronal cell loss contribute to wide range of motor and cognitive deficits Researchers from the University of South Florida and colleagues at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital studying the long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) using rat models, have found that, overtime, TBI results in progressive brain deterioration characterized by elevated inflammation and suppressed cell regeneration. However,...

If patient is stable, repeated scans unlikely to affect treatment When initial computed tomography (CT) scans show bleeding within the brain after mild head injury, decisions about repeated CT scans should be based on the patient's neurological condition, according to a report in the January issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The study questions...

An observational study involving 629 subjects finds rapid, significant, readily-observable improvement in stroke and traumatic brain injury patients following the perispinal administration of Enbrel. (PRWEB) January 02, 2013 Neurological Wellness Center began holding perispinal injection technique training courses in the spring of 2011. Since then physicians, nurses and lay caregivers have come from around the world to their Center in Managua Nicaragua for individualized instructional...

New imaging findings Physicians at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Northwest Radiology Network (Indianapolis, Indiana) report the case of a 17-year-old high school football player with second impact syndrome (SIS). A rare and devastating traumatic brain injury, SIS occurs when a person, most often a teenager, sustains a second head injury before recovery from an earlier head injury is complete. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first reported case in which...

Michael Kaplen, a prominent brain injury attorney, is speaking out against those media sources that made light of the concussion sustained by Hillary Clinton. Pleasantville, NY (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 Michael V. Kaplen, a leading New York brain injury attorney and immediate past president of the Brain Injury Association of New York, today voiced his distress of politicians and certain segments of the news media seeing to trivialize the effects of the concussion sustained by Secretary of...

The Perispinal Enbrel Injection Procedure that Dramatically Reverses the Cognitive Deficits and Physical Impairments Caused by Alzheimer’s Disease, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury is Now Available in a $49 On-Line Course Offered by http://www.neurological-recovery-guide.com (PRWEB) December 19, 2012 Neurological Wellness Center began holding perispinal injection technique training courses in the spring of 2011. Since then physicians, nurses and lay caregivers have come from around...

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) among children in China are a growing public health concern. Two new studies by researchers of the International Program at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Wuhan Children’s Hospital in China examined pediatric TBIs that were treated at Wuhan Children’s Hospital from 2002 to 2011. The first study, appearing in the December 2012 print issue of PLOS ONE, investigated the causes,...

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) recently discovered that hospital MRIs could help show signs of mild traumatic brain injuries that may not be seen with CT scans. These findings show that improved diagnosis could pave the way for better outcomes and treatment. The results of the clinical trial were recently published in the journal Annals...

Michael V. Kaplen, an experienced head injury lawyer,in commenting on recent litigation between the NFL and its insurers says it is a conspiracy for denying injured players access to justice. Pleasantville, NY (PRWEB) December 13, 2012 Noted New York brain injury attorney Michael V. Kaplen, in responding to a recent story in the New York Times, Concussion Liability Costs May Rise, and Not Just for NFL (NYT, 12/11/12), charged the League and its insurers with an insidious conspiracy to...

University of Washington Costly intracranial pressure monitoring re-examined by researchers in US and Latin America For patients with a traumatic brain injury, the default standard of care has just been turned on its head by a group of researchers at the University of Washington working with colleagues at six hospitals in Bolivia and Ecuador. In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine Dec. 12, the researchers found that intracranial pressure monitoring – the...