Brigid Waldron-Perrine, Ph.D., a recent graduate from Wayne State University, and her mentor, Lisa J. Rapport, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, found that if traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims feel close to a higher power, it can help them rehabilitate. The study was recently published in […]
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People With History Of Head Injuries Report More Violent Behavior
Young people who have sustained a head injury during their lifetime are more likely to engage in violent behavior, according to an eight-year study from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Further, the research found that young people who suffered a recent head injury (within a year of being questioned for the study) […]
Blast-Related Brain Injuries Detected In United States Military
An advanced imaging technique has revealed that some U.S. military personnel with mild blast-related traumatic brain injuries have abnormalities in the brain that have not been seen with other types of imaging. The abnormalities were found in the brain’s white matter, the wiring system that nerve cells in the brain use to communicate with each […]
Emerging Evidence Suggests That Anti-Depressant Medication Boosts Brain Cells After Traumatic Brain Injury
Anti-depressants may help spur the creation and survival of new brain cells after brain injury, according to a study by neurosurgeons at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Jason Huang, M.D., and colleagues undertook the study after noticing that patients with brain injuries who had been prescribed anti-depressants were doing better in unexpected ways than […]
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Shows Strong Link to Depression, But Treatments Lack Evidence-Based Research
Vanderbilt researchers conducting an extensive analysis of studies on traumatic brain injury (TBI) report today that 30 percent of TBI patients, or approximately 360,000 patients each year, will also suffer from depression after their injury. The report, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), examined existing research on civilian blunt force trauma […]
Brain-To-Computer Bridges Can Now Tune In Speech
Patients with a temporary surgical implant have used regions of the brain that control speech to “talk” to a computer for the first time by manipulating a cursor on a computer screen simply by saying or thinking of a particular sound. The research appears April 7 in The Journal of Neural Engineering. The publisher offers […]
Researcher Pursues New Treatments For Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury Who Are In Coma
We have all watched it unfold on soap operas, medical dramas and films: A patient falls into a coma, and loved ones at the bedside try to peel away the veil by talking or reading aloud. Some of us have done it ourselves, desperately hoping for any hint of wakening or awareness. For Theresa Louise-Bender […]
AANS Offers Head Injury Prevention Tips
The theme of 2011 National Neurosurgery Awareness Week, April 10-16, 2011, is There’s Always Another Game, but You Only Have One Brain. NNAW is held annually in celebration of American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Scientific Meetings. The 79th AANS Annual Meeting Scientific program starts officially on Monday, April 11 at the Colorado Convention Center. […]
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