Archive for April, 2012

Blip In Genetic Code, ‘The Intellience Gene,’ for IQ And Brain Size

Posted on April 18th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Is Intelligence Genetic? An international team of scientists claims that it has found “an intelligence gene,” the wire service Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Sunday. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h7gYRMF5mYp-vUbSUIwAjx03IOdw?docId=CNG.2fd49f1d35b6ebb0abee3c649c6274c0.261 Researchers made their finding during a study of brain scans and DNA samples from more than 20,000 people of European ancestry from North America, Europe and Australia, according..
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Researchers Find Autism Indicator In Infants’ Brains

Posted on April 18th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Researchers believe they have found one of the earliest so-called biomarkers for autism in babies just six months old, according to a story in The Seattle Times Saturday. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017984298_autism15m.html The research was conducted by the University of Washington and several other sites, and the study was prompted by the fact..
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Attentional Abilities: Video Taxed PostTBI

Posted on April 18th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Attentional Abilities: Quinn Part Nineteen Quinn and I discussed the video that I had him watch the night before.  Because of his attentional abilities he felt that the video was too long. I’ve noticed your sense of humor both today and when we first met.  How would you describe your sense..
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Attentional Resources After TBI: Can Cause Frustration

Posted on April 17th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Attentional Resources After TBI: Quinn Part Eighteen Divided attention is one of the most serious problems in people with brain injury because of their attentional resources after TBI.  Yet Quinn, as most of our survivors had very little divided attention problems in the interview.  His wife walked through once or twice...
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Cognitive Challenges Can Trigger Emotions after TBI

Posted on April 16th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Cognitive Challenges Can Trigger Emotions: Quinn Part Seventeen Quinn goes into detail regarding his issues he has with different cognitive challenges he faces and the therapies that he received for some of his issues.  The therapies included, speech, occupational and cognitive challenges therapy. We were talking about your therapies that..
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MIT Research Finds New Method To Monitor Intercranial Pressure

Posted on April 16th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

MIT researchers have developed a new way to monitor pressure in the brain, a method far less invasive than drilling a hole through a patient’s skull. MIT announced the new procedure in a press release it issued last Wednesday, which began by explaining that “brain tumors and head trauma, including concussions, can..
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TBI Can Impair A Patient’s Medical Decision-Making, Study Says

Posted on April 14th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can impair a patient’s medical decision-making ability at a time when patients or their families must make complex, sometimes life-and-death, decisions, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). http://www.uab.edu/news/latest/item/2237-head-injuries-often-impair-medical-decision-making-skills “Immediately following injury and during the rehabilitation and recovery period, patients and..
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Ex-NFL Player And Actor Alex Karras Has New Role: Brain Injury Victim

Posted on April 14th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

After getting out of pro football, Alex Karras enjoyed a pretty good run as an actor. He played the character Mongo in Mel Brook’s hilarious spoof of Westerns, “Blazing Saddles.” And Karras played a dad in a 1980s sitcom, “Webster.” In a column Saturday, Associated Press writer Tim Dahlberg wrote..
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Concussion ‘Loophole’: Helping Soldiers Who Served Before with TBI

Posted on April 12th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Military Brain Injuries Didn’t Originate in Iraq While the heightened concern about head injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan is a great step, the emphasis on TBI being the signature wound of those wars is completely misses the issue as to how big of a problem head injury has been..
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TBI Obstacles: Pressure Waves Present Biggest TBI Obstacle

Posted on April 12th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Obstacles: Quinn Part Sixteen I continued with Quinn relative to his seizure concerns and then touched another one of his TBI obstacles, pressure waves and the problems he has with them. Have you had seizures? I have not had a seizure yet. Did you have one when you were..
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