Here is some people’s nightmare, straight out of a horror movie: You are fully aware and conscious, but you can’t communicate or move. That was the reaction of some people who posted comments to a story that CBC News wrote about a study involving a man in a so-called “vegetative..
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Study Links Brain Injury to Parkinson’s Suffering a head injury and being exposed to pesticides makes for a bad combination that increases one’s chances of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study. The University of California at Los Angeles recently published the research, “Traumatic brain injury, paraquat exposure, and..
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University of Wisconsin graduate Blake Geoffrion, who plays hockey for the Hamilton (Ontario) Bulldogs, is recovering from a brain injury that nearly took his life last Friday. The aftermath of Geoffrion’s TBI was outlined by USA Today Monday in a blog by sports writer Josh Cooper, and it doesn’t paint..
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The prevalent scientific theory about Alzheimer’s disease is that it is caused by a protein called beta amyloid, which creates a sticky plaque in the brains of those with the dreaded ailment. But what if that theory is wrong? The Wall Street Journal Saturday did a fascinating Page One story..
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Lisa McHale is getting the word out to parents: Don’t let your kids play contact sports that can result in head injuries and brain damage. She won’t let her sons participate in Pop Warner football any more. The New York Daily News this week printed an interview that McHale did..
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A head cold apparently does more than give you a runny nose or a bad cough. It affects your brain, according to a recent study. “Muddled thinking” and “feeling of malaise” may be caused by changes in the brain itself, not “cold symptoms” themselves,” according to The Wall Street Journal...
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A renowned children’s hospital in San Diego last month started a program to try to detect and prevent brain-damaging seizures in newborns, according to the North County Times. “Neuro NICU” is the new initiative at Rady Children’s Hospital, which is only one of 10 U.S. hospitals to have programs to..
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Some might say that logic dictates you don’t allow a company to put a drug on the market that doesn’t have an antidote, or has been linked to hundreds of deaths. But that is not what the Food and Drug Administration said about Pradaxa on Friday. Pradaxa, produced by the..
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Here’s more bad news: High blood pressure can result in brain injury. That was the finding of a recent study performed by researchers at the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of California at Davis, according to Time magazine. The work looked at the connection between systolic blood pressure, which..
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I am usually writing about brain-injury cases that involve sports such as football and hockey, or car accidents. This is the first time I recall writing about a jockey. Darren Beadman, a renowned 46-year-old Australian jockey, has told the media that his riding career is over because of head injuries..
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