Since Pate Rehabilitation offers treatment and support programs for individuals recovering from acquired brain injuries, I guess it’s no surprise that Monday it touted publication of an article – by one of its founders — on the effectiveness of brain injury rehab. Dallas-based Pate Rehabilitation issued a press release on..
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A Nebraska group and a museum have come up with a novel way to heighten awareness of brain injury, according to the Associated Press. Residents across Nebraska volunteered to create cranes out of bright-colored paper, and Hastings Museum in Hastings, Neb., has hung them in its light well, AP reported...
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It had to happen. An accused murderer’s defense at his trial includes blaming the concussions he suffered when he was a high school football star, according to the Boston Herald. http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/03/fujita_attorney_blames_head_injury The issue has been raised by a defense expert on behalf of Nathaniel Fujita, 20, who is on trial..
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With the National Hockey League lockout now history, there’s been a spate of player concussions that have raised the issue of safety again, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/sports/hockey/another-wave-of-concussions-hits-nhl.html?_r=0 In the past two weeks, 11 NHL players have suffered concussions, including the league’s most valuable player, the Pittsburgh Penguins..
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The Wall Street Journal Tuesday made a good case for the early testing of patients for dementia, even though there is no cure, so to speak, for the decline in brain function as one ages. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324503204578320032854013890.html The story points out that whether older people should be screened for dementia has..
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In neuroscience, “HM” was a superstar of brain research. This man, who had suffered from epileptic seizures since he was a teenager, was 27 when surgeons took a radical approach to treat his malady. In 1953 they operated and removed his brain’s anterior temporal lobe, including most of the amygdala..
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New research has found that a component of fish oil reduced brain damage in mice following a stroke, according to a press release from Columbia University Medical Center. That’s what happened in layman’s terms. http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/news-room/2013/02/20/omega-3-lipid-emulsions-markedly-protect-brain-after-stroke-in-mouse-study/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=omega-3-lipid-emulsions-markedly-protect-brain-after-stroke-in-mouse-study#.USmNr_J9tvQ Here is what happened in Columbia’s language: Triglyceride lipid emulsions rich in an omega-3 fatty..
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Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. A electronic device has been developed, with funding from the U.S. Army, that aims to treat traumatic brain injury (TBI) by stimulating nerves on the tongue, according to Popular Science. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/new-device-offers-brain-injury-treatment The device is called the Portable NeuroModulation Stimulator, PoNS. It was named after..
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New research has found that pets not only provide social and emotional support for those with disabilities, such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), but also for the so-called average Joe. At least that was the finding of a study recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and..
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