It sounds unbelievable, and even doctors said they thought it was a joke. But there is a unique phenomenon where those who sustain a traumatic brain injury wind up speaking with a foreign accent. The Washington Post recently did a story on Foreign Accent Syndrome, which the paper described as a “a rare and little-understood..
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The Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed a bill regarding sports concussions in student athletes. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1259191&format=text The proposed legislation would set up a head-injury safety training program for coaches, trainers and parent volunteers who take part in school athletics. Doctors and nurses employed by a school would also be trained to spot signs..
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California is looking to enact a law to protect patients from radiation overdoses from CT scans, which are one of the key tools to detect brain injury. The state Senate last Friday passed a bill, 24 to 5, which mandates that the dose of radiation released during each scan be recorded..
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Yet another member of the Texas Tech Board of Regents has asked a judge to dismiss former coach Mike Leach’s lawsuit against him as an individual. http://lubbockonline.com/node/10928/print This time, on Monday, lawyers for Board of Regents chairman Larry Anders filed documents that rebutted Leach’s attempt to hold individual college officials responsible for the school’s..
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Adding insomnia to injury, those who suffer from traumatic brain damage may have issues sleeping because they are producing less melatonin, according to a new study. http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20100524/brain-injuries-may-lead-to-sleeping-problems Australian reseachers conducted a sleep experiment where they compared patients who had suffered traumatic brain injury on average 14 months prior to the test with 23 healthy..
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Here’s a pro-active approach to dealing with potential brain injuries in sports: Prevent them by doing neck-strengthening exercises. http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/05/24/concussions-fought-neck/ Mike Gittleson, who was the University of Michigan’s football strength and conditioning coach for 30 years, believes young athletes should be doing neck-strengthening exercises to protect themselves from brain injuries. In fact, I..
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Nobody knows the reason why yet, but American troops who have seen combat in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering far higher rates of post-traumatic stress than their British counterparts, according to a new study. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/world/17trauma.html?ref=world U.S. troops returning to the United States are seeing rates of PTS in the 10 to 15 percent range,..
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Another tragedy has struck a young football player on the field. Dylan Steigers, a 21-year-old Eastern Oregon University football player, died a day after he sustained brain injuries after being struck in the head during a scrimmage Saturday. Steigers, who had been a football star at Sentinel High School in Missoula,, Mont., walked off the field..
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It would seem quite logical to believe that using helicopters to transport the injured to hospitals would make a dramatic difference in their prognosis and survival. After all, what land vehicle has the mobility and speed of a whirlybird? But at a recent conference in Las Vegas, Dr. Bryan Bledsoe, a professor of emergency medicine at..
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In what appears to be an unusual link, those who have a common heart defect may also be more likely to have brain aneurysms, according to a new study published this week in the mediocal journal Neurology. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100503161227.html As much as 2 percent of the population is born with bicuspid aortic valve, or..
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