Props to Matt Calkins, a sports columnist for the The San Diego Union-Tribune, for his recent writing on brain injuries and sports. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/apr/28/tp-no-soft-soap-lets-call-brain-injuries-exactly/ In his column Sunday, Calkins essentially said that people — team officials, athletes, the press — should call a spade a spade. The injuries that have plagued..
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Here’s a provocative question: Did Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev sustain brain damage during his amateur boxing days that prompted his horrific actions? Two co-founders of the Center for the Study of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University are calling for special tests to be performed on Tsarnaev’s brain..
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The National Football League Alumni Association (NFLAA) and Neuralstem Inc. are working together to develop a trial using one of the company’s drugs to treat retired football players suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBI). In a press release Wednesday, the two announced that the trial would incorporate NSI-189, the lead..
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The production of certain brain cells, called astrocytes, thought to be an impediment to healing may actually be needed to staunch bleeding and foster repair after a stroke or head trauma, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. Duke issued a press release on the results of the study, which was..
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If I hear the term executive functioning deficits after a traumatic brain injury. What does that refer to? Well typically the classic executive functioning deficits deal with three areas. The first would be goals, the second would be time management and the third would be flexibility. Clearly a CEO has..
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One of the reasons, Jayne, that I wanted to tape this is I wanted to talk to you about the nature of what we do and, and what people can anticipate when they call us. Obviously this would be better to do when we’re both on the tape, but let’s..
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A jury has awarded $11.5 million to the family of high school football player who suffered traumatic brain damage during a practice, with helmet maker Riddell held liable for $3.1 million of the damages, according to the Associated Press. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/14/riddell-helmet-maker-lawsuit-negligent_n_3082260.html A jury in Denver issued the award to the family..
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Hello my name is Gordon Johnson. You are now on tbilaw.com which is a webpage that I had on the Internet since 1996. This video is now being shot at time that I’ve changed the title of tbilaw.com from the brain injury information page to Crashing Minds. Why the title..
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The first thing I would have asked Evie Branan is what she was thinking and feeling while she was in a coma for six years. But apparently, she was dreaming of singer Bob Seger. Branan suffered a major stroke six years ago, and was in a semi-comatose state, according to..
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Hospitals are increasingly using hypothermia treatment, a cooling method, to prevent newborns suspected of brain damage from suffering permanent injury, according to The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324504704578410483353736480.html Infants who aren’t breathing when they are born are at risk of suffering brain damage due to the lack of oxygen to that..
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