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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A Canadian researcher has found that damage to the brain can persist for decades after the original head trauma, according to a report delivered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston Sunday. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/cffi-esc021513.php “Even when you are symptom-free, your brain may still not..
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The Wall Street Journal did a story on a several new twists, new subsets, so to speak, of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They are being called “traumatic loss” and “moral injury.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323854904578264033446648810.html The story explains this psychiatric issue by telling the tale of Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams, whose entire..
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I was going to blog on this topic Tuesday, I had the data. But I got busy and didn’t have a chance to do it. The New York Times beat me to the punch Thursday with a Page One story on guns and suicide. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/us/to-lower-suicide-rates-new-focus-turns-to-guns.html?hp&_r=1& In all the debate over..
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It’s nice to hear an upbeat story about someone making a recovery from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel provided one a few days ago. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/crane-operator-recovers-from-severe-accident-tm8mj1h-190630241.html My local paper did a profile of Martin de Ridder, a crane operator from Plymouth, Wis. On July 5 de..
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New research has found that hearing loss in the elderly may speed up the onset of dementia and cognitive impairment. The study, done by the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, was recently published online by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, according to a press release from Johns Hopkins...
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