In one of New York’s largest medical malpractice verdicts ever, a Bronx jury Friday awarded $120 million to a woman who suffered brain damage after hospitalization in three medical facilities, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/nyregion/woman-wins-malpractice-suit-against-three-city-hospitals.html?_r=1 The verdict in state Supreme Court was for a lawsuit lodged on behalf..
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USA Today did a thought-provoking story about whether parents should allow their kids to play football, in light about all the talk abut concussions and the long-term brain damage they can do. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/story/2012-05-16/Parents-weigh-youth-football-risks/55150850/1 The story led off with the fact that ex-NFL quarterback Kurt Warner would rather that his three..
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The Hippocratic oath tells doctors, “First, do no harm.” Well, they apparently haven’t heard that advice in the Nutmeg State. An elderly woman has filed suit against a Connecticut hospital, alleging that she sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) when she fell off an operating table following surgery, according to the..
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Erin Butzler of La Crosse, Wis., was kicked in the head during a soccer game in 2009. And she’s spent the years since then trying to reclaim her past. The Associated Press did a profile of Butzler that chronicles the 18-year-old’s struggle to cope with the retrograde amnesia she suffered..
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Modifying the scar tissue that develops after a stroke may be a treatment for the repercussions of such an attack, according to a new study. The promising finding comes from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, Calif., which put out a press release about its study. http://www.newswise.com/articles/modifying-scar-tissue-can-potentially-improve-outcome-in-chronic-stroke..
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A man from the 19th Century who survived a horrific brain injury, and became a notorious case study for neuroscience because of the personality change he underwent, has been the subject of yet more research. The University of California at Los Angeles last week boasted that for the first time..
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Talk about mind over matter. In a study published last week, a paralyzed woman and paralyzed man were both able to move and control a robotic arm with their thoughts, their brain signals. Brown University issued a press release on the fascinating research, which employed brain implants, on Wednesday. http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2012/05/braingate2..
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Processed sugar can not only make you fat, it can wreak havoc on your brain, interfering with memory and learning, according to a study done at the University of California at Los Angeles. In a press release last week, UCLA said that a new “rat study” is the first research..
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It’s a cliche, but it’s true: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature wound of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And it has been called an invisible injury, since you can’t see it and it typically doesn’t turn up in brain scans. But a fascinating study has found evidence..
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This may be a little technical, but bear with me here. It looks like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has done some interesting Alzeimer’s disease research. As the NIH explains in a recent press release (which this blog is based on), variants of the ApoE gene are strongly associated..
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