All posts in 'Brain Injury'

Blip In Genetic Code, ‘The Intellience Gene,’ for IQ And Brain Size

Posted on April 18th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Is Intelligence Genetic? An international team of scientists claims that it has found “an intelligence gene,” the wire service Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Sunday. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h7gYRMF5mYp-vUbSUIwAjx03IOdw?docId=CNG.2fd49f1d35b6ebb0abee3c649c6274c0.261 Researchers made their finding during a study of brain scans and DNA samples from more than 20,000 people of European ancestry from North America, Europe and Australia, according..
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Researchers Find Autism Indicator In Infants’ Brains

Posted on April 18th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Researchers believe they have found one of the earliest so-called biomarkers for autism in babies just six months old, according to a story in The Seattle Times Saturday. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017984298_autism15m.html The research was conducted by the University of Washington and several other sites, and the study was prompted by the fact..
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MIT Research Finds New Method To Monitor Intercranial Pressure

Posted on April 16th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

MIT researchers have developed a new way to monitor pressure in the brain, a method far less invasive than drilling a hole through a patient’s skull. MIT announced the new procedure in a press release it issued last Wednesday, which began by explaining that “brain tumors and head trauma, including concussions, can..
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TBI Can Impair A Patient’s Medical Decision-Making, Study Says

Posted on April 14th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can impair a patient’s medical decision-making ability at a time when patients or their families must make complex, sometimes life-and-death, decisions, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). http://www.uab.edu/news/latest/item/2237-head-injuries-often-impair-medical-decision-making-skills “Immediately following injury and during the rehabilitation and recovery period, patients and..
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Ex-NFL Player And Actor Alex Karras Has New Role: Brain Injury Victim

Posted on April 14th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

After getting out of pro football, Alex Karras enjoyed a pretty good run as an actor. He played the character Mongo in Mel Brook’s hilarious spoof of Westerns, “Blazing Saddles.” And Karras played a dad in a 1980s sitcom, “Webster.” In a column Saturday, Associated Press writer Tim Dahlberg wrote..
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Concussion ‘Loophole’: Helping Soldiers Who Served Before with TBI

Posted on April 12th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Military Brain Injuries Didn’t Originate in Iraq While the heightened concern about head injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan is a great step, the emphasis on TBI being the signature wound of those wars is completely misses the issue as to how big of a problem head injury has been..
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FDA Approves Eli Lilly’s Test To Help Detect Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on April 11th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

In what could be a big breakthrough, Eli Lilly & Co. has won approval from federal regulators for an imaging test that detects the brain plaque that’s a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug maker received the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last Friday, and..
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After Concussion, Melissa Gilbert Shouldn’t Return To ‘Dancing’

Posted on April 11th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

One can get a concussion in the most unusual, and public, places, national television included. That’s what happened to actress Melissa Gilbert Monday night during “Dancing With The Stars.” Gilbert was taken to the hospital, which was a very smart move, after she fell and banged her head while dancing..
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Alaska Oil Drilling Worker Apparently Killed By Falling Beam

Posted on April 11th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Here’s yet another report of an oil rig worker being killed on the job. The death of David James, 56, on an man-made island off Alaska is being investigated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), according to the Alaska Dispatch. http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/falling-beam-may-have-killed-oil-field-worker#.T4QjHL8D6nA.mailto James’ employer, Doyon Drilling, is mum on..
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NCAA Kicks In $400,000 For Research On Sports Concussions

Posted on April 10th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

In a concerted effort to better understand the long-term consequences of sports-related concussions, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is contributing $400,000 to kick off a study by a consortium of researchers that will examine the effects of head injuries on student-athletes over the course of their college careers and..
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