With the National Hockey League lockout now history, there’s been a spate of player concussions that have raised the issue of safety again, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/sports/hockey/another-wave-of-concussions-hits-nhl.html?_r=0 In the past two weeks, 11 NHL players have suffered concussions, including the league’s most valuable player, the Pittsburgh Penguins..
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Return to High School After Severe TBI: Zach Part Fourteen Zach did return to high school after severe TBI. We talked about the difficulties he had with this and what work he had to make up. In September you return to high school after severe TBI? Yes. Did they do..
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Friends After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Thirteen Homecoming is a day, a weekend, a celebration. Life, recovery takes longer. We will discuss Zach’s homecoming and his friends after severe brain injury. Now the flip side of that is that life coming home wasn’t quite as simple as you thought it..
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The Wall Street Journal Tuesday made a good case for the early testing of patients for dementia, even though there is no cure, so to speak, for the decline in brain function as one ages. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324503204578320032854013890.html The story points out that whether older people should be screened for dementia has..
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Community Support After TBI: Zach Part Twelve From our first voice on TBI Voices, Lethan Candlish, we have heard much about the value of community support after TBI, especially in small towns, when someone returns home after a severe brain injury. As Lethan says in Who in Am I Again, http://whoamiagain.com..
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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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Pain After Traumatic Brain Injury: Zach Part Eleven In part eleven Zach and I discussed the pain he suffered and how walking was the source of most of his pain after traumatic brain injury. How long were you in Spaulding? Two months. So it’s middle of July when you got out?..
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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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Speech Pathology: Zach Part Ten Speech pathologists are some of the true trench warriors of brain injury recovery. They not only deal with the language challenges that come after brain injury, but they must also address physical deficits that can come both from the primary brain injury, but also from other..
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