The world needs a better MRI when it comes to finding and treating the damage that traumatic brain injury does to the brain’s inner wiring. That destruction to the brain’s axons, its nerve fibers, is essentially not visible with traditional MRIs, which diagnose bleeding and swelling of the brain. The..
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The New Orleans Saints’ practice of offering its players “bounties” to injure opposing players could make the team the target of lawsuits, according to legal scholars interviewed by The New York Times. The Times looked into the issue of what legal liability the Saints team may have for ir program..
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Leisure Activities after TBI: Part Twenty-One Leisure Activities after TBI have changed for Quinn. He was at one time a hockey player and then a hockey referee. He does not believe that he will skate again but he does want to ski as one of his Leisure Activities after TBI. Do you use..
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Joseph Landolfi, a blue-collar kid from Tony Soprano’s North Jersey, has a challenging job. He is director of neuro-oncology at the JFK Brain Tumor Center in Edison, N.J. As such, he has to deliver a lot of bad news to patients. “It’s not always an easy job … It’s not..
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It’s such a remarkable story that it made the front pages of not only the New York City tabloids but The New York Times today. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/nyregion/new-york-officer-stabbed-in-head-is-called-luckiest-unlucky-man.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/knife-rammed-nypd-officer-eder-loor-brain-sliver-leaving-blind-voiceless-paralyzed-dead-surgeon-article-1.1063995 A Manhattan police officer was stabbed in the brain by an attacker Tuesday. Yet the cop managed to pull the knife’s three-inch blade ..
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Limited Return to Work after TBI: Quinn Part Twenty Quinn and I talked about his limited return to work after TBI and how much difficulty he had. Symptoms increased even after a limited return to work after TBI. We have been kind of coming back and forth about current functioning, but..
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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 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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Attentional Abilities: Quinn Part Nineteen Quinn and I discussed the video that I had him watch the night before. Because of his attentional abilities he felt that the video was too long. I’ve noticed your sense of humor both today and when we first met. How would you describe your sense..
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Attentional Resources After TBI: Quinn Part Eighteen Divided attention is one of the most serious problems in people with brain injury because of their attentional resources after TBI. Yet Quinn, as most of our survivors had very little divided attention problems in the interview. His wife walked through once or twice...
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