A renowned children’s hospital in San Diego last month started a program to try to detect and prevent brain-damaging seizures in newborns, according to the North County Times. “Neuro NICU” is the new initiative at Rady Children’s Hospital, which is only one of 10 U.S. hospitals to have programs to..
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Here’s more bad news: High blood pressure can result in brain injury. That was the finding of a recent study performed by researchers at the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of California at Davis, according to Time magazine. The work looked at the connection between systolic blood pressure, which..
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Brain Injury Accident: Lori Part One A normal morning, vivid in Lori Faitel’s mind because of the normality of it, fractured in her memory because of the unexpected event that changed her life. It was April 25th, 1986, a moment in time that dictated the direction of Lori’s future. A motor..
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Doug Part Three – Spasticity and Baclofen Pumps: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/doug-dealing-with-spasticity-and-baclofen-pumps/ Doug talks about the spasticity he has on the left side of his body and the various treatments he has received for it. Spasticity is increased tension in a muscle which leads to an inability to relax. (It can result from..
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Scientists are hard at work trying to perfect sugar-cube-sized magnetic sensors that monitor brain activity, according to a story in The New York Times Sunday. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/sensors-for-brain-injuries-may-help-future-athletes.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper The article describes the work doing done at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology by researcher Svenja Knappe in Boulder, Colo...
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TBI Voices began with the story of Angela, who suffered a complicated moderate brain injury, including a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Part One of the Angela story is at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/the-tbi-voices-story-begins/ Unlike most of our other interviews, we began not with the words of our interview, but words of an essay Angela wrote about herself...
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Here’s another study that may unlock a way to combat brain injury and ailments such as Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in Toronto has found that metformin, a drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, can spur stem cells to make new brain cells, according to the Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Drug+diabetes+help+improve+brain+injuries/6894488/story.html The research..
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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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Ex-NFL player Junior Seau’s brain may not wind up being donated for research, according to various press reports Monday. Seau was Samoan, and his family were slated to meet with elders from their culture before they made a final decision on letting his brain be studied by researchers. Seau, 43,..
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An Australia court has ordered the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain to pay $8.3 million to the family of a girl who suffered severe brain damage after eating a chicken wrap. Monika Samaan was a 7-year-old in October 2005 when she got salmonella poisoning, salmonella encephalopathy, after having a chicken meal..
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