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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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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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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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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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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Now that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a youth-concussion bill into law, sports medicine specialists are trying to get the word out. http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/walker-signing-bills-on-reading-wolf-hunt-concussions-vj4r4jm-145779905.html Wisconsin, the 32nd state to pass a concussion law, now mandates that student athletes younger than 19 who sustain head injuries must be pulled from practice..
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Older patients with traumatic brain injury don’t fare as well as their younger counterparts when it comes to outcomes after treatment, according to a recent study. The research, “Traumatic Brain Injury in an Aging Population,” was conducted in Italy. The study was recently published in the Journal of Neurotrauma. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/neu.2011.1995..
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Andrea Vellinga was an unlikely survivor of a horrific event last Aug. 13, when a stage rig was swept down by the wind onto the audience of a Sugarland concert in Indiana. Seven people were killed at the State Fair’s Hoosier Lottery Grandstand that night. Dozens of others, including Vellinga,..
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, whose mother has Alzheimer’s disease, is committing an additional $300 million to brain research. In a press release, the Allen Institute for Brain Science said that Allen’s latest contribution will allow the organization to significantly expand its scientific programs. Like his fellow Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates,..
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A recently published study found that quantitative computed tomography (CT) scans improve outcome prediction in acute traumatic brain injury. “We believe that objective computational tools and data-driven analytical methods hold great promise for neurotrauma research, and may ultimately have a role in image analysis for clinical care,” an abstract on..
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