An estimated 2.8 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and one in 60 people in the United States lives with a TBI-related disability. Dealing with the long-term effects of brain ...

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to increased rates of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. The mechanisms by which trauma can trigger neurodegeneration are increasingly understood. For example, ...

Age, location and severity of injury, mechanism of injury and medical ... Northwest discussed pre-hospital management of traumatic brain injuries. “Fall back on airway breathing, ABCs and ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is still a major public health problem worldwide, and the research of neuroprotective drugs has encountered great difficulties. Whole body vibration (WBV) is a safe and ...

Alexandra Stillman, the director of Concussion, Traumatic Brain Injury & Neurorehabilitation at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In a healthy brain, “helper cells” called ...

Objectives: To determine if boxing exposure has changed over time and hence if current professional boxers are at the same risk of developing chronic traumatic brain injury (CTBI) as historical ...

aDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada bDivision of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health ...

The Texas Brain Injury Advisory Council (TBIAC) addresses strategic planning, policy, rules, and services related to preventing brain injury and providing rehabilitation, and long-term services and ...

Some 60% to 90% of people with UWS caused by a traumatic brain injury will regain consciousness within one year. Unfortunately, those with UWS due to lack of oxygen more often don't. Restoring the ...

A York County high school guidance counselor who was hospitalized after collapsing in her driveway while on a New Year’s Day run died Thursday. Carrie Schmoyer, 50, who worked at Spring Grove ...

Self-reported history of traumatic brain or spinal cord injury was further reviewed by our neurological reviewers. The validated verbal autopsy technique involving household members of people who died ...