by National Research Council of Science & Technology Mechanism of action of inflammatory activation enzymes of Hevin-calcyon interaction. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Patients with brain injury (caused by stroke or trauma) primarily rely on rehabilitation therapy for recovery, as there are no other known effective treatment methods. The rate of recovery from brain...
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: MECHANISM OF ACTION OF INFLAMMATORY ACTIVATION ENZYMES OF HEVIN-CALCYON INTERACTION CREDIT: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY(KIST) Patients with brain injury (caused by stroke or trauma) primarily rely on rehabilitation therapy for recovery, as there are no other known effective treatment methods. The rate of recovery from brain injury...
“Traumatic brain injury is a major risk factor for dementia, but the reason this is the case has remained mysterious,” said Ted Allison, co-author and professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the Faculty of Science. “Through this research, we have discovered one important way they are linked—namely, post-injury seizures.” Image credit: pixy.org, CC0 Public Domain “There is currently...
by Beck Lockwood, University of Birmingham Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Assessing the ability of unresponsive patients with severe brain injury to understand what is being said to them could yield important insights into how they might recover, according to new research. A team at the University of Birmingham has shown that responses to speech can be measured...
ELSEVIER Philadelphia, December 29, 2020 – Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric disorder brought on by physical and/or psychological trauma. How its symptoms, including anxiety, depression and cognitive disturbances arise remains incompletely understood and unpredictable. Treatments and outcomes could potentially be improved if doctors could better predict who would develop PTSD. Now, researchers using...
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM IMAGE: UVA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE RESEARCHER JAMES STONE, MD, PHD, IS HELPING DEVELOP A MODEL PREDICTING HOW REGULAR EXPOSURE TO ARTILLERY BLASTS AFFECTS THE BRAINS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL. Military and law-enforcement personnel repeatedly exposed to low-level blasts have significant brain changes – including an increased level of brain injury and...
by Norwegian University of Science and Technology A new study shows that people who have had concussions sometimes develop long-term after effects, including sleep disturbances. The findings could also be of use to other patient groups. Every year, thousands of people end up in the emergency room or hospital with minor head injuries, often diagnosed...
by National Institutes of Health A study from the National Institutes of Health confirms that neurofilament light chain as a blood biomarker can detect brain injury and predict recovery in multiple groups, including professional hockey players with acute or chronic concussions and clinic-based patients with mild, moderate, or severe traumatic brain injury. The research was...
CREDIT: PHOTO BY JOHAN WINGBORG Certain patients who receive hospital care for coronavirus infection (COVID-19) exhibit clinical and neurochemical signs of brain injury, a University of Gothenburg study shows. In even moderate COVID-19 cases, finding and measuring a blood-based biomarker for brain damage proved to be possible. Some people infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 get...
by Iqbal Pittalwala, University of California – Riverside A study examining the effect of the immune receptor known as Toll-like Receptor 4, or TLR4, on how memory functions in both the normal and injured brain has found vastly different cellular pathways contribute to the receptor’s effects on excitability in the uninjured and injured brain. Further,...
