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Brain Injury Awareness Month is Here

By on March 3rd, 2021

Posted in Brain Injury News

Did you know at least 2.8 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury each year, and at least 5.3 million Americans live with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)-related disability? Every year when March comes around we observe Brain Injury Awareness Month. The Brain Injury Association of America’s (BIAA) theme for the… Continue reading

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a Risk Factor for Dementia

By on September 24th, 2020

Posted in Brain Injury News

Traumatic brain injuries are considered risk factors for other neurologic diseases such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and epilepsy. A recently published, British Journal of Psychiatry article discusses “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a Risk Factor for Dementia.” The researchers from the University College of London, UK, Division of Psychiatry, conducted a… Continue reading

Long Term Post Concussion Symptoms

By on September 11th, 2020

Posted in Brain Injury News

I recently took the deposition of a neuropsychologist who maintained that all patients having sustained a mild traumatic brain injury recover within six months. When presented with recent studies demonstrating the inaccuracy of that opinion, he acknowledged that he was unfamiliar with those studies. Rather, he relied on a 2004… Continue reading

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) for mTBI and PTSD

By on July 9th, 2020

Posted in Brain Injury News

I recently was sent an article entitled “Magnetoencephalography for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” published in the Journal of Neuroimaging Clinical North America. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a non-invasive technique for investigating human brain activity. It allows the measurement of ongoing brain activity on a millisecond-by-millisecond basis as… Continue reading

Traumatic Brain Injury and Homelessness

By on March 9th, 2020

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A case study published in the Lancet, Public Health looked at the growing public health concern of homelessness and its relationship with traumatic brain injury. The systematic review and meta-analysis examined original research studies that reported data on the prevalence or incidence of traumatic brain injury, or the association between… Continue reading

Cognitive Reserve and Age Predict Cognitive Recovery after Traumatic Brain Injury

By on July 12th, 2019

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Researchers from Melbourne, Australia looked at cognitive reserve and age as factors to predict the cognitive recovery after a mild to severe traumatic brain injury. Recognizing that the persistence of injury-related cognitive impairments can have devastating consequences after traumatic brain injury, the researchers undertook a longitudinal study to examine the… Continue reading

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