Neuroscience
Brain injury causes impulse control problems in rats
New research from the University of British Columbia confirms for the first time that even mild brain injury can result in impulse control problems in rats.
May 8, 2017
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News tagged with brain injury patients
Neuroscience
Can brain 'pacemaker' improve lives of head trauma patients?
(HealthDay)—Deep brain stimulation—a technique that sends targeted electrical impulses to certain areas of the brain—may help people who've had a traumatic brain injury gain more independence, a new study suggests.
Sep 23, 2016
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Medical research
Study: Old flu drug speeds brain injury recovery
Researchers are reporting the first treatment to speed recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls and car crashes: a cheap flu medicine whose side benefits were discovered by accident decades ago.
Feb 29, 2012
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Neuroscience
New study shows vision rehab treatment effective for stroke and injury related blindness
Jose Romano, Chief of the Stroke Division at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, co-authored a recently published international study that shows that visual rehabilitation is effective for patients who have ...
Feb 24, 2020
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Neuroscience
How we identified brain patterns of consciousness
Humans have learned to travel through space, eradicate diseases and understand nature at the breathtakingly tiny level of fundamental particles. Yet we have no idea how consciousness – our ability to experience and learn ...
Feb 7, 2019
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Neuroscience
AI successfully used to identify different types of brain injuries
Researchers have developed an AI algorithm that can detect and identify different types of brain injuries.
May 14, 2020
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Neuroscience
Common medications could delay brain injury recovery
Drugs used to treat common complaints could delay the recovery of brain injury patients according to research led by University of East Anglia (UEA) scientists working with other UK universities including Aston and the NHS, ...
Aug 9, 2015
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Neuroscience
How your brain retrieves a memory when you sense something familiar
Several years after graduating, I visited my old university for the first time since leaving. I tried to use the familiar campus ATM, but the PIN I entered was not accepted. It took two failed attempts before I realised that ...
Jul 28, 2016
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
How much does dementia risk increase after traumatic brain injury?
Having a moderate or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in middle-age is associated with an increased risk for future dementia, according to a retrospective of study of more than 40,000 TBI patients published in PLOS Medicine ...
Jul 5, 2017
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Medical research
Study of cerebral blood vessels uncovers potential new drug targets for treating stroke
Strokes cause numerous changes in gene activity in affected small blood vessels in the brain, and these changes are potentially targetable with existing or future drugs to mitigate brain injury or improve stroke recovery, ...
Apr 14, 2023
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