A novel PET technique that visualizes spinal cord injuries provides critical information about which patients may be able to regain mobility, according to new research published in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear ...
Feb 21, 2025
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Mia Jack was stealing a glance backward when she lost control of the quadbike she'd been motoring around a family gathering.
Feb 20, 2025
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Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability in the world. Blunt force trauma to the brain, often from a bad fall or traffic accident, accounts for the deaths of over 61,000 Americans each year. Over ...
Feb 19, 2025
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A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta—a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The findings suggest that vascular dysfunction ...
Feb 12, 2025
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Active management after concussion is the best way for patients to recover and get back to school and work as quickly as possible, according to a Clinical Practice paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Jan 30, 2025
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A new international study has unveiled critical insights in understanding post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), a condition that can develop following traumatic brain injury. Published in Theranostics, the study highlights the important ...
Jan 27, 2025
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Researchers at The Podium Institute for Sports Medicine and Technology, situated within Oxford University's Institute of Biomedical Engineering, have recruited their first participants for a new study exploring the impact ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Monitoring molecular changes in the brain caused by cancer and other neurological pathologies in a non-invasive way is one of the major challenges in biomedical research. A new experimental technique has achieved this by ...
Dec 31, 2024
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Richard Addante, who has spent more than a decade researching episodic memory—the cognitive process that involves processing and retrieving long-term memory—has identified a new kind of human memory process.
Dec 16, 2024
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Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, that weakens muscles. While scientists are aware of this link between ...
Dec 16, 2024
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