Neuroscience
Why kids' recovery times vary widely after brain injury
Why do some youngsters bounce back quickly from a traumatic brain injury, while others suffer devastating side effects for years?
Jul 14, 2015
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News tagged with severe brain injury
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Targeting bacteria in the gut might help burn and trauma patients
A study published in PLOS ONE has found that burn patients experience dramatic changes in the 100 trillion bacteria inside the gastrointestinal tract.
Jul 8, 2015
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Pediatrics
Extremely preterm infants enrolled in RCTs do not experience worse outcomes
In a group of more than 5,000 extremely preterm infants, important in-hospital outcomes were neither better nor worse in infants enrolled in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) compared with eligible but nonenrolled infants, ...
Jun 16, 2015
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Neuroscience
Blood test to detect traumatic brain injury could reduce unnecessary CT scans
New study results show that a simple blood test to measure brain-specific proteins released after a person suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can reliably predict both evidence of TBI on radiographic imaging and injury ...
May 18, 2015
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Neuroscience
Researchers adapt TB diagnostic tool for determining traumatic brain injury
A new detection approach originally developed for tuberculosis diagnostics is being adapted as a tool for determining traumatic brain injury, one of the challenges facing the medical community as it works to treat military ...
Apr 29, 2015
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Neuroscience
Emotional adjustment following traumatic brain injury
Life after a traumatic brain injury resulting from a car accident, a bad fall or a neurodegenerative disease changes a person forever. But the injury doesn't solely affect the survivor – the lives of their spouse or partner ...
Oct 24, 2014
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Cardiology
Heart rate may predict survival and brain function in comatose cardiac arrest survivors
Researchers may have developed a way to potentially assist prognostication in the first 24 hours after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) when patients are still in a coma. Their findings are revealed today at Acute Cardiovascular ...
Oct 20, 2014
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Neuroscience
Scientists find 'hidden brain signatures' of consciousness in vegetative state patients
Scientists in Cambridge have found hidden signatures in the brains of people in a vegetative state, which point to networks that could support consciousness even when a patient appears to be unconscious and unresponsive. ...
Oct 16, 2014
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Health
Study examines shift in resuscitation practices in military combat hospitals
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) are the first prolonged conflicts the United States has been involved in since the Vietnam War. Medical and surgical advances have often emerged from the ...
Jul 16, 2014
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Neuroscience
Smart treatment predictions for brain trauma
Most people who suffer a severe brain injury take years to recover – if they recover at all. But the right treatment in the crucial hours following an accident can make all the difference. Now an EU project is building ...
Jun 16, 2014
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