Traumatic Brain Injury
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New Evidence Suggests Long COVID Could Be a Brain Injury
Viral-borne brain injury discovered in patients with long COVID symptoms of brain fog, study finds.
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Traumatic Brain Injury and CVD: What’s the Link?
Patients with TBI may face increased risk of cardiovascular disease after injury.
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African Psychedelic Tied to ‘Remarkable’ Improvement in TBI-Related Psych Symptoms, Functional Disability
The results are promising but preliminary.
Literature Review
Experimental Therapy Restores Cognitive Function in Chronic TBI
This is the first time a DBS device has been implanted in the central thalamus in humans.
Commentary
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for traumatic brain injury: Promising or wishful thinking?
With respect to chronic TBI, it is difficult to imagine how HBOT could reverse brain injury that has been present for months or years.
Literature Review
Unique twin study sheds new light on TBI and risk of cognitive decline
“We know that TBI increases the risk of dementia in later life, but we haven’t known if TBI affects cognitive function, causes cognitive decline...
From the Journals
TBI tied to increased mental health diagnoses, time to suicide
“Folks in mental health probably have a lot of patients who have brain injury in their practice, and they don’t know it and that’s an important...
From the Journals
Concussion may not affect IQ in children
“The message I give parents is that most kids recover within 2-4 weeks.”
Literature Review
‘Brain fitness program’ may aid memory loss, concussion, ADHD
Study findings “appear to show that multimodal interventions which are known to increase neuroplasticity in the brain, when personalized, can have...
Literature Review
New data on traumatic brain injury show it’s chronic, evolving
“Our results dispute the notion that TBI is a discrete, isolated medical event with a finite, static functional outcome following a relatively...
Commentary
What to expect in the new concussion guidelines
“Right now, at least at the concussion conference I went to and in the upcoming consensus statement, they will not comment on a specific sport.”...