Trauma
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MDMA Is Off the Table, So What’s Next for PTSD?
Newer options vary from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder drug methylphenidate to transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Commentary
New Tourniquet: The AED for Bleeding?
Inflatable tourniquet device may help stop bleeding in trauma situations, a common preventable cause of death.
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Can a Stroke Be Caused by Cervical Manipulation?
Though rare, internal carotid artery dissection represents one of the most common causes of stroke in young and middle-aged adults.
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A New Treatment Target for PTSD?
PTSD severity was more robustly associated with cerebellar volume differences than PTSD diagnosis.
Perspectives
A Military Nurse Saves a Life After a Brutal Rollover Crash
After watching a woman being ejected from her car then run over by a trailer, a nurse stabilizes her for transport to the hospital.
News
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.
Commentary
What can you do during a mass shooting? This MD found out
We were seeing high-velocity gunshot wounds that I’ve seen for 20 years in the Army. I know how to fix them. But there wasn’t a single thing I...
News
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...
News
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...