Head Trauma
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Repeated Head Trauma May Lead to Parkinsonism in Patients with CTE
Repeated head injury from years of contact sports play in men with confirmed chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) may cause pathological changes in the substantia nigra that lead to parkinsonism in a subset of patients with CTE.
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Is Autologous Bone Marrow Cell Therapy a Potential Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury?
This study proposes that autologous bone marrow mononuclear intravenous infusion for severe traumatic brain injury in children appears safe and potentially may be efficacious.
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Usefulness of the Physical Examination in the Concussed Patient
This article suggests that certain specific physical examination findings may be helpful in evaluating and monitoring patients with sports-related concussion using oculovestibular responses and balance tests.
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New Research Suggests Treating Traumatic Brain Injury as a Chronic Illness
The road to recovery might be longer than initially thought.
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Major Traumatic Brain Injury Can Raise Dementia Risk
Patients with brain bleeding and a long hospital stay were 1.5 times more likely to develop dementia compared to those with no injury.
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U.K., U.S. Research Groups Report Progress on Objective Concussion Test
Word that a saliva test can accurately identify whether an individual has sustained a concussion has created quite a buzz in recent weeks.
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Plasma Biomarker May Indicate When Athletes Can Return to Play After Concussion
A better understanding of these biomarkers may help improve health and safety of athletes.
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Neuropathology and Dementia in Football Players With CTE
The authors of a cross-sectional study involving analysis of data from the ongoing Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) study found that dementia is likely a result of neuropathologic changes associated with repetitive head injury as well as non-head trauma-associated vascular pathologic changes in patients with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
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Significance of Brain Microbleeds After Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic microbleeds are common in patients with any severity of traumatic brain injury and may be a useful biomarker to predict clinical outcomes.
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Cognitive-Motor Dissociation in Patients Admitted to ICUs After Acute Brain Injuries
In a large, prospective, single-center study, more than one in six patients with acute brain injuries may have cognitive-motor dissociation (CMD) (e.g., they harbor capacity to modulate their brain activity in response to motor commands while remaining behaviorally unresponsive at the bedside). Some acute CMD patients were found to have a much higher chance for recovery of neurological functions and for reaching independent levels of activities of daily living by 12 months after brain injury.