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Brain Autopsies of Four Former Football Players Reveal Not All Get Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
July 26, 2011 — Preliminary results from four brains donated to research, reveal that two of the four former Canadian Football League players suffered from a brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy ... > full story -
Brain Connectivity Disrupted in Patients With Post-Concussive Syndrome
July 26, 2011 — A new study has found that patients with mild traumatic brain injury exhibit abnormal functional connectivity in the thalamus, a centrally located relay station for transmitting information ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Potential Stroke Treatment That May Extend Time to Prevent Brain Damage
July 25, 2011 — A naturally occurring substance shrank the size of stroke-induced lesions in the brains of experimental mice -- even when administered as much as 12 hours after the event, researchers have ... > full story -
Bioengineers Identify the Cellular Mechanisms of Traumatic Brain Injury; New Hope for Treatment of TBI in Veterans Wounded by Explosions
July 22, 2011 — Bioengineers have identified, for the very first time, the mechanism for diffuse axonal injury and explained why cerebral vasospasm is more common in blast-induced brain injuries than in brain ... > full story -
Real-Time Data Recorded on Football Player Captures Impact That Caused Broken Neck
July 20, 2011 — While studying concussions in a high school football team, researchers captured the impact of an 18-year-old player who broke his neck during a head-down tackle in ... > full storyMore: -
Single Traumatic Brain Injury May Prompt Long-Term Neurodegeneration
July 18, 2011 — In a new study, researchers suggest that Alzheimer's disease-like neurodegeneration may be initiated or accelerated following a single traumatic brain injury, even in young ... > full story -
When the Brain Remembers but the Patient Doesn’t
July 14, 2011 — Brain damage can cause significant changes in behavior, such as loss of cognitive skills, but also reveals much about how the nervous system deals with consciousness. New findings demonstrate how the ... > full story -
Neuroscientists Uncover Neural Mechanisms of Object Recognition
July 13, 2011 — Neuroscientists have examined the brain of a person with object agnosia, a deficit in the ability to recognize objects, and have uncovered the neural mechanisms of object recognition. The results ... > full storyMore: -
Risk Factors Predictive of Psychiatric Symptoms After Traumatic Brain Injury
July 12, 2011 — A history of psychiatric illness such as depression or anxiety before a traumatic brain injury (TBI), together with other risk factors, are strongly predictive of post-TBI psychiatric disorders, ... > full story -
Do-It-Yourself Brain Repair Following Stroke
July 11, 2011 — Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability and death in the United States. New research has now identified a way to exploit one of the brain's self-repair mechanisms to protect nerve cells and ... > full story
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