News tagged with brain injury

Related topics: traumatic brain injury , brain , stroke , brain damage , brain function

New device for rapid, mobile detection of brain injury

When accidents that involve traumatic brain injuries occur, a speedy diagnosis followed by the proper treatment can mean the difference between life and death. A research team, led by Jason D. Riley in the Section on Analytical ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New evidence of interhuman aggression and human induced trauma 126,000 years ago

The study of a cranium of an East Asian human from the late Middle Pleistocene age from Maba, China, brings to the fore evidence that interhuman aggression and human induced trauma occurred 126,000 years ago.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Why do woodpeckers resist head impact injury?

Head injury is a common concern around the world, but researchers suggest that woodpeckers may have an answer for minimizing such devastating injuries. As reported in the Oct. 26 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE, an ana ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can magnetism help us control the brain, remotely?

University at Buffalo scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles to remotely control ion channels, neurons in cell culture and even the movement of a tiny worm.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Foreign Accent Syndrome: Oregon woman develops foreign accent after surgery

(AP) -- Karen Butler has a British-sounding accent, but she's never been to Europe. She woke up from dental surgery one day talking funny. A year and a half later her "foreign" accent remains, and her story ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

App for mobile phones helps diagnose concussions

(AP) -- The next tool in the campaign against concussions might be your smartphone. A doctor at the University of North Carolina teamed with other head-trauma researchers to develop an application for mobile devices that ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Molecular architecture of key NMDA receptor subunit revealed

Structural biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in collaboration with colleagues at Emory University have determined the molecular structure of a key portion, or subunit, of a receptor type commonly expressed ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Houston doctors say Giffords can attend launch

(AP) -- Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is set to reach an important milestone this week when she ventures from her Houston rehabilitation hospital for the first time to watch her astronaut husband ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tragic romance eclipses 2nd-to-last shuttle flight

(AP) -- Looking back on the horror of that Saturday in January, this seems miraculous today: that Mark Kelly would indeed command the next-to-last space shuttle flight and that his wounded wife, Gabrielle ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 24, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Pfizer says patient died in oral RA drug study

(AP) -- Pfizer Inc. confirmed that one patient who was taking its drug candidate tofacitinib, a pill designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, died during a recent clinical trial and said the death was connected to the drug.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anti-depressants boost brain cells after injury in early studies

Anti-depressants may help spur the creation and survival of new brain cells after brain injury, according to a study by neurosurgeons at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Control the cursor with power of thought

The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying epilepsy, for the first time to show that ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The Medical Minute: March is brain injury awareness month

March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. Traumatic brain injuries are disruptions or changes in the way the brain functions that occur due to a blow or jolt to the head or penetrating injuries. The severity can range ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Repeated stress produces long-lasting resistance to stroke damage in the brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innate protective response that makes the brain resistant to injury from stroke can be made to last for months longer than previously documented, researchers at Washington University School ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hydrocortisone therapy for trauma patients associated with reduced hospital-acquired pneumonia risk

Patients admitted to a hospital with major trauma and treated with the steroid hydrocortisone were less likely to be diagnosed with hospital-acquired pneumonia than patients who received placebo, according to a study in the ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0