«This is the first evidence that we are driving changes in the brain in
animals after brain injury.
Not exact matches
«We have shown that just six weeks in an enriched environment can help
animals recover from cognitive dysfunctions
after traumatic
brain injury,» said Prof. Pick.
After a two - week course of this multimodal regimen, males showed a dramatic increase in sensorimotor function (50 percent to 75 percent), working memory (decreases in path length to a platform: 375 cm to 300 cm) and a decrease in
animals presenting with severe
brain injury volumes (80 percent to 36 percent) compared to hypothermia and NAC treatment.
While other studies have described a «window of vulnerability» in
animals immediately
after brain injury, the UF study is one of the first to examine how it may translate to humans.
And when the team looked at some
animals»
brains right
after this concussion event, they saw no serious
injury.
In
animal studies, intermittent fasting
after injury improved
brain function from stroke and diseases that affect the
brain.
Although her main emphasis throughout her career as a veterinarian has been small
animal general medicine and surgery, prior to veterinary school she spent three years as a research associate in the department of (human) neurosurgery at th Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia investigating the biochemical changes that occur in the
brain after severe head
injury.