Sentences with phrase «brain injury works»

This research gives scientists a better insight into how brain injury works.

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It's the sort of work that might one day help those with more severe brain injuries.
In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)
Positives Our defence has a leader with wealth of experience Creativity in abundance Ramsey still has licence to make late runs to the box Xhaka and wilshere both play 6s taking turns to hold and doing the dirty work Sanchez and Ozil switching wings havoc through crossing or cutting inside Lacazette being provided for Giroud our option from the bench Negatives Ozil playing as a winger wouldn't defend (mustafi will provide cover as he wouldn't overlap as much as bellerin) No Giroud Lacazette dynamic combination (would still happen by subbing wilshere caution for injuries Ramsey moves to 8 lacazette plays behind Giroud) Slow and aging metserker (makes up for with football brain and also pacy wing backs) No outright cdm (wouldn't need one as no overlapping wing backs to cover as creativity is enough ufront would concentrate on defending
He is a former amateur rugby player and has been working in the field of brain injury for more than 15 years.
Since training with Anat 6 years ago, I have worked successfully with children with autism, torticollis, cerebral palsy, strokes, congenital hip problems, brain injuries and malformations, and developmental delays.
Concussion and Sports Related Head Injury: Code 280.13 C requires the Iowa high school athletic association and the Iowa girls high school athletic union to work together to distribute the CDC guidelines and other information to inform and educate coaches, students, and parents and guardians of students of the risks, signs, symptoms, and behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain injury, including the danger of continuing to play after suffering a concussion or brain injury and their responsibility to report such signs, symptoms, and behaviors if they occur.
Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 167.765 requires the department of health and senior services to work with various organizations (outlined in the statute) to promulgate rules which develop guidelines, pertinent information, and forms to educate coaches, youth athletes, and their parents and guardians of the nature and risk of concussion and brain injury including continuing to play after concussion or brain injury.
She left City Hall in mid-2016 and was chief strategy officer at Fenton Communications, recently returning to work after suffering a traumatic brain injury.
The latest round of START - UP participants was announced Monday in Buffalo, with companies that range from software developers for the legal profession and a biotech firm working on genetic markers for autism to a developer of brain injury drugs.
Injuries were once the key to learning how the brain worked, but advanced imaging techniques are now giving us detailed maps of where our skills arise
It goes beyond the structure of life and gets to biological processes, including how cells or molecules move, how cells respond to their environment or neighbors, and how the brain works or how injuries heal, he says.
The device, developed by composer and computer - music specialist Eduardo Miranda of the University of Plymouth, UK, working with computer scientists at the University of Essex, should eventually help people with severe physical disabilities, caused by brain or spinal - cord injuries, for example, to make music for recreational or therapeutic purposes.
Since most cognitive processes involve multiple parts of the brain working together, injury to white matter can impair the brain's communication network and may result in cognitive problems.
Dr. Samadani's future work aims to replicate eye - tracking's diagnostic potential for head injuries on a larger scale in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with post-concussive syndrome and post-blast military brain injury.
Working in Morrison's Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory at Columbia Engineering, the team developed a blast injury model using a shock tube and custom - designed sample receiver to simulate a primary blast event and applied it to an isolated, living model of the BBB that consisted of brain endothelial cells.
The team worked with 55 people who had experienced a traumatic brain injury or lack of oxygen to the brain and were in a minimally conscious or vegetative state.
«The works also highlights how damaging brain injury can be — and fuels the public health debate about what we can do to protect ourselves against head injuries
Pape was inspired to launch the study based on families» feedback while she worked as a speech therapist for coma patients with traumatic brain injuries.
For this work, the researchers recruited 26 young adults 18 to 22 years old with a history of diagnosed TBI an average three to four years earlier from various causes, and 30 others with no history of brain injury.
Among the awardees are researchers working on ultrasound methods for measuring brain activity, and the use of deep brain stimulation to treat traumatic brain injuries.
Voss now plans to test whether this method works on individuals who have disorders in which the memory association network is weak, such as Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury and schizophrenia.
Combining data recorded from football players with computer simulations of the brain, a team working with David Camarillo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, found that concussions and other mild traumatic brain injuries seem to arise when an area deep inside the brain shakes more rapidly and intensely than surrounding areas.
In their current work, the researchers calculated the vulnerability of each species to brain injury by establishing a mathematical relationship between properties of the skull, brain, and surrounding flesh, and the propagation of incoming shockwaves.
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.
Perhaps they could turn the space into a classroom, study whether lighting can reduce falls among older people or probe whether certain office conditions make it easier for people with traumatic brain injuries to return to work.
By studying the injuries and aptitudes of Vietnam War veterans who suffered penetrating head wounds during the war, scientists are tackling — and beginning to answer — longstanding questions about how the brain works.
«Now that we have identified this as an issue, we need to work with community organizations and correctional systems to prevent inappropriate incarceration of females with traumatic brain injury and to provide treatment so they have a better chance when they return to society,» said Dr. Geoff Fernie, institute director, research, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»
Kozai's lab is currently working with Franca Cambi, professor of neurology at Pitt, on a project to understand the role of another type of glial cell on brain injury and neuronal activity.
«Secondary benefits of this trial include the significant improvement in clinical care for children with sickle cell disease at each of the 29 sites because each location had a designated hematologist, neurologist, neuroradiologist and psychologist working as a team to identify and decrease further injury to the brain in this vulnerable population.»
These mechanisms still work even if the neural pathways from the brain are physically interrupted as the result of a spinal cord injury.
«Dr Burton's work is groundbreaking because it clarifies the roles of aquaporins in the brain during the short and long - term responses to traumatic head injury.
Wanting to learn more about how the brain copes with donor hands, cognitive neuroscientist Angela Sirigu of the French National Research Agency in Lyon and colleagues looked at two right - handed men, one age 20 and the other 42, who recently had left and right hand transplants to replace hands amputated following work injuries 3 to 4 years ago.
In the present work, the teams led by Michael Ewers (ISD) and EMBO Member Christian Haass (DZNE) focussed on the TREM2 protein, which functions in specialized brain immune cells called microglia that clear toxic material resulting from nerve cell injury.
Many drugs can not get inside the brain to do their work, and sometimes the best we can do to heal brain or spine injuries is nudge along the body's own repair mechanisms.
Because of the work of several other collaborators, Haughey says, his team knew that some sort of inflammation - promoting molecule was released from brain and targeted to the liver after brain injury to send immune system cells to the damaged area, but the identity of this go - between had been elusive for years.
Researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, at McGill University and the MUHC, are working to develop a much needed tool for helping diagnose concussions or mild traumatic brain injuries suffered by thousands of young Canadians — hockey and football players among them.
If the approach also works with human cells, it could eventually lead to cell therapies for diseases like inherited leukodystrophies — disorders of the brain's white matter — and multiple sclerosis, as well as spinal cord injuries.
«Our work suggests that cognitive reserve ¬ — the brain's ability to be resilient in the face of insult or injury — could account for the difference.»
Gregory Iverson, a linguist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, says the new study, and follow - up work, may help answer questions such as how brain injuries can cause speech loss, or even why some people learn languages more easily than others.
The ride symbolized how far Mollino has come in his recovery since he fell from a telephone pole while at work and sustained a traumatic brain injury in 2010.
A perfusion fMRI study of the neural correlates of sustained - attention and working - memory deficits in chronic traumatic brain injury.
The findings with glioblastoma came out of Emory researchersâ $ ™ work on progesterone as therapy for traumatic brain injury and more recently, stroke.
Neuroprotective drugs might seem impractical or improbable right now, after two big clinical trials testing progesterone in traumatic brain injury didn't work out.
Dr. Grafman is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Defense Meritorious Service Award, the National Institutes of Health Award of Merit and the 2010 National Institutes of Health Director's Award for his work in traumatic brain injury.
This MIT Tech Review article outlines work on a «memory prosthesis,» which could help restore brain function for those with Alzheimer's, stroke, or other types of brain injury.
Her work is designed to help people with traumatic brain injury (TBI), an impairment caused by damage to critical white matter in the brain.
Scientists from Kessler Foundation and Rutgers University compared information flow in the brain in individuals with traumatic brain injury and healthy controls, using neuroimaging and a novel working memory task, CapMan, which measures both working memory capacity and the mental manipulation of information in working memory.
They will also work to improve the understanding of neurophysiological adaptations — how the brain responds to stimulus and relays messages to the body — and neural plasticity — the brain's ability to form new connections to compensate for an injury — and their relation with balance dysfunction and sensorimotor performance.
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