The cap also includes a collection of textile - based, dry sensors that measure electrical activity in the brain, including signs that indicate the onset
of mild traumatic brain injury.
In our practice, we see countless accident victims who have
sustained mild traumatic brain injuries in accordance with this criteria but who are routinely told by insurers thay they have not sustained a head injury.
The article, Cognitive improvement
after mild traumatic brain injury measured with functional neuroimaging during the acute period, was published by PLoS One (doi: 10.137 / journal.pone.0126110).
The long - lasting symptoms that many patients contend with
following mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), also known as concussion, may be posttraumatic disorder (PTSD) and not postconcussion syndrome (PCS).
Dr. Mac Donald's team studied five - year outcomes in 50 service members who
experienced mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in Iraq or Afghanistan and compared the findings to 44 controls who were deployed but not injured.
By looking at the molecular aftermath of concussion in an unusual way, a team of researchers at Brown University and the Lifespan health system has developed a candidate panel of blood biomarkers that can accurately
signal mild traumatic brain injury within hours using standard, widely available lab arrays.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- By looking at the molecular aftermath of concussion in an unusual way, a team of researchers at Brown University and the Lifespan health system has developed a candidate panel of blood biomarkers that can accurately signal
mild traumatic brain injury within hours using standard, widely available lab arrays.
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.
Concussion, also
called mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), represents 80 percent of TBI diagnoses among U.S. military service members, according to government estimates in 2010.
«Our study provides compelling preliminary evidence that brain changes
resembling mild traumatic brain injury are associated with frequently heading a soccer ball over many years,» said Dr. Lipton.
People in the military who suffer more than one
mild traumatic brain injury face a significantly higher risk of suicide, according to research by the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah.
«And the relationship between the number of traumatic brain injuries and risk of dementia was very clear... similarly, a single severe brain injury seems to have twice the risk associated with dementia as a
single mild traumatic brain injury.»
Researchers at Indiana University's School of Optometry have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to
study mild traumatic brain injury in Indiana University and high school athletes.
One - year estimates of the societal cost associated with treated cases of
mild traumatic brain injury range up to $ 32,000 per case, while estimates for treated moderate to severe cases range from $ 268,000 to more than $ 408,000.
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a type of MRI, may be able to predict functional post-deployment outcomes for veterans who
sustained mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), or concussion, during combat, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week gave its first green light to a company that wants to start selling a blood test to evaluate
for mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion.
«The potential utility of the peripheral vision reaction test is clear because it is an objective, inexpensive, and rapid test that identifies
mild traumatic brain injury patients who have a more severe underlying injury.»
The focus on academic considerations
following mild traumatic brain injury is undoubtedly important, but also proved extremely timely with the release of a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) study on the same topic just two days after NYSATA's presentation at the NYSSBA conference.
«We're really focusing
on mild traumatic brain injury, where we know the least, but the problem is the largest,» says Raul Radovitzky, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and associate director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN).
Evaluating military personnel with blast -
related mild traumatic brain injuries, researchers have found that early symptoms of post-traumatic stress, such as anxiety, emotional numbness, flashbacks and irritability, are the strongest predictors of later disability.
Perhaps as important as physical experiments are additional simulations to clarify the relationship between head impacts and the motion of the brain — in particular, what kinds of impacts give rise to the complex motion that appears to be responsible for concussions and
other mild traumatic brain injuries.
Uncinate fasiculus, an important tract with the greatest concentration of progesterone receptors, show greater injury in males than females
after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
December 16, 2013 — New findings provide insight into the damage caused
by mild traumatic brain injury and suggest approaches for reducing its harmful effects.
Since 2011, the all - boys» private school, generally known as St. Mike's, has been running programs in partnership with the David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic at the University of Toronto to support the recovery of student athletes who have sustained concussions, known medically
as mild traumatic brain injuries.