Sentences with phrase «of brain injury patients»

Her memory and ability to think were largely unimpaired, which is atypical of brain injury patients.

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In the practice of critical care medicine, we sometimes end up caring for patients who have suffered severe illness or injury and are deteriorating toward brain death.

O'Rourke even dismissed the moral imperative of spoon «feeding such patients, asserting that it should be undertaken only «if there is medical evidence that the (brain) injury is reversible» that [the patient] would be able to know, love, relate to people.»

Patients with suspected concussive injury are categorized as having mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI if, when they are first seen by an emergency medicine provider, they receive a score of 14 - 15 on the 15 - point Glasgow Coma Scale, which is used to determine level of consciousness based on responses to various stimuli:

In order to protect infant safety and ensure the patient and human rights of mothers and babies, we have built a non-profit organization committed to: (1) the study of exclusive breastfeeding complications that can result in brain injury and, in the most severe instances, death; and (2) raising public awareness to signs of infant hunger and the consequences that can result based on peer - reviewed research.

Medication — Patients may be prescribed a range of medications to help them deal with symptoms caused by their brain injury.

-- Patients may be prescribed a range of medications to help them deal with symptoms caused by their brain injury.

Concussion patients have irregular brain activity within the first 24 hours after their injury but increased levels of brain activity a few weeks later, which suggests that the brain may compensate for the injury during recovery, a new study reports.

His bill would limit its application to epilepsy, intractable skeletal muscular spasticity, traumatic brain injury, glaucoma, cachexia, wasting syndrome, Dravet syndrome, HIV / AIDS, Cancer, ALS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Crohn's disease, and terminal illnesses if a patient has a prognosis of less than 12 months to live.

«It is our firm belief that a brain - injured patient may not know that he or she is injured — that is the nature of the injury,» said Ling.

That might mean patients who suffer traumatic brain injury not only suffer from the physical damage of the blow to the head but also from the resulting inflammatory response, especially within the first 24 hours.

«In patients with brain injury, combat exposure by itself did not seem to correlate with the high rate of PTSD or depression or the other measures we reported,» Brody said.

«What we're showing in this paper is that patients who used a brain - machine interface for a long period of time experienced improvements in motor behavior, tactile sensations and visceral functions below the level of the spinal cord injury,» he said.

However, nearly 80 percent of patients in both categories of brain trauma suffered moderate to severe overall disability within a year after injury.

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

In the near future, we could use this information to allow cognitive control of neural prosthetics in patients with ALS or severe cervical spinal cord injury,» said Adam Sachs, neurosurgeon and associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute.

The study utilized a novel eye - tracking device to effectively measure the severity of concussion or brain injury in patients presenting to emergency departments following head trauma.

All of the patients had penetrating brain injuries, 93 percent of them from gunshot wounds.

«These very important early clinical trials could provide hope for patients with all sorts of neurologic problems that involve paralysis such as stroke, brain injury, ALS and even multiple sclerosis.»

Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a brain - computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover the ability to walk after stroke, some spinal cord injuries and certain other gait disabilities.

This new study builds on previous research from this group showing that elevated blood levels of SNTF on the day of a mild traumatic brain injury treated in the emergency room predicted those patients who would go on to suffer diffuse axonal injury and long - term cognitive dysfunction.

For the study, investigators performed continuous patient monitoring following Do Not Resuscitate — Comfort Care orders in patients with devastating brain injury to investigate the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain and the circulation during the dying process.

«Although previous research has shown that some head injury patients have these amyloid plaques shortly after the incident, these findings suggest these plaques are still present in the brains of patients over 10 years later.

The results, reported online today in Nature, suggest the technology could help patients with brain or spinal injuries recover some of the movement everyday activities require.

Despite the escalating number of brain - damaged patients, there are few brain injury case managers dedicated to helping them get the care they need.

This helps shed light on why brain injury patients seem to be at increased risk of dementia — and may help us develop treatments that reduce this risk.»

But a new study from Tel Aviv University researchers points to an «enriched environment» — specially enhanced surroundings — as a promising path for the rehabilitation of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients.

The researchers also found a striking demonstration of the underlying brain regions that are involved in gambling when they studied the gambling behaviour of patients who had experienced brain injury due to a tumour or stroke.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and epilepsy alone affect millions of patients a year.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Cebrain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health CeBrain Health Center.

Brain scans of a 23 - year - old woman who, in a traffic accident, sustained head injuries so severe she met the clinical criteria for a vegetative state are forcing many doctors to reconsider what they know about such patients» awareness.

CT scans are expensive, however, and many patients suspected of having traumatic brain injuries do not exhibit signs of visible damage when scanned.

After the tests, the researchers found that these tasks were «impaired» in those patients who had injuries in the area of the brain «involved» in attention.

Researchers at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian and the London Imperial College have analyzed the architecture of brain injuries in stroke patients for more than three yBrain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian and the London Imperial College have analyzed the architecture of brain injuries in stroke patients for more than three ybrain injuries in stroke patients for more than three years.

«And we had a team of neurologists who helped characterize the nature and scope of the patients» brain injuries.»

In this study, the researchers examined the neurological basis of these beliefs in patients with injuries to different parts of the brain.

«Video games to improve mobility after a stroke: More than three years study of 167 patients with brain injuries.»

The study included 446 patients who suffered traumatic brain injuries and underwent a urine test for the presence of THC in their system.

The ultimate goal of this research is to help patients recover more quickly from traumatic brain injuries.»

«The purpose of this study is not to propose transfusion guidelines, but rather to show that anemia can be harmful to patients with traumatic brain injuries,» Litofsky said.

«More research is needed to develop treatment protocols for anemic patients with traumatic brain injuries,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the MU School of Medicine's Division of Neurological Surgery and lead author of the study.

Approximately half of patients hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries are anemic, according to recent studies, but anemia's effects on the recovery of these patients is not clear.

Using what are called brain — machine interfaces (BMIs)-- essentially cyborg connections between prosthetic devices and the nervous system — researchers for the first time were able to show that the process of learning to use a BMI - controlled device can trigger significant neurological recovery in patients with chronic spinal cord injuries.

The study shows that one out of three stroke patients who present with at - risk brain tissue on their scans improve and some may walk out of the hospital saved from what would otherwise have been a devastating brain injury.»

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that soccer players who frequently head the ball have brain abnormalities resembling those found in patients with concussion (mild traumatic brain injury).

Clues to the underlying causes of boredom have come from patients who suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBI).

A team of investigators at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, N.C., has developed a tool that accounts for variables such as age and severity of brain injury to help physicians and hospital staff calculate a patient's likelihood of survival and returning to independence after hospital discharge.

The findings offer new hope for millions of traumatic brain injury patients, including thousands of veterans wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Early in her restless, inventive career, Elizabeth Phelps was trying to understand the deep structure of memory by showing word lists to people with amnesia — patients who'd survived a brain injury or stroke but lost the ability to remember.

Liver cirrhosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with complications such as HE resulting in recurrent emergency hospitalizations, irreversible brain injury, and a poor prognosis.2 - 5 There is some evidence that HE patients have a reduced relative abundance of certain beneficial gut microbiota (e.g. Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae) and an enrichment of potentially pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae ¬ - a microbial profile that has been linked to cognitive impairment and systemic inflammation in cirrhotic patients with HE.1 Faecal microbiota transplants have been used successfully to correct dysbiotic conditions such as recurrent Clostridium difficile and ulcerative colitis,6 - 8 and a preliminary report suggested that FMT may be promising in the management of HE.9