Category Archives: Brain Injury Treatment

According to clinical data, traumatic brain injury is a major cause of cognitive impairment that affects a very large population worldwide. Despite rising awareness of the debilitating and lifelong advancing consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI), currently there are no treatments that slow the degenerative process. Continue reading →

Anthony Dwyer's brain injury was not survivable, according to an agreed statement of facts entered into court Thursday. When 54-year-old Anthony Dwyer arrived at the hospital late on July 13, 2018, his pupils were fixed and dilated, he didn't respond to any painful stimuli, and he had no cough or gag reflex. All of those things are brain stem reflexes necessary to sustain life, said Crown prosecutor Chris Ryan, reading from an agreed statement of facts Thursday. Continue reading →

Committee Approves Bucco Bill to Assist Veterans with PTSD or Brain Injury Legislation sponsored by Senator Anthony M. Bucco that would make it easier for veterans to get treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder or total brain injury was approved today by the Senate Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. Buccos bill,S-2821, requires the Adjutant General of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMAVA) to develop a program to help veterans access evaluation and treatment for PTSD or total brain injury diagnosis related to military service Continue reading →

Friday, 23 October 2020 Lifestyle 19 Oct, 2020 07:15 AM4 minutes to read The patient, identified only as Richard, was 20 when he suffered severe brain damage after choking on a piece of meat. Photo / File A man who had been unable to talk or move for eight years briefly recovered from his brain injury after doctors gave him a sleeping pill. According to the medical journal Cortex, the man, named Richard in the journal, immediately remembered his father and asked for food when he woke up Continue reading →

Veterans are at higher risk for Alzheimers disease compared with the general population. Part of that has to do with military risk factors like PTSD or brain injury. High rates of diabetes among VA patients also play a role Continue reading →

COVID-19 has been a catalyst to many changes in healthcare, including the expansion of telehealth in rehabilitation. "This virus has been a catalyst to many changes in all of healthcare, including the expansion of virtual visits via telehealth. The study will focus on the experiences of rehabilitation patients and providers during the pandemic and will further inform how telehealth rehab services are performed in the future," said Dr Continue reading →

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By now, this was no longer a novel occurrence, and CIA people had come to call it getting hit. One senior intelligence officer in EEMC, the Center Polymeropoulos used to run, had gotten hit twice while traveling under cover, first in Poland in the spring of 2019, then again in Tbilisi, Georgia, that fall. He, too, was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and experienced symptoms similar to Polymeropouloss Continue reading →

There are some moments in life that come full circle. No one knows this better than Stephanie Suzadail. Continue reading →

Visit the News Hub Drugmaker purchases Disarm Therapeutics to develop treatments for neurodegenerative diseases Nerve axons (left) serve as the electrical wiring of the nervous system. According to Washington University research, a molecule called SARM1 triggers a self-destruct program in axons that leads to their degeneration (right), a process common to many neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St Continue reading →