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A team of Cleveland Clinic researchers, led by Damir Janigro, Ph.D., are developing a blood test that can help predict the seriousness of brain injury.

High doses of vitamin E significantly decreased in-hospital mortality following a traumatic brain injury in the first-ever randomized, controlled clinical trial of this treatment.

Early administration of hypertonic fluids after a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) doesn't improve patient outcomes, a new study finds.

Athersys Inc.’s stem cell therapy showed positive results in an early preclinical investigation of its effects in treating traumatic brain injury.

European researchers have reportedly found that a vitamin D deficiency is closely linked with chronic fatigue among patients who suffered a traumatic brain injury.

With $14.9 million of federal funding, the four-university research team will seek to develop new technology and lay the basic research foundation for improved therapies for brain trauma.

Recent developments in the 50-year-old technique of using a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for treatment of disease and other conditions have caught the interest of the brain-injury-concerned Department of Defense and the U.S. Military.

Neuroscience researchers have zeroed in on a novel mechanism that helps control the firing of electrical signals among neurons.

Intense, longer-term therapy can help stroke victims regain some arm movement years after their brain injury, U.S. researchers have found.

A newborn baby has become the first in the world to receive xenon gas treatment, pioneered in Bristol in a bid to prevent brain injury

Advanced brain scans that can detect injury earlier than before are among several improvements developed by military doctors and scientists to treat service members with traumatic brain injuries.

Kinetic Muscles Inc. (“KMI”, www.kineticmuscles.com), a leading innovator of neurorehabilitation technology, announced it has received a 2-year Phase II SBIR grant to study a new treatment for veterans returning from active duty with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

The Defense Department hopes to find a better treatment for the 100,000 troops who have been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury since 2003, and it's looking at hyperbaric chambers — often used in cases of carbon monoxide poisoning — for the answer.

Clinicians may be able to better predict the effects of strokes and other brain injuries by adapting a scanning approach originally developed for study of brain organization

Promising results from an LSU pilot study that treated veterans suffering traumatic brain injury with hyperbaric oxygen therapy have led to a national trial that will be launched in the coming weeks.

Proposed new regulations in New Jersey will require high school student athletes to obtain a doctor's approval after a concussion before returning to games.

Based on the results of preliminary research in rats, researchers say that doses of vitamin B3 -- also known as niacin -- could help people recover brain function after a stroke.

Nearly four in 10 transient ischemic attack (TIA) and minor ischemic stroke patients may experience mental impairment

Natural progesterone, the sex hormone used in the first contraceptive pills, is to be tested on patients with severe head injuries.

ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2010) — Medical College of Georgia researchers are conducting the first FDA-approved clinical trial to determine whether an infusion of stem cells from umbilical cord blood can improve the quality of life for children with cerebral palsy.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 9, 2010 - Two recent studies by neuroscientists at the University of California, Irvine, have had startling success with a neuroregenerative therapy tested in rats. The therapy may eventually help restore limb function in people with impaired mobility, long after they have experienced a stroke, traumatic injury, or the onset of neurodegenerative disease, such as Parkinson’s. NeuroRepair owns the Intellectual Property relating to the invention and pending patent applications.

Could standard treatment for traumatic brain injury be wrong? NIH grant to support research on alternative 'fuels' for injured brain

 

For the first time, researchers have clearly shown regeneration of a critical type of nerve fiber that travels between the brain and the spinal cord and which is required for voluntary movement. The regeneration was accomplished in a brain injury site in rats by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and is described in a study to be published in the April 6th early on-line edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

 

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