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Latest news and informaton on brain injury. concussion, coma, traumatic brain injury authored by noted legal authority on brain injury who is President of Brain Injury Association of New York State and past chair, Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

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Brain Trauma Foundation 2011 Webinar Series Announced

Posted on January 22, 2011
The Brain Trauma Foundation has announced the following web based education programs on traumatic brain injury: A Program to Develop a Simple Blood Test for Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury: From Bench to Bedside to FDA Approval. Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST Speaker: Ron Hayes, PhD Traumatic Brain Injury as Chronic Disease Wednesday, February 2, 2011 12:00-1:00 PM EST Speaker: Brent Masel, MD Imaging of Minor Head Trauma Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:00-1:00 PM EST Speaker: Robert D...

Congressional Brain Injury Awareness Day: March 16, 2011

Posted on January 14, 2011
Each year the Congressional Brain Injury Caucus and the Brain Injury Association of America host a brain injury awareness day on Capital Hill for members of Congress and their staff. This year, brain injury awareness day on Capitol Hill will be held on Wednesday, March 16, 2011...

Handheld device to test for concussions being developed

Posted on January 10, 2011
According to a story on ESPN News, a handheld device is being developed that would enable to test for concussions at the scene of an accident. The device is being designed by researchers at the Greensboro Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in North Carolina...

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) and traumatic brain injury.

Posted on January 09, 2011
A survey released by the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) indicates that approximately 80 percent of survey respondents experience symptoms of an additional neurologic condition called pseudobulbar affect (PBA). PBA is thought to be caused by structural damage in the brain due to injury or disease and causes involuntary and unpredictable outbursts of laughing or crying, often in socially inappropriate situations...

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Web based brain injury screening tool

Posted on January 08, 2011
Researchers at New York City?s Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed the first web-based screening tool for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). This instrument has recently been used by soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who participated in the Sixth Annual Road to Recovery Conference and Tribute in Orlando to determine if they sustained a TBI...

Prevent falls in the elderly

Posted on January 07, 2011
Fall injuries are the leading cause of injury-related hospitalization for New Yorkers. More than one third of adults 65 years and older fall each year in the United States. Many of these falls result in traumatic brain injuries. Help your loved one avoid slips, trips, and falls by taking the following steps proposed by the New York State Departmet of Health Injury Prevention Bureau: Night lights: Night lights to place in hallways, bathrooms, and bedrooms to keep pathways visible...

Prevent childhood injuries and childhood brain damage

Posted on January 06, 2011
Brain injury in children are a leading cause of death and serious injury. According to reports published by the New York State Department of Health, each day in New York State, an average of 2 children will die, 50 children will be hospitalized, and 1,342 children will be seen in emergency departments as a result of injuries...

Epilepsy and seizures may be missed following head trauma

Posted on January 05, 2011
Epilepsy may be missed in patients recovery from brain trauma, particularly those suffering a cerebral hemorrhage according to studies which were reported at the American Epilepsy Society 64th Annual Meeting. One new study found that at least one quarter of patients in intensive care with a cerebral hemorrhage who underwent evaluation with continuous electroencephalography (cEEG) were diagnosed with subclinical seizures, mostly status epilepticus...

Pesticide exposure may cause long term cognitive decline

Posted on January 04, 2011
Individuals exposed to pesticides on the job are more likely than their unexposed peers to experience a decline in cognitive function as they grow older, a study reported in the December issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine shows. The study suggests that exposure to pesticides, particularly in the workplace may be a precursor to the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease or other dementias...

US Senator Demands Safety Investigation of Helmet Manufactuers-Claims False and Misleading Advertising May Cause Needless Brain Damage

Posted on January 04, 2011
New York Times reporter, Alan Schwarz reported in today?s issue of the Times that U.S. Senator Tom Udall, D-NM, has formally requested that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate false and misleading concussion safety claims made by football helmet manufacturers and refurbishers...

High school athtletes undergoing computerized neuropsychological testing following a concussion, less likely to return to play within one week

Posted on January 03, 2011
High school athletes who undergo computerized neuropsychological testing after sustaining a concussion are less likely to return to play within one week than those not tested, researchers found in a study reported in the December issue of American Journal of Sports Medicine, "High school concussions in the 2008-2009 academic year: mechanism, symptoms, and management" ...

Comparing Coma and Anesthesia

Posted on January 02, 2011
A three year study examining similarities and differences between sleep, anesthesia and coma was published in last week?s New England Journal of Medicine Researchers found that general anesthesia is more like a reversible drug-induced coma that a deep sleep as it is often referred to by anesthesiologists...

A good new year's resolution for your brain

Posted on January 01, 2011
Today's New York Times contains a fascicnating op-ed piece by noted neurologist, Oliver Sacks, This Year, Change Your Mind. Here is Dr. Sack's New Year's resolution: New Year?s resolutions often have to do with eating more healthfully, going to the gym more, giving up sweets, losing weight ? all admirable goals aimed at improving one?s physical health...

Brain Injury Association of New Jersey teams with State of New Jersey to create web sites to prevent dangerous driving among teens

Posted on December 26, 2010
The State of New Jersey, through the state?s Division of Highway Traffic Safety and the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey have teamed together to create a program aimed at high schools to encourage safer driving. The "U Got Brains Champion Schools Project" will give $1,000 to two area schools to create their own initiative and compete against 17 others to win driving simulators...

Program to assist brain injured veterans to return to community

Posted on December 24, 2010
The US Navy Seals blog, posted a story on a new project sponsored by the Heath Services Research and development Service of the VA Hospital in Tampa, Florida to assist patients who are suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI) to be able to ?independently plan, organize, and complete everyday activities,? The $3 million project, dubbed as ?Smart Home,? utilizes advanced technology to return to the community and perform activities of daily living...

NFL funds brain imaging research to study MEG Scans

Posted on December 23, 2010
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has been awarded a $100,000 grant by the National Football League to study a new way to diagnose traumatic brain injury through a brain imaging technique called Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging...

Military must provide cognitive rehabilitation benefits for soldiers with brain injury

Posted on December 22, 2010
Earlier this week National Public Radio (NPR) reported the shocking news that TriCare, the military?s health insurance program has refused to provide cognitive rehabilitation benefits for brain injured soldiers. You never leave the wounded on the battlefield and the military can never be permitted to leave those who suffer the lasting effects of traumatic brain injury without the best chance for recovery...

NFL provides grants to study concussion testing

Posted on December 22, 2010
The National Football League has announced a grant of $100,000 grant to the UPMC Sports Medicine concussion program and East Tennessee State University to study concussions in youth football players ages 8-12. A total of $1.6 million in grants is going to 16 different research or medical organizations, with $988,224 heading for the study of concussions...

Isn't it time for a National Brain Injury Plan?

Posted on December 17, 2010
Earlier this week, Congress voted unnanimously to create a national plan to combat Alzheimer's disease. The bill would establish a National Alzheimer's Project within the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate the nation's approach to research, treatment and caregiving...

Traumatic Brain Injury: Defining Best Practice--New Text

Posted on December 17, 2010
My partner, Shana De Caro and I are honored to be contributing authors to the December 2010 edition of Traumatic Brain Injury: Defining Best Practice published this month by the Psychiatric Clinics of North America. (December 2010, Vol. 33, No. 4) This current volume of the Psychiatric Clinics is entirely devoted to traumatic brain injury and includes chapters by the leading authorities on the pathophysiology of TBI, blast injuries, management of mild TBI, the neurobehavioral sequelae of TBI, brain injury imaging, the use of neuropsychological assessments and the rehabilitation of TBI Victims...

Post traumatic seizures following traumatic brain injury in children twice as likely as adults

Posted on December 10, 2010
In the first study to utilize continuous EEG monitoring (cEEG) to define the incidence of early post traumatic seizures (EPTS) in children compared to published rates in adults, investigators at the University of Colorado followed pediatric patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) admitted to Denver Children?s Hospital over a nine month period...

Brain Injury Association of America launches new web site

Posted on December 09, 2010
The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) has launched its new website. This site offers information on available support services, upcoming training and education opportunities, the opportunity to participate in new online forums and other important brain injury information...

New brain injury public service videos from the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center

Posted on December 08, 2010
The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) recently launched three public service announcements to encourage service members to obtain a medical evaluation t after sustaining a blow or jolt to the head that might have caused a concussion. You can view the DVBIC videos on concussion and mild traumatic brain injuries by clicking here.

New Jersey enacts youth sports concussion law

Posted on December 07, 2010
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie today signed legislation to protect and prevent concussions in student-athletes participating in New Jersey interscholastic youth sports programs. The bill adopts a multi-faceted approach, requiring the Department of Education (DOE) to develop an interscholastic athletic head injury safety training program to be completed by school physicians, coaches and athletic trainers of public and nonpublic school interscholastic sports programs...

New brain exhibit opens at New York City's American Museum of Natural History

Posted on December 02, 2010
A new exhibit featuring the brain has opened in New York City at The American Museum of Natural History. Brain: The Inside Story, will give you a new perspective and insight into the human brain using imaginative art, vivid brain scan imaging, and thrilling interactive exhibits that will engage the whole family...

Nerve cell connections captured by new imaging system

Posted on December 01, 2010
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, applying a state-of-the-art imaging system to brain-tissue samples from mice, have been able to quickly and accurately locate and count the myriad connections between nerve cells in unprecedented detail, as well as to capture and catalog those connections' surprising variety...

New England Journal Of Medicine study confirms that medical malpractice still out of control

Posted on November 30, 2010
In a front-page study, the New York Times reported efforts "to make hospitals safer for patients are falling short, researchers report in the first large study in a decade to analyze harm from medical care and to track it over time." The study, "conducted from 2002 to 2007 in 10 North Carolina hospitals, found that harm to patients was common and that the number of incidents did not decrease over time...

White Plains, New York: Brain Injury Conference

Posted on November 30, 2010
The Burke Rehabilitation Hospital will host a workshop sponsored by the American Society of Neurorehabilitation (ASNR) December 3 and 4, 2010, on Burke?s campus, 785 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, N.Y. ?Traumatic Brain Injury: The Road to Recovery,? will span the spectrum of brain injury from pre-hospital and critical care management to community reentry...

NPR Youth Sport Concussion Report

Posted on November 29, 2010
Student athletes are bigger and stronger than they were a decade ago, and they play rougher. The increased concern about concussion risks in NFL players has parents, coaches and doctors worried about the risk of head injury in kids' sports. Concussions are now the second most common injury in kids' sports, and there's some evidence that girls may be more likely to end up in the emergency room than boys...

Seziure Disorders and Epilepsy-Special Education Campaign

Posted on November 29, 2010
Seizure disorders and epilepsy frequently result following a traumatic brain injury. The condition takes many different forms and can attack without warning. The condition can affect an individual?s ability to speak, talk, think, or walk. An individual suffering from seizures or epilepsy caused by a brain injury may suffer from bed wetting, or uncontrolled movement of their bowels...

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