Recent Posts in May, 2011

• Hormones As Biomarkers For Traumatic Brain Injury

  May 26, 2011
  Biomarkers that identify the presence or severity of brain injury have been a topic of increased interest lately. Whereas traditional scans or ...
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• Metamemory and Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

  May 25, 2011
  Metamemory is the awareness and control of your ability to remember. This could include judging how well you remember something, detecting memory ...
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• SMART Program Helps TBI Patients Recover Higher-Order Thinking

  May 24, 2011
  The Strategic Memory and Reasoning Training (SMART) program is a relatively new tool for cognitive rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury . The ...
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• Verbal Memory After Traumatic Brain Injury

  May 23, 2011
  Verbal memory (memory for words) is divided into three stages: 1) encoding, in which information in first taken in, and related to the left prefrontal ...
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• Predicting Seizures In The Acute Stage Of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

  May 18, 2011
  Post-traumatic seizures are dangerous in the first week after a severe traumatic brain injury. Currently, the recommended guideline for a child at ...
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• Abnormal Heart Rate and Autonomic Regulation After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

  May 17, 2011
  In a recent study of mild TBI patients , distinct differences in heart rate and autonomic regulation were found between people with and without a ...
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• Antidepressant Use After Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, And Spinal Cord Injury May Interfere With Recovery

  May 17, 2011
  Depression is such a common symptom after injury to the brain or spinal cord that antidepressant therapy has become almost compulsory. Although ...
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• A Case Study of Tics After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

  May 12, 2011
  Tics are a movement disorder that produce involuntary contractions of muscle, and are commonly presented as eye blinks, shrugs, grunts, or sniffs. ...
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