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December 23, 2024

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Getting Rehab Earlier Improves Concussion Outcomes

Dec. 19, 2024 — People who suffer from continued symptoms of concussion should seek a referral to physical therapy as soon as possible, new research ...

Study Sheds Light on What Causes Long-Term Disability After a Stroke and Offers New Path Toward Possible Treatment

Dec. 17, 2024 — Researchers have revealed how an overlooked type of indirect brain damage contributes to ongoing disability after a stroke. The paper shows how the thalamus -- a sort of central networking hub that ...

Fetal Defense: Study Reveals Early Immune Protection in the Womb

Dec. 9, 2024 — Research revealed that foetuses are not as defenceless as once thought; they can actually fight infections from within the womb. This new understanding could significantly change the way doctors protect foetuses from infections that lead to serious ...

Study Helps Solve Mystery Between Repeated Head Impacts in Sports and Location of Brain Degeneration in CTE

Dec. 9, 2024 — A new study is helping solve the mystery as to why the brain shrinks in a unique pattern, known as atrophy, in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). This research provides novel evidence that ...

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Early Detection of High-Altitude Hypoxic Brain Injury

Dec. 6, 2024 — People who climb too fast or too high risk acute altitude sickness, which can lead to life-threatening hypoxic brain injury. By using in vivo electrochemistry, researchers demonstrated that ...

Preventing Brain Injury Complications With Specialized Optical Fibers

Dec. 4, 2024 — Fiber optics are a means of transmitting information at incredibly high speeds; however, the technology can be used for more than just providing a fast internet connection. Researchers have developed ...

Healing the Gut Can Reduce Long-Term Impact of Stroke

Nov. 26, 2024 — Healing the gut may be the key to improving long-term recovery in stroke patients, scientists have found. The latest of multiple studies highlights the potential of this novel avenue of treatment, ...

Soccer Heading Damages Brain Regions Affected in CTE, Study Finds

Nov. 27, 2024 — Soccer heading may cause more damage to the brain than previously thought, according to a new ...

Neural Mechanisms of Sleep-Dependent Motor Learning Revealed in New Study on Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Nov. 18, 2024 — Scientists reveal how sleep, especially naps, boosts motor learning after TBI, offering new insights into brain activity and rehabilitation ...

New Formation of Neurons from Stem Cell Niche Disrupted After Stroke

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers studied what happens immediately after a stroke in the stem cell niche known as the subventricular zone, using a mouse model. This revealed a mechanism that results in fewer newborn ...

Chronic Pain Can Be Predicted Within Three Days of an Injury

Oct. 24, 2024 — After only one to three days of a whiplash injury, scientists can predict which patients will develop chronic pain based on the extent of cross 'talk' between two regions of the brain, and the ...

Bilingualism May Maintain Protection Against Alzheimer's

Oct. 22, 2024 — In a study, researchers use neuroimaging methods to examine brain resilience in regions of the brain linked to language and aging. They found that the hippocampus in bilinguals with Alzheimer's ...

How Do You Remember How to Ride a Bike? Thank Your Cerebellum

Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers have shown that, just like declarative memories, short-term and long-term memories for motor skills form in different regions of the brain, with the cerebellum being critical for the ...

Alzheimer's Disease May Damage the Brain in Two Phases

Oct. 15, 2024 — Alzheimer's disease may damage the brain in two distinct phases, based on new research using sophisticated brain mapping tools. According to researchers who discovered this new view, the first, early ...

Concussions Slow Brain Activity of High School Football Players

Nov. 27, 2024 — A new study of high school football players found that concussions affect an often-overlooked but important brain ...

Evidence Builds for Near Infrared Light Treatment in Traumatic Brain Injury

Oct. 11, 2024 — New research indicates that a novel method could result in a new treatment option in an area of medicine that currently has few, if any, treatment ...

Hip Osteoarthritis: Head Gets in the Way of Recovery, Study Suggests

Oct. 8, 2024 — Muscle activation in people suffering from hip osteoarthritis might be a case of 'mind over matter', new research has shown. A recent study investigated muscle function in people with hip ...

Ultra-Powered MRI Scans Show Damage to Brain's 'Control Center' Is Behind Long-Lasting COVID-19 Symptoms

Oct. 8, 2024 — Damage to the brainstem -- the brain's 'control center' -- is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study ...

Deep Brain Stimulation Instantly Improves Arm and Hand Function Post-Brain Injury

Oct. 1, 2024 — Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury or ...

Common Brain Network Detected Among Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury Could Protect Against PTSD

Sep. 24, 2024 — Researchers analyzed 193 patients from the Vietnam Head Injury Study with penetrating traumatic brain injury to determine if the location of shrapnel damage to their brains influenced risk of ...

Improving Eye Tracking to Assess Brain Disorders

Sep. 16, 2024 — Using piezoelectricity, an engineering team developed wearable sensors to examine eye movement to assess brain disorders or damage to the ...

Facemask Impacts Are Leading Source of Higher Severity Impacts in Professional American Football

Sep. 11, 2024 — Nearly one third of concussions in professional American football are due to impacts from the facemask, a part of the helmet that has remained mostly unchanged in the last decade. In a new study, ...

Delayed Feedback Enhances Learning Performance in Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury, Study Indicates

Sep. 10, 2024 — Researchers have published a novel study exploring the effects of delayed feedback on learning in individuals with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury. The goal of this study was to assess the ...

Researchers Discover New Insights Into the Neurobiological Origins of Ataxia

Sep. 5, 2024 — A study investigated the origin of ataxia in the brain of patients with stroke. A significant number of the stroke lesions in the patients were located outside the ...

Sports Concussions in Non-Athletes Not Linked to Long-Term Cognitive Effects

Sep. 4, 2024 — Sports-related concussions (SRC) may not be associated with long-term cognitive risks for non-professional athletes, a new study suggests. In fact, study participants who had experienced an SRC had ...

Flexible Tentacle Electrodes Precisely Record Brain Activity

Sep. 4, 2024 — Researchers have developed ultra-flexible brain probes that accurately record brain activity without causing tissue damage. This opens up new avenues for the treatment of a range of neurological and ...

Novel Immunotherapy Improves Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury

Sep. 4, 2024 — Researchers have designed, in mice, an approach to minimizing the damage from a spinal cord injury through the use of engineered immune cells. Mice given the treatment had improved recovery from ...

Epigenetic Changes Reprogram Astrocytes Into Brain Stem Cells

Sep. 4, 2024 — Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

Sleep Resets Neurons for New Memories the Next Day

Aug. 15, 2024 — While everyone knows that a good night's sleep restores energy, a new study finds it resets another vital function: ...

New Microscope Offers Faster, High-Resolution Brain Imaging

Aug. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new two-photon fluorescence microscope that captures high-speed images of neural activity at cellular resolution. By imaging much faster and with less harm to brain ...

Advanced MRI Scans Help Identify One in Three Concussion Patients With 'Hidden Disease'

Aug. 9, 2024 — Offering patients with concussion a type of brain scan known as diffusion tensor imaging MRI could help identify the one in three people who will experience persistent symptoms that can be life ...

New Insights Into Cellular Processes After a Stroke

Aug. 1, 2024 — Strokes lead to irreversible damage to the brain and are one of the most common causes of dependency or death. As the cellular reactions to a cerebral infarction are not yet fully understood, there ...

Brain-Heart Axis: Strokes Change Epigenetics of Immune System

July 23, 2024 — A stroke not only causes acute damage to the brain, but can also have long-term health implications for other organs -- such as the heart. Researchers have worked on the hypothesis that the high rate ...

New Technique Could Help Treat Aggressive Brain Tumors

July 17, 2024 — Burst sine wave electroporation was found to cause less damage to cells and tissue but more disruption to the blood-brain ...