Susan the brain-injured comedian can laugh at herself
Touching story of Susan Wirtanen who suffered a brain-injury and can can still do stand-up comedy. She jokes of her 30-days spent in a coma ...
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Free Educational Session on Brain Injury in Camden County | The ...
Camden, NJ (Vocus) February 28, 2010
The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey will offer its free educational session Brain Injury Basics for Families, on Wednesday, March 17, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Cooper University Hospital, 1 Cooper Plaza.
The program, designed for family members of people who have sustained brain injuries, provides a presentation and forum for questions. People with brain injuries and professionals are also welcome. The session is facilitated by Peggy DiTommaso, MSW, who has volunteered her time to be a Brain Injury Association of New Jersey Affiliated Support Group Leader for over 20 years.
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Antidepressants could help heal brain injuries While antidepressants are often prescribed after a traumatic brain injury to help patients deal with the emotional fallout from their ordeal, new research suggests these medications could also help the brain itself heal. |
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Anti-depressants boost brain cells after injury Huang said many patients who have a traumatic brain injury also experience depression. By some estimates, half of such patients are depressed, according to a Rochester statement quoted in the journal. Doctors are not sure whether the depression is a |
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New Brain Cell Growth Restores Function Others have evidence that the new wiring that hooks up new brain cells sometimes gets tangled and may lead to seizures after a brain injury or in epilepsy. Many researchers have suspected that making new cells is good for the brain, |
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Healing hope for brain injury Blaiss is lead author of new research published in the Journal of Neuroscience this month that shows that the brain actively works to repair its vital memory and learning centre in the hippocampus after traumatic brain injury. (The name hippocampus has |
Can proper nutrition help blunt brain injury?
Bruce Bistrian, MD, PhD, a panelist and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said in an article in the Wall Street Journal that early feeding can cut disabilities and deaths after head injury by 25 to 50 percent.
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, Also suggests that people who suffer even a mild traumatic brain injury are more likely to develop an anxiety disorder and should take precautions to avoid stressful situations for at least some period of time.The motivation behind the study, which was conducted in rats, was the observed correlation of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, and PTSD, particularly in military veterans returning from service overseas, said Michael Fanselow, a UCLA professor of psychology and the senior author of the study.
The reasons for this correlation are unknown. It could be simply that the events that cause brain injury are also very frightening and that the link between TBI and PTSD could be merely incidental. Fanselow and his colleagues, however, hypothesized that the two "could be linked in a more mechanistic way."
Using procedures to separate the physical and emotional traumas, the scientists trained the rats using "fear conditioning" techniques two days after they experienced a concussive brain trauma -- ensuring the brain injury and the experience of fear occurred on different days.
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