Butler High School student athlete defies the odds after overcoming traumatic brain injury

Eli Ferrell, an 18-year-old student-athlete from Butler, Missouri, has made a remarkable comeback after suffering a traumatic brain injury and broken bones in a car crash last August, and has now hit ...
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Why Do Head Injuries Bleed so Much?

Bleeding occurs when trauma damages a blood vessel. When that trauma involves your head—whether the scalp, skull, or brain—it’s considered a head injury. These head injuries range in severity from a ...
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What You Need to Know About Anoxic Brain Injury

Anoxic brain injury, also called anoxic encephalopathy or hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, is a life threatening condition resulting from a complete lack of oxygen to the brain. Anoxic brain injury (ABI ...

Predictive model identifies complications in the first 2 days following mild or moderate traumatic brain injury

A study led by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Lleida (IRBLleida), the University of Lleida (UdL) ...
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Why a mild brain injury can trigger Alzheimer’s

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is revealing why traumatic brain injury increases the chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease – and the discovery is pointing to a ...
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Newly discovered link between traumatic brain injury in children and epigenetic changes could help personalize treatment for recovering kids

Lacey W. Heinsberg receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Amery Treble-Barna receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. A newly discovered biological signal in the ...
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New score predicts complications after mild traumatic brain injury

A study led by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Lleida (IRBLleida), the University of Lleida (UdL), the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Arnau de Vilanova ...