Category Archives: Brain Injury Treatment

Clowney's absence, defensive issues overshadow USC win over Kentucky Clowney's absence, defensive issues overshadow USC win over Kentucky Updated: Sunday, October 6 2013 11:19 AM EDT2013-10-06 15:19:59 GMT A Wedgefield couple has been charged with child abuse and failing to seek medical care after their 6-month-old daughter suffered a permanent brain injury last month, the Sumter County Sheriff's Office announced. Christopher McFadden Jr., 20, and Brittany Nicole Shapely, 18, were jailed Friday after an arrest warrant alleges they deliberately avoided medical treatment for the girl after being aware that the child was seriously injured, which caused a permanent brain injury, Sumter County Sheriff's Sgt. Tripp Mays said. The 6 month old was taken to the hospital Sept. 5 and a department of social services employee contacted authorities after hospital staff reported the child had cracked or broken ribs and the child's brain was swollen, according to the incident report. "While the cause of the injuries remains under investigation, staff at both hospitals said the injuries are consistent with suffocation and classified them as non-accidental,'" the incident report states. McFadden and Shapley are both in the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center on $150,000 bond. Copyright 2013 WIS. All rights reserved. Read the … Continue reading →

CLEVELAND If you went down to Voinovich Park on Aug. 25 for the FOX 8 FOX Trot or were a part of it in any way, you made a big difference in the lives of patients and families dealing with brain injuries. On Friday, we learned just how big of an impact. During Fox 8 News in the Morning, Fox 8s own Stefani Schaefer presented a check for $33,000 to The MetroHealth Foundations Brain Injury Program. It will be used to buy new equipment and enhance technology used on the unit, a place where miracles are said to happen. We have to reset broken lives again, said Dr. James Begley, who accepted the check. Schaefer has seen some of those miracles with her own eyes. Her husband, Roger, received extensive treatment at Metro after he took a fall off scaffolding at a construction site in April 2012. Click here for more updates on Roger The final numbers on the FOX Trot attendance were also released Friday. A total of 2,645 people participated, with 1,182 walkers and 1,463 running the 5K. See original here: FOX Trot Raises $33,000 for Brain Injury Program … Continue reading →

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By Ralph J. Greenspan 4 p.m.Oct. 3, 2013 While it is no mystery to any of us why we need a brain, it remains a major mystery how the brain does what it does. As a result, when illness or injury disturbs the brains normal activities, we are hard pressed to treat the problem effectively. Those who have been affected either personally or through family and friends by conditions such as traumatic brain injury, autism, schizophrenia, depression, stroke or Alzheimers disease know all too well the tragedy and feeling of helplessness that comes with running up against the limitations of current treatment options. The human cost of these afflictions is staggering, and the economic cost enormous. A new national effort, the BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), and the center launched by UC San Diego in response, the Center for Brain Activity Mapping (CBAM), are aimed at making it possible to overcome technical barriers so that we can know more about how the brain works and thus how to treat its malfunctions. Why is this more feasible now than in the past? Thanks to research advances in neuroscience, physics, chemistry and engineering, many of which have come from … Continue reading →

Vienna, VA (PRWEB) October 02, 2013 The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) announced today that Coleen M. Atkins, Ph.D., has been selected as the winner of the 2013 BIAA Young Investigator Award. The award is presented based on originality of research, promise for making significant contributions to the field of brain injury research, publication and meeting-presentation performance, and conducting research independent of the candidates mentors. Dr. Atkins is currently an Assistant Professor at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where she is working with Dr. Dalton Dietrich studying traumatic brain injury. She received her doctorate in Neuroscience in 1999 under the training of Dr. David Sweatt at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, studying the molecular mechanisms of learning and memory. In her nomination for the award, it was noted that Dr. Atkins has established a cohesive area of independent research, typified by recent senior author papers in the Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroscience in 2013 and two senior author Journal of Neurochemistry papers in 2012. It was also noted that her work is focused on therapy development targeting hippocampal signaling pathways (phosphodiesterase, … Continue reading →

Featured Article Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Parkinson's Disease Article Date: 03 Oct 2013 - 0:00 PDT Current ratings for: Scientists move closer to 'grow-your-own' brain cell cultures 4 (2 votes) Scientists from the University of Western Ontario and the Lawson Health Research Institute have successfully grown large numbers of patients' own brain cells following a small biopsy. And not only are these cells "healthy," but also they demonstrate a number of powerful attributes to protect and preserve the brain from future injury, toxins and disease. Scientists from the Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Oncology and Otolaryngology at the University of Western Ontario hope that ultimately these cells can be cultivated in a laboratory to yield specific cell types needed for a particular treatment. Dr. Matthew O. Hebb, one of the researchers on the study, explained: "It is our hope that the results of this study provide a footing for further advancement of personalized, cell-based treatments for currently incurable and devastating neurological disorders." These patient-specific cells may also be able to cross the "blood-brain barrier" by expressing specific therapeutic agents that are released directly into the brain. The "blood-brain barrier" restricts the passage of substances from the … Continue reading →

CAMP LEJEUNEAn $11 million facility for treating traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress opened on Camp Lejeune Wednesday, and its been a long-awaited moment for Marines and sailors there. The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund funded the project, and they cut the ribbon on the satellite center at Lejeune. They are truly forging a path forward, in comprehensive and holistic care and research to benefit our service members [and] benefit their families, Brigadier Gen. Robert Castellvi, commanding general of all Marine Corps installations on the East Coast, said. And not just for now, but for the generations to come. The center will treat more than 1,000 service members like Lance Cpl. Kyle Jastren, who suffered a TBI last December. It destroyed my life, Jastren said. You know, divorce, work issues, problems with being able to do things that I love to do. You know, go out and go shooting, go out and go hiking, go mountain biking, go running with my dog. Its stories like Jastrens that made Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund chairman Arnold Fischer want to build the facilityand eight others like itin the first place. You need this at every major base, Fischer said. So that when [service members] … Continue reading →

FARGO New details have emerged about the GEM car accident two months ago that left Davies High School senior Alexis (Lexi) Bolstad with a critical brain injury. A police report filed in connection with the incident paints a detailed picture of the night Bolstad fell from the GEM car an electric vehicle similar to a golf cart. Four teens, including Bolstad, were in the vehicle headed south on Veterans Boulevard around 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 4, according to the report. Witnesses told police Bolstad was hanging off the side of the GEM car and waving her arm and yelling as the car entered the roundabout to travel on 44th Street. She lost her footing, fell from the vehicle onto her back and struck her head on the pavement. Bolstad was transported to Essentia Health in Fargo for treatment, where she stayed in the intensive care unit for a month. Bolstad initially underwent surgery to have parts of her brain removed. She was heavily sedated and could not breathe or eat on her own. In early September, she was moved to Craig Hospital in Denver, which specializes in spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation. The Bolstad family has documented her improvement … Continue reading →

White Plains, NY (PRWEB) October 02, 2013 Burke Rehabilitation Hospital has announced that Barry Jordan, M.D., MPH, assistant medical director, will be honored with the 2013 Champion of Hope Award by the Brain Injury Association of New York State (BIANYS) at the organizations annual gala to be held on Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Slate Restaurant (54 West 21st Street) in New York City. Dr. Jordan is a renowned neurologist who has been with Burke since 1999, first as an attending neurologist and then director of Burkes inpatient Brain Injury program and medical director of the Memory Evaluation and Treatment program. Earlier this year, Dr. Jordan was promoted to assistant medical director while continuing to serve as director of the Brain Injury program. For more than a decade Dr. Jordan has been an invaluable member of the Burke Rehabilitation team, says Mary Beth Walsh, M.D., Burkes CEO and executive medical director. He has expanded our brain injury services, helped improve patient outcomes and had a positive impact on patients lives. Additionally, his work with the Brain Injury Association of New York State as an advocate for patients with brain injuries has been influential and he is very deserving of … Continue reading →

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Oct. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Luoxis Diagnostics (a subsidiary of Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: AMPE), today announced results from a recently completed clinical study of patients with isolated traumatic brain injury (iTBI). This study demonstrated statistically significant correlations between oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) and the severity of injury among iTBI patients. ORP is measured using the company's proprietary RedoxSYS diagnostic system, a point-of-care diagnostic system enabling rapid analysis of multiple markers of oxidative stress. (Logo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120516/MM09116LOGO) Increases in plasma static oxidation-reduction potential (spot measurement, sORP) levels were consistently shown to closely correlate with increases in iTBI severity as measured by the Abbreviated Injury Score (p=0.02). This prospective observational cohort study of 645 iTBI patients was conducted at two level-one trauma centers in the US over five years, and the analysis was completed in September of 2013. This is the second clinical study demonstrating the correlation between injury severity in iTBI and oxidation-reduction potential [Rael LT, Bar-Or R, Mains CW, Slone DS, Levy AS, Bar-Or D. Plasma oxidation-reduction potential and protein oxidation in traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma 2009;26:1203-1211]. Importantly, this is the first study to show that negative changes in sORP and cORP (a novel measure of patient antioxidant … Continue reading →