The following is a summary of “Impact of age and mean intracranial pressure on the morphology of intracranial pressure waveform and its association with mortality in traumatic brain injury,” published ...

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 ...

There are many types of head injuries that can lead to long-term disability and mortality. Age, location and severity of injury, mechanism of injury and medical comorbidities will affect the type ...

With cardiac arrest, all parts of the brain that rely on blood flow are affected by its failure. An injury caused by anoxia is called anoxic brain injury. Among the parts of the brain most vulnerable ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and epilepsy share proposed mechanisms of injury, including neuronal excitotoxicity, cascade signaling, and activation of protein biomarkers ...

Decompressive hemicraniectomy is commonly performed in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) with diffuse brain swelling or refractory raised intracranial pressure. Expansion of hemorrhagic ...

Hypoxia-ischemia induces an inflammatory response in the immature central nervous system that may be important for development of brain injury ... with the typical morphology of plasma cells ...

Purpose To evaluate changes in biceps femoris long head (BF LH) fascicle length and hamstring muscle size following 10-weeks of Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) or hip extension (HE) training. Methods ...

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The 35-year-old was checked for a concussion and passed the initial tests, so for now, it is being labeled as a head contusion. He'll be reevaluated Saturday and then they'll determine next steps ...

Understanding the developmental changes that affect neurons is a key step in exploring the assembly and maturation of neural circuits in the brain. For decades, researchers have used a number of ...