Traumatic brain injuries can have lasting effects on memory, mood, and aging. Explore what causes these issues—and how ...

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Eight or More Drinks Per Week Linked to Signs of Injury in the Brain Apr. 9, 2025 — Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called ...

Trauma centers nationwide will begin to test a new approach for assessing traumatic brain injury (TBI) that is expected to lead to more accurate diagnoses and more appropriate treatment and follow-up ...

Mike’s passion for this volunteer work came with pain. “My brain injury happened when I was 18,” he says. The year was 1982. Mike was a week from starting college on a scholarship.

Loyd said the department works to conduct research and deliver education to serve people with concussions or a mild traumatic brain injury. He adds the center’s funding comes from grants that ...

result from sudden brain trauma, like a blow to the head or an object penetrating the skull. Depending on the extent of the injury, TBIs may be mild or life threatening. In the United States ...

The final pillar, modifiers, assesses how the injury occurred, such as a fall, blow or sharp object penetration. It also includes existing conditions and medications, health care access, prior ...

He could not speak. He could not control his limbs. The severe brain injury he’d suffered, doctors said, had put him in a vegetative state. He was alive, but assumed to be cognitively gone ...

Advanced tools offer improved insights into patients' condition and their potential for recovery. What's new: After more than half a century, assessment of traumatic brain injuries gets an overhaul.

As researchers specializing in brain injury biomechanics, we use both experimental (laboratory-based) and computational methods to investigate the biomechanical mechanisms of concussion and ...