The Center on Brain Injury Research & Training conducts research and training to improve the lives of children and adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Our research focuses on developing interventions to improve outcomes related to education, employability, and quality of life.
Military men and women now are returning with brain injuries that would have been fatal in earlier times. Here's how the nation's warriors and the medical teams that treat them are fighting these unseen battles.
Read more: http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/health/20816.html
The U.S. military is conducting tests to see if pressurized chambers can treat traumatic brain injury, a key injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As football teams take to fields across the nation, Purdue University researchers continue work to uncover how repeated head impacts affect high school athletes.
Read more: http://www.valpolife.com/index.php/sports/high-schools/13612
New treatments, including retraining the brain, could offer hope to the millions who suffer from tinnitus, a constant ringing or buzzing in the ears.
Read more: http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/train-brain-not-ears-to-stop-the-ringing/
Dr. Joke Bradt of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa., carried out a Cochrane Systematic Review of music in recovery from brain injury.
A review of the evidence to date suggests that music therapy can help patients recover their movements after experiencing brain damage.
Read more: http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/music-therapy-may-aid-brain-damaged-patients/
Arizona is leading the next phase of concussion education and management. In August, the Arizona Interscholastic Association — following the April passage of a state law that requires schools to provide training about the dangers of traumatic brain injuries — introduced a mandatory program in which all high school sports participants must take a 50-minute multimedia online course and pass a formal test before they put on a uniform.
Read more: http://athleticbusiness.com/articles/article.aspx?articleid=3794&zoneid=33
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic are testing the blood of local college football players for a protein that could indicate a concussion.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Cleveland-Clinic-studying-head-injury-protein-2175776.php
Ann Glang, PhD, TRI Senior Fellow and Research Professor, was the recipient of the 2011 North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS) Research Award. Each year NABIS recognizes a researcher in the field of brain injury who has made substantial and continuing contributions that improve the lives of individuals with traumatic brain injury. In announcing the award, Dr. Harvey Jacobs, 2011 NABIS Program Chair, noted that Ann and her CBIRT colleagues "have not only discovered new approaches and techniques to improve the lives of others, but have also worked to integrate these findings into people's lives through comprehensive training and dissemination efforts".
The awards ceremony took place on Thursday, September 15, 2011 during the opening day of the conference which was held in New Orleans. The principal mission of NABIS is to move brain injury science into practice. NABIS supports the premise that advances in science and practice, based on the application of scientific evidence, will provide the best outcomes for those with brain injuries and the community as a whole.
The thinking on brain trauma clearly is changing, not only in football but all youth sports. Increasingly, ankle-biter leagues are hiring athletic trainers, high school policies mandate medical clearance before a head-injured player can return to the field, and professional leagues are adopting tougher standards for helmets and the care of the heads inside them.
Still, it's not entirely clear how comprehensive the new policies are, or just which athletes most need protection.
Read more: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/medical%3A-concussion-research-spurs-changes-in-sports
Mayo Clinic is piloting a telemedicine program that aims at filling gaps in concussion care for patients in rural Arizona.
Read more: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/mayo-clinic-pilots-teleconcussion-program
