traumatic brain injury

(MedPage Today) -- Cognitive impairments persist for at least a decade in children who have a traumatic brain injury at an early age, two prospective Australian studies found.

(MedPage Today) -- Individuals who've had a severe traumatic brain injury are at subsequent risk for violent behavior, an association not seen for patients with epilepsy, Swedish researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- The use of probiotics in traumatic brain injury patients may result in a decreased infection rate, particularly for ventilator-associated pneumonia, and require fewer antibiotics, according to a single-center study.

CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Soccer players who use their head to work the ball may be at risk for white matter abnormalities similar to those seen in traumatic brain injury -- but only beyond a certain threshold, researchers said here.

(MedPage Today) -- Sports-related head injuries fueled a 60% increase in emergency department visits for nonfatal traumatic brain injury during the past decade, CDC researchers have found.

(MedPage Today) -- The Simplified Motor Score works as well as the Glasgow Coma Scale for out-of-hospital assessment of traumatic brain injury severity, researchers said, and could eventually replace the commonly used but much criticized Glasgow index.

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(MedPage Today) -- Surgery successfully relieved pressure on the brain in patients with cases of severe traumatic brain injury, researchers reported, but the procedure did not improve long-term outcomes.

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Stem cells derived from a patient's own bone marrow were safely used in pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury, according to results of a Phase I clinical trial at UTHealth.

The results were published in this month's issue of Neurosurgery.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) The November issue of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Official Journal of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, has published a set of 9 articles on traumatic brain injury (TBI) that will accelerate future research in the field by establishing common language for the degree of injury, how it is measured and classified, treatment and potential outcomes.