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A new study suggests that damage to a key part of the brain involved in judgment and emotional regulation could explain why ...
Tough to diagnose, TBI is even tougher to study. It presents differently across individuals, and people recover (or don't) in ...
Army research will assess the “doses” of shock waves that certain weapons create and their long-term impacts on soldiers' ...
A TBI may happen when you take a blow to the head. TBIs can cause short-term or long-term medical issues. There are treatments for TBIs, as well as ways to prevent them from happening.
Health Canada has granted approval for Abbott’s i-STAT TBI test cartridge, enabling clinicians to evaluate suspected ...
Head injuries are damage to the scalp, skull, or brain caused by trauma. When it affects the brain, they’re called a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. To most people, head injuries are considered ...
The Trump administration's budget request eliminates major federal funding for traumatic brain injury research and education, potentially undercutting efforts to address head injuries in sports.
The i-STAT TBI blood test is transforming traumatic brain injury (TBI) assessment, especially for sports-related concussions. The test, developed by Abbott alon ...
An estimated 2.8 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and one in 60 people in the United States lives with a TBI-related disability. Dealing with the long-term effects of brain ...
An officer-involved shooting was reported at a Parkway Village gas station early Monday morning, according to the Tennessee ...
Since 1974, trauma centers have relied mainly on GCS scores to assess patients based on clinical symptoms, rating TBI severity as mild (13-15 points), moderate (9-12 points), or severe (3-8 points).
Severe TBI usually results from a significant closed head injury, as in an automobile accident or most open or penetrating injuries, where there may be considerable residual deficits of brain ...