There is still so much to learn about the brain and what happens after brain injury. Research is helping to find answers, challenge assumptions and improve our understanding of brain injury, recovery and life after brain injury.
Explore the latest findings and discoveries from the world of brain injury research.
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Patient in Vegetative State Plays Tennis in her Head
A team in Cambridge have discovered that a patient in a vegetative state can communicate through her thoughts.
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Sleeping pill credited with the miraculous awakening of comatose patients
Report of a drug that should have made people fall asleep instead roused them from a deep coma.
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Action in Glutamate
New pharmacological agents are being sought that offer neuroprotection in the immediate aftermath of brain injury
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Revolutionary machine combines MRI and PET scanning
A prototype for the world's first system capable of combining MRI and PET technology
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When thoughts become action
An assessment of voluntary behavior in non-communicative brain injured patients
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Protein found to significantly improve recovery from severe head trauma
Studies have shown that a protein can be used to greatly improve spatial learning and memory immediately after severe traumatic brain injury
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Childhood Hypopituitarism after traumatic brain injury
The hypothalamus and pituitary are essential for childhood and adolescent development and are vulnerable to injury and dysfunction following brain trauma.
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A survey of information given to head-injured patients on direct discharge
A study of the information provided to head-injured patients on discharge from emergency departments (EDs) in Scotland.
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Hypopituitarism [seminar]
Work has shown that many patients with brain damage are at high risk of (sometimes unrecognised) hypopituitarism.
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Hypopituitarism following traumatic brain injury
Several studies have shown that hypopituitarism is a common complication of head trauma.
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Should every patient with traumatic brain injury be referred to an endocrinologist?
Viewpoint article which examines the evidence for and against the routine referral of patients to an endocrinologist.
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Improving neuropsychological function after chronic brain injury with hyperbaric oxygen
A study looked into the effects of HBOT on cognitive and behavioural outcomes in children and adults experiencing the long-term effects of brain injury
