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Brain Injury Association of Michigan Company Profile

19:36 EDT 19th June 2013 | BioPortfolio

The military has estimated that 115,000 troops have suffered traumatic brain injuries since the beginning of the current conflicts. However, top Army officials have acknowledged that those statistics are likely an underestimate of the true number of servicemen and women who have suffered one of the signature wounds of the War on Terror. The number could be closer to 360,000, with many TBI caused by improvised explosive devices.


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Concussions and head impacts may accelerate brain aging

(University of Michigan) Concussions and even lesser head impacts may speed up the brain's natural aging process by causing signaling pathways in the brain to break down more quickly than they would i...

Traumatic brain injury incidence: an interview with Professor Valery Feigin

Traumatic brain injury can be defined as an injury to the brain due to mechanical forces. Mechanical forces usually include falls, car accidents, accidental forces from another person or animal. It al...

Prior brain injury linked to re-injury later in life

(HealthDay)—Older adults with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) with loss of consciousness (LOC) have a 2.5- to almost four-fold higher risk of subsequent re-injury later in life, according...

Op-Ed: What’s Really Causing Traumatic Brain Injury (Hint: It Isn’t Sports)

Maybe you didn’t realize it, but this month—March—has been National Brain Injury Awareness Month. During these 31 days, an estimated 140,000 people in the U.S. will have sustained some degree of...

TBI Conference Set for March 6-7

MINNEAPOLIS -- Experts in the field of traumatic brain injury will meet on March 6-7, 2013 in Washington, DC for the 3rd Annual Traumatic Brain Injury Conference, hosted by Arrowhead Publishers. T...

Michigan Personal Injury Lawyers to Give Tigers Tickets to Spinal Cord Injury & Brain Injury Accident Victims

Southfield, MI, March 15, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The Michigan personal injury lawyers at the law firm of Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C. are proud to announce their 2nd annual Buckfire & Buckfire Detroi...

Retinal hemorrhage pattern can predict inflicted brain injury

(HealthDay)—In children under the age of 3, a high dot-blot count for retinal hemorrhages (RHs) is a strong predictor of inflicted traumatic brain injury (ITBI) rather than accidental traumatic brai...

Yakima Traumatic Injury Lawyer Mariano Morales Voices Support for Brain Injury Awareness Month

Yakima, Wash. (PRWEB) March 21, 2013 The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) has designated March 2013 as Brain Injury Awareness Month, an important step in raising the profile of this serio...

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Sex and steroid hormones in early brain injury.

Brain injury during development can have severe, long-term consequences. Using an array of animal models, we have an understanding of the etiology of perinatal brain injury. However, we have only rece...

Experimental traumatic brain injury.

ABSTRACT: Traumatic brain injury, a leading cause of death and disability, is a result of an outside force causing mechanical disruption of brain tissue and delayed pathogenic events which collectivel...

Use of hypothermia for traumatic brain injury: point of view.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the major causes of disability in modern society. The World Health Organization has predicted that, by 2020, traffic accidents will represent the greatest burden...

Synthesis and characterization of novel indole derivatives reveal improved therapeutic agents for treatment of ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury.

To develop more potent therapeutic agents with therapeutic efficacy for ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, we linked an antiinflammatory moiety (1,3-dioxane derivative) to the key pharmacophoric moiet...

Prevalence of traumatic brain injury in incarcerated groups compared to the general population: A meta-analysis.

Traumatic brain injury can cause numerous behavioral abnormalities including aggression, violence, impulsivity, and apathy, factors that can be associated with criminal behavior and incarceration. To...

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Monitoring Brain Activity in Human Brain Injury

The outcome of brain injury (physical or stroke) may be related to a brain electrical phenomenon known as Cortical Spreading Depression (CSD). This is a brief cessation of function in a l...

Brain Injury Inpatient Educational Intervention for Families and Caregivers

The Brain Injury Inpatient Guide for Families and Caregivers (BIIG-FACS) is a comprehensive intervention to meet the needs of family members and significant others of patients who are unde...

Awareness of Deficit After Combat-related Brain Injury

This study will use MRI imaging, cognitive testing and outcome questionnaires to determine how the brain recovers and reorganizes after an injury.

Clinical Proteomic Research for the Brain

The purpose of this research is to study the proteomic profile of individuals with ischemic brain injury. By comparing acute ischemic injury to other neurological diseases or systemic vas...

Outcome Predictors in Acute Brain Injury

This study will attempt to evaluate clinical, laboratory and radiographic parameters together to assess heir values in outcome prediction from brain injury. Patients will be followed up fo...

Companies [ 629 Associated Companies listed on BioPortfolio]

Brain Injury Association of America

Founded in 1980, the mission of the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) is to be the voice of brain injury. BIAA and its nationwide network of state affiliates, chapters and support groups are...

BrainScope Company, Inc

BrainScope Company, Inc is a privately held medical neurotechnology company developing a new generation of portable, simple-to-use, non-invasive instruments to rapidly, and objectively assess brain fu...

Brain Injury Association of Michigan

The military has estimated that 115,000 troops have suffered traumatic brain injuries since the beginning of the current conflicts. However, top Army officials have acknowledged that those statistics...

Brain Injury Research Institute

The Brain Injury Research Institute is a center for the study of traumatic brain injuries and prevention, which is affiliated with the Blanchette Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia Un...

Center for BrainHealth

The Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas is a research institute dedicated to developing and testing treatments to improve brain health. The Center was created to search for way...

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