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Baylor Research-Team erfasst die Bilder der ersten post-Gehirnerschütterung Schwellung des Gehirns.

In den meisten Fällen, Traditional MRI scans-von Menschen, die Erhaltung einer Gehirnerschütterung aussehen wie normal gesunde Gehirn - etwas, das der Rätsel Ärzteschaft.

Nun wird eine neue Studie, Co-Author von einem Brigham Young University Professor, der zeigt, wo es möglicherweise ein Problem. Mit einer anderen Methode für die Analyse von-MRI scans, die von Forscher aufgenommenen Bildern zeigt deutlich, Schwellung in der Vernetzung Seiten der beiden des Gehirns. Erkenntnis Die, die mit Hirnforscher spezifischen Richtung, in ihren Bemühungen zu verstehen, was geschieht mit den schätzungsweise 1.4 Millionen Menschen in den Vereinigten Staaten jedes Jahr, die Erhaltung einer Hirnverletzung.

Die Studie, die in der März 18-Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Neurology, Co-Author ist von BYU-Psychology Professor Erin Bigler und Kollegen am Baylor College of Medicine. Der federführende Author, Professor Elisabeth Baylor Wilde, ist ein ehemaliger Student, BYU der arbeitete in Bigler’s Labor.

“Die meisten Erschütterungen relativ gutartige sind und die meisten Menschen erholen - und schnell wiederherstellen - aber nicht alle tun", sagte Bigler. “In diesem Fall haben wir jetzt eine Technologie, mitzuteilen uns, dass nicht etwas stimmt in diesem Teil des Gehirns zumindest in den Tagen nach einer ersten Kopfverletzung. Wir haben jetzt zu müssen Langzeit-Studien sehen whether dies bezieht sich auf einen dauerhaften Probleme. ”

Jüngste Studien verknüpft mehrere Erschütterungen haben zu höheren Risiko und anderen von Gedächtnisverlust Bedingungen, wie zum Beispiel Depressionen. Einige der führenden Ursachen Erschütterungen sind für die Automobil-und Unfällen Sportverletzungen, so dass sie ein großes Problem für Jugendliche. Nach der Angaben Centers for Disease Control, die beiden am stärksten-Risiko Altersgruppen sind Children from 0 to 4 Jahren und Jugendliche zwischen 15 und 19 Jahre alt.

Schlag ist auch die in der Nummer eins neurologischen Schädigung Soldaten, die im Irak und in Afghanistan.

In Wilde’s Bigler und die Studie analysierten Forscher Scans von Jugendlichen 10, die ein nachhaltiges Gehirnerschütterung hatte zwischen einem und sechs Tage vor. Eine Kontrollgruppe von 10 unverletzte Jugendliche Alter von und ähnliche Geschlecht Verteilung wurde auch analysiert werden.

Wie erwartet, traditional MRT-Bildgebung nicht erkennen, die Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Gruppen. Die Forscher haben dann eine zweite Methode namens “diffusion tensor imaging, or DTI, mit der die Richtung der Wasserfluss Faser Traktate durch die, die sich mit den beiden Hälften des Gehirns, einer Region namens Corpus callosum.

Diese Technik gezeigt, wie Unterschiede in der Corpus callosum erschien für die Geschädigten-Gruppe verglichen mit der Kontrollgruppe unbeschädigt. Die Forscher glauben, dass diese Ergebnisse sind ein für die Beweis Verletzung of Corpus callosum, was darauf hindeutet, dass die Erschütterungen verursacht hatten Ödem oder diese Schwellung in Traktaten Faser, Störung ihres normalen die Fähigkeit zur Übertragung von Nachrichten in das Gehirn.

Die Forscher befassten sich mit der Schwere Gehirnerschütterung Symptoms wie anhaltende Kopfschmerzen, Probleme bei der Konzentration oder Erinnern Dinge, und das Gefühl traurig, müde oder gereizt. Analysis ergab Deren, dass die Patienten mit den schlimmsten Symptoms zeigten erheblichen die Unterschiede in den Bildern.

“Die MRT-Befunde in Bezug auf die sie Symptoms erlebt, bringt die uns einen wichtigen Schritt weiter, um zu verstehen, wie Erschütterungen stören normal Gehirnfunktion und wie die Verletzung of Corpus callosum teilnehmen können", sagte Bigler.

In einer Studie früheren fanden die Wissenschaftler heraus, ähnliche Belege für die Schädigung Corpus callosum der durch die Anwendung der Technik zu Scans von Kindern, die mehr nachhaltig hatte ernste Hirn-Trauma.

Um zu beschreiben, was im Gehirn passiert, wenn ist der Chef beeindruckt, Bigler hält seine beiden Fäuste zusammen, um die beiden Hälften des Gehirns, verbunden sind die in der Mitte durch das Corpus callosum.

“Ein Schlag auf den Kopf verursacht betont Stelle, dass die Bewegungen Belastungen und für die Glasfaser-Trakt zwischen den beiden Hälften des Gehirns, die das Corpus callosum, stören die physische funktionale Verbindungen und zwischen den zwei Hälften", sagte Bigler.

Bigler planen und seine Mitarbeiter eine Reihe von Follow-up-Studien, wie man, wie das Gehirn erholt, wenn eine dieser Gehirnerschütterung Ursachen nachweisbaren Unterschiede in der Corpus callosum. Sie planen darüber hinaus Blick auf den Hirnregionen um viele andere zu sehen whether Erschütterungen Auswirkungen auf andere Bereiche, in Ergänzung zu den Corpus callosum.

Who OCTOR star David Tennant, the face of a campaign of greeting card for the money to a charity of Colchester.

The famous actor has 1000 tickets to the increase in credits Headway Essex, supports cranial trauma of man, their families and caregivers.

The “Time Lord” has become the patron of the Headway Essex umschränken after a search at headquarters for its representation of a man with lesions in the brain of the BBC Drama Recovery.

He said: “I am absolutely delighted Headway can help raise the profile of brain damage.

“During my research in the role of the console recovery, I spent time Headway Essex, where I observed some in the group, as well as talk with some of its members.

“It was really humiliating. He was also a great deal of hope, humour and positivity, sometimes mixed with anger and sadness.”

“It was a very powerful experience to see first-hand the effects of brain injuries to humans can have.

“It made me realize that very lucky, I am just brings freshness and sense of the term” but for the grace of God, I will ‘. ”

A personalized message can also be used in black and white maps as a minimum at a cost of £ 20

If interest in the maps should be compatible with Headway on 01206 547616 or fill in an application form.

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) - Governor Tim Kaine meeting of the council was Loudoun County, especially in transportation.

Instead, it was marked by the environment and human health.

At least four people interviewed on Kaine its support to burn the coal in Wise County. Says critic Dominion Virginia Power attachment deteriorating environmental pollution and global alert difficult. Kaine responded that the facility is cleaner than coal-fired generation.

Kaine has been no emotional voice and shortly brain of a teenager injured on the question why the state does not need to do more for people with such injuries. Werner’s 2002 Taylor, the mother speaks, because the violation of the teen left is not able to speak.

Kaine said, the issue of the increasing problem of its list of priorities for the final year of its mandate.

A breakthrough in the company’s image and the treatment of persons with brain injury in May traceability are right again, at a given moment Paola.

It was exactly one year ago, as Jeanne Woolsey, whose son has a brain injury survivors and Roxanne Bollin, one of the survivors, who, together. The two decided that there was not enough support for the skull, the brain of the survivors and their families, and it was probably not enough medical aid offered by the state.

Their solution was found HEADS UP, a support group, has proved much more in the year of its existence.

During the past year, the group has raised more than $ 20000 in the first On Your Mark-Benefiz Fund run / walk awareness of brain injuries and the founding members have not slowed, da.

With the help of these Rep. Vickrey and Sen. Pat Apple, both Louisburg, HEADS UP recently gained the attention of the Resource Center for Independent Living, which will help establish a training program certified for people at home, helping people with brain injuries. Two of the 15 people who are trained to Paola.

Word, the group’s support is spread quickly, as the faces of Spring Hill, and even Osawatomie Belton, Lu, results showed last week to celebrate a HEADS UP’s birthday.

Any person, the story was different, but all have had to fight or someone who has experienced problems with a skull, the brain and all the comforts found in any other presence.

Brain prolonged can cause injury, life changing side effects, which are often hidden from view with the naked eye. It is easy to avoid missing or intentionally. Heads Up is a big step in the direction changed.

Awareness is the first step towards change, and volunteers in the HEADS UP-group took up the challenge. You already have a date for this year’s event On Your Mark, Sept. 20

I encourage everybody who has been issued by a skull-brain, or someone who knows Heads Up to a meeting held on the last Thursday of each month in the basement of the Catholic church St. Trinity in Paola.

Fellowship can be a powerful tool for healing.

ASHINGTON, DC - US Army Specialist Matthew McCool, who is also a blogger of the war, is now at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC to resume Tuesday morning, he suffered injuries to Iraq. He took the time to talk to ABC23 on what happened, it was the day with an IED.

McCool said that besides reducing shrapnel from his face and arms, it is also suffering from a fracture to suffer, to the front part of his skull and a leakage of blood in his brain.

He said it is in the physical therapy and vocational training everyday life, but should be used at the hospital in Palo Alto to deal with what he said, doctors told him, is a traumatic brain Injuries.

McCool doctors told him that this could be the plague, the longest to heal.

If all goes well, he left Walter Reed Medical Center in the next week. “She said, physical healing is the fastest,” said McCool.

McCool said he remembers everything. “The explosion on the left side of the truck. I was in the driver’s seat so far. I was in the truck,” he said.

He said that the explosion climbed steeply by delivery trucks shrapnel zerfleischte of certain parts of his body, which constitutes a breach of his skull before, and the cutting and burning his face.

McCool said his helmet was completely destroyed. “My face felt like it was on fire. I could not see anything. And my hearing was much at the moment. Much more than I was bleeding … Thus, I could not see, and I could not hear. ”

A doctor shot him in the truck after the explosion and bandagiert, he said. McCool said he remembers something he has in the helicopter landed, and then he remembers, inside and outside the consciousness.

McCool was blogging about the war in Iraq, on a profile of the Tehachapi News.

Iraq may have many defects at the moment, but it is unfortunately not a very good place to suffer a head injury. The theatre of the hospital in Balad Air Base, 30 km north of Baghdad, is “opened the door to a costly raging drive by the aggressive medical system in the world", Michael Mason Paul wrote in the “Head Cases “, its episodic Tour of brain injuries and strange, often accompanied.

Balad is a big detour M. Mason spends much of his time in the United States, the appreciation of the brain injured patients, with a view to possible inclusion in the neurological rehabilitation unit at the hospital in Brookhaven in Tulsa, Okla.., Where he works. It gives him the opportunity to enter the skull, the brain of the capital of the world “, and witness of medical advances in the treatment of head injuries.

“One hundred years ago, a horse-Kick in the head if you had,” he writes. “In Iraq, you can use a golf ball-size rocket from the skull and survival.” In the United States, brain injury patients, a 71% chance of living a month after entering the emergency services. Balad is 98 percent.

Mr. Mason do not see much of the rocket-to-the-head case in practice. It focuses primarily with patients to combat the long-term effects of brain injuries, problems begin once the brain has been made, and the skull together again. Loss of memory, uncontrollable emotions, olfactory hallucinations - the list of violations for posts alarming symptoms continues.

One of the themes, Mr. Mason’s believes it is dead. Another, which seemed normal, Julie Meyer, lives in an eternal present, the catastrophic consequences of a car crash took the lives of her daughter, whom she no longer remembered.

“When he tries to read the words disappear from the front of the paragraph, watches, if a movie, each scene is the opening of the scene,” writes Mr. Mason.

Although the procedural law of memory is in order - they may be mechanical, like the kitchen or a phone call - Ms. Meyer is expected to return to her husband every time he visits the hospital. As the main role in the film “Memento,” she says, until their licence by the day and studies, the intensity of wild, mime and behaviour to separate friends from abroad. You Fakes its way through life.

As a writer, Mr. Mason operations from a position midway between Oliver Sacks and Oprah Winfrey. It goes in the light of science, to present case studies in its first line of human dramas. We are responding to love, again hometowns, you will live down to the smallest details of the horrific accident damage. Until his portrait of a patient Cherokee called Pony Soldier, “says Mason to a hut above initiation.

This method humanizes patients, but there is little time neuroscience. Mr. Mason, a kind of course, the case workers, sometimes sentimental and turns rarely resist the impulse to the party.

“With his blond hair and pink cheeks, Melissa looks like the person you call a good message or a hard day,” he writes to a question. There are a large number of affected smiley face in this manner.

The general forecast for virtually all human beings with Mr. Mason is grim: a long, slow drag to recover only a fraction of the capacity lost. Two cases, but I hope they show how shaking. The rosy-cheeked Melissa Felteau, Hard-Charges Public Relations Executive, sinking into despair when they still on the job market after a head injury and no longer knows what key opens the door to their office. They can not remember the name. She cried steals or skin driving without notice. A yoga classes to teach “vigilance” - attention to everyday tasks and its immediate environment - improves concentration, reduces their mood and their help, their restrictions to accept it.

Is worse, the case of Asya Schween, a 12-year-old Dagestan from the former Soviet Union, whose parents had a house schustern therapy regime after a bicycle accident, the skull, brain trauma inflicted. Doctors in Moscow, after obtaining something curious diagnosis of Neurasthenie - a vague description is no longer recognized in the United States or the United Kingdom - recommended Memory game against amnesia, techniques relaxation, anger and outbreaks of disease neuro-optometric to improving the exercise Vision.

A year later, the woman won best prices Schween Dagestan in the national mathematics Olympiads. After deserve a PhD in bioinformatics at the University of Southern California, she found work as a researcher at a local hospital for children. All this is not perfect.

“She is the person most difficult I have ever known,” says his friend Mr. Russian Mason. But what counts as a Happyend the author of a gallery of portraits bleak.

A sustainable theme through the book: the ill-treatment of patients with paralyzing Behavioral problems in connection with head injuries. Lack of hospitalization involved, the bureaucracy and insurance special thwart Mr. Mason and his subjects at every turn. Many families, supported by the system, are neglected, as the mastermind of their parents, wounded languishing in psychiatric powerful sedatives. And hopelessly confused.

Injuries to the head, Mr. Mason is often in the medical record as “an insult to the brain.” It is an apt expression. But insults will not cease at the end of hospitalization.

NHS Highland is marking the beginning of the Brain Injury Awareness Week, through the publication of an online guide for patients with the condition.

Brain book was written by our consultant Dr. Louise Clinical Neuropsychologist Blackmore to help patients, their families and friends to understand how the skull, brain trauma affected people.

Mr. Blackmore said: “An analysis can see the hidden damage, brain, the victim of an accident, a fall or injury that has caused, but outside of man are often not otherwise watch, it can be difficult for a patient or his loves understand why their behavior and abilities have changed - sometimes radically. Another problem lies in the fact that the injury of the brain can often affect memory. I can say, a quantity in a consultation, but over time a patient has forgotten at home have what I told them. Brain book can be seen as a souvenir. It helps people understand how they have changed and the means to find, for some of the difficulties that have “.

A brain injury can be the physical effects and the effects of thinking, memory and behavior. Speed thought may be slower, it may also affect the concentration and people live rather to depression, anxiety, mood changes and short temper.

Mr. Blackmore said: “Some of my patients such a change, she speaks of a person before being a person and injuries. It can also have an effect they leave their jobs. They may also be problems with industrial relations. You can at the end of mourning for the person who uses them. My goal, when I work with my patients, they know who they are, and now, how much. There may be a Tower emotional roller coaster with some very low, but gradually over time, people begin to feel better. I hope that I can often hit the “fast forward” new patients and show that they are feel better in the future. ”

Brain book can help people understand what happened, and offers some strategies as to manage. It can be downloaded by the NHS Highland website using the link below or looking for Brain Book.

ASHBURN, Va. - Questions about a proposed power plant coal in the opposite corner of Virginia Gov. Timothy M. verbissen Kaine in Loudoun County meeting of the council Monday.

But it was the touching story of a disabled 16-year-old boys with a skull, brain, left-Kaine, emotional, and the limited time that the votes when he has more than 200 people.

At least four people interviewed on Kaine its support to burn the coal in Wise County. The State Corporation Commission authorises the plant Monday.

Critics, including some from environmental groups, argued that the Dominion Virginia Power-placement, it would only involve aggravate pollution of the environment in Virginia and global warming.

Kaine responded that the plant is cleaner than coal-fired, coal Virginia’s reserves the right to review in order to meet the growing demand for energy, and the Dominion coking plant converts to a fascinating natural gas after the County Wise installation is complete.

How come Kaine, holds the hand of demonstrators marked against the installation posters welcomed the Loudoun County outside of a school environment.

Kaine had scheduled meeting of the council to discuss, including transportation and a special legislative procedure, he intends to session in the spring of this year to address the demand for regional transport funding for the North of Virginia and Hampton Roads national, and add revenue for the maintenance of the roadway.

None of the questions he received, but with transportation. The question who are campaigning for Kaine left, the words came from Taylor Werner. Werner spoke of the mother of his son, from the left are not in a position to talk about a violation of the brain he suffered during the year 2002, while the teenagers was sitting next to him in a wheelchair. He was a footballer Star, and a center of the middle school on a football World Cup against a team of bleeding is unable to walk.

The report written by Taylor himself and the question that is on the question of why Kaine Virginia had invested so little to help victims of violations of the brain.

Kaine has begun to respond, then suddenly stopped for a few moments. When it again, his voice was much softer.

“We tend to fund institutions of Virginia, but we do not so well, the financing of individuals,” Kaine told the crowd.

Kaine said he favoured a way to fund more supply services rather than institutional care for persons brain injury. Looking directly with Werner, he recounted that his comments and his question was only reinforce the problem in recent years on its list of priorities.

“We still have a long way to go,” said Kaine.

One reason was Kaine with emotion, said he was the son of an injury suffered by a member of his cabinet in Iraq. Patrick Hanley, the son of the Secretary General of the Commonwealth Katherine Hanley, was wounded Saturday night by an improvised explosive device, only a few days before he should return to his first tour of duty. He lost an arm and suffered severe head injuries. Two others were killed with him.

Skull Brain Support Group, HOPES, revealed a lack of adequate housing options say, patients are often in the acute phase of hospital beds for more than necessary before it is aged care facilities or groups set aside.

HOPES President, Sue Hodgson, said this type of housing is not for the skull, the brain of patients.

“The apartments are only to promote, at the age of fragile meaning that young people in this House do not have access to the nature of the equipment, the type of rehabilitation leisure activities that they should have, “said Hodgson.

Ms. Hodgson calls on the Government of the State of the availability of credit for housing cooperatives especially for people with brain injury.

“It is much more flexible with regard to the options of your life, live, so that in your own space, you can also define a common approach in the common area of the house, it is much easier of lifestyle, but we believe not more expensive “, says she.

The support group is launching a campaign to ensure funding of a centre for cooperation for the life of the skull, the brain of patients today.

Dr Margaret Elaine Ayers, Psychoneurophysiologist, was one of three pioneers in the field of neurofeedback. She was in full-time training in the office of Beverly Hills, and has been, since 1975, is known internationally for her work with the skull and brain, patients in a coma, as in many other clinical applications of neurofeedback.

Research on the brain in progress showed that neurofeedback can be an effective complement of health care following the treatment of brain diseases: opened or closed head injury, coma, stroke, epilepsy, migraine and pain head cluster, anoxia (lack of oxygen), learning disabilities, attention deficit - The lack of clinical depression and dyslexia.

Dr Ayers neurofeedback have certainly had more meetings than any other person in the field. She was responsible for the development of digital literacy in real time EEG neurofeedback equipment, sampling at a single rate of the definition of raw materials and EEG signals filtered. Margaret was a champion clinicians, unmatched in their ability to interpret raw EEG patterns.

Elaine Margaret Ayers, who was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the oldest of four children born to Ernest and Gladys Ayers. Your brothers and sisters Anne and Don contain Ken. His mother was a teacher. His father was a lawyer, had a profound impact on the Margaret by creating an awareness of man to help others.

At a very young age, Margaret was known as a gifted child and temperamentvollen. Read the youth was at the age of two and a half documented by testing at Columbia University. She had a strange feeling of nature, to learn to integrate into the nature of his comrades Native American gaming in Estanca, New Mexico. She had the ability to listen again and again to information. It was a possibility to maintain for the rest of their lives.

Raised a Methodist, Margaret was of the school, if it was Sunday for eight recalls that the teacher supported the idea of genetics, because there are only black man in the world, at least to Adam and Eve were black.

Margaret was often asked how they came to the idea of creating real-time digital all-EEG machine feedback. They wore while in high school, Margaret read the autobiography of a yogi, the descriptions of yogis, has spent 25 years in a cave to be perfected. They reported their heartbeats and to hear their brain waves. She realized that the cave was used as the amplifier.

In his first year of university, she obtained a mandate for the establishment of a genuine research project. Your paper describes the use of a machine, training of people can replicate in their brains, the yogis of perfection to be achieved, with the exception of 25 years in a cave. The professor, which gave him an A-plus, noted that while this is a great imagination, it was so bad that this machine does not exist. She wanted them to appear often to see that the teacher to show them that there is.

Studies at the University of Seattle Pacific with a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Margaret was a brain researcher at the UCLA Medical School. She completed her training with a doctorate in alternative form of medicine at the University of Rio de income Provo, Utah.