In the last five years, we have seen a lot more media coverage involving traumatic brain injuries and concussions. While we have seen a lot of talk about head injuries suffered by our brave service members, we are now hearing a lot more about head injuries in professional sports and…
Over the past decade, scientists and doctors have made many advances with regard to how head injuries, including traumatic brain injuries, are treated. One major reason for this was that in the global War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq among other places, we have had thousands of brave men…
We have seen a lot of news coverage around the country about police-involved shootings and the protests that increasingly follow. One recent shooting in Charlotte that has led to considerable protests from the community and across the nation was partially captured on cell phone video where the wife of the decedent can…
According to a recent news report from the Daily Caller, Joe Scarborough’s 25-year-old son has just suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after falling down a flight of steps. He is currently in Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Scarborough is currently working on a MSNBC show called “Morning Joe”’…
According to a recent news feature form FierceBiotech, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have just agreed to provide $3 million to a biotech firm that is developing portable brain monitoring system. The lab opened three years ago and is working on products that are portable and will be able…
When someone suffers a head injury, including a closed head injury which involves no noticeable bleeding, it often results in a pooling of blood between the brain and dura. This pooling of blood, or even a bruise to the brain, results in the buildup of pressure that can cut of…
A recent news feature from the New York Times takes a look the number of reported head injuries as a result of stroller accidents and how those numbers are on the rise. National reporting statistics show that on average, 50 children each day will be seen in the emergency room…
While it may seem strange to think of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as being mild, neurologists routinely distinguish between the different degrees of brain damage a person can experience. One of the reasons doctors are now doing this is because they know a lot more about the human brain…
Following the death of boxing legend Mohammad Ali earlier this summer, there has been a lot of news coverage about Parkinson’s disease in recent weeks. There has also been a lot of head injury and concussion news as result of the recent movie starring Will Smith, and the injuries we…
There has been an increasing amount of awareness raised about the dangerous effects of repeat head injuries, suffered by athletes. It’s extremely common in what are known as “contact sports,” or those sports in which the body routinely comes in hard contact with other persons or objects. The greater awareness…