One of the most frustrating parts of recovering from a brain injury is feeling normal but still being functionally impaired. Just because your symptoms are gone doesn’t mean your brain has fully healed. This hasn’t always been the way we understood things however. In fact, until very recently concussions were almost entirely judged symptomatically,…
ReadNew Hampshire officials released a statement last Wednesday saying they are closely monitoring eight patients who may have been exposed to a deadly brain disease. Surgical equipment used on these eight patients was found to have been contaminated by proteins that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) from an earlier procedure. The instruments had been sterilized using…
ReadPatients with chronic trauma-related brain disease might progress in two unique but distinct ways, according to a study that examined prospective and postmortem data. One seems to be characterized by mood and behavioral disorders, while the other is related to cognitive impairment. The study examined 36 patients with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and found that…
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