Posts Tagged ‘University of California’
By Paul Stone On February 24th, 2014
The link between traumatic brain injuries and epilepsy has been well documented, but researchers have only recently found an explanation for why up to 50 percent of people who suffer brain trauma are at risk of developing injury which they hope will lead to the creation of an emergency therapy to lower the risk and…
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By Paul Stone On January 3rd, 2013
If you’ve received a traumatic brain injury at some point, you may have had a CT scan done. If you did, it is very likely the scan came back normal. This is because, according to scientists from the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco General Hospital CT scans may not show signs of traumatic…
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By Paul Stone On November 6th, 2012
According to scientists from the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of California, Davis, high blood pressure may lead to brain injury and premature brain aging, even among people with only slightly raised blood pressure. The researchers are investigating links between systolic blood pressure, and various indicators of brain injury among middle-aged adults. The latest…
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