O'Shanick, chairman and former medical director of the Brain Injury Association of America.
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"After a while it gets old and not so fulfilling to take the brain out when (an athlete) is dead, " said Bailes, a neurosurgeon and director of the Brain Injury Research Institute, which focuses on the study of traumatic brain injuries and their prevention.
Injury to the left side of the brain will cause a right hemiplegia and injury to the right side a left hemiplegia.
But it said many other sports, such as athletics, swimming, judo and football, "require discipline but do not pose the same threat of brain injury".
Mr Morgan works on the Galashiels-based charity's newsletter alongside colleague Kieran Robb who also told his story about his remarkable recovery as part of Brain Injury Week.
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Although free of dementia symptoms, and although medical tests have yielded no diagnosis of brain injury, Yepremian, a plaintiff against the league, said he suffers from mood swings that he says may or may not be related to football injuries.
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Both findings, Dr. Roses argues, suggest that people born with an E-4 gene suffer more from poor "housekeeping" than other people and thus are less able to stand the stress of brain injury, whether from an accident or a hemorrhage.
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After being rewarmed, babies at UCSF are given an MRI to look at brain structure and for evidence of degree of injury, and EEGs, which measure the brain's electrical activity and seizures.
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On top of that, he purportedly suffered short-term memory loss as a result of traumatic brain injury.
The NFL and the player's union, though sometimes at loggerheads over safety issues, are each funding a range of brain-injury research.
Prince Harry has opened the new headquarters of a brain injury charity supported by his mother, during his first official visit to Nottingham.
The US military has reported almost 230, 000 cases of traumatic brain injury among more than 2 million Americans who have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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In complex cases where the diagnosis is unclear or there is a suspicion of coexisting conditions, especially if there is a history of head injury or other brain trauma, a SPECT scan can help.
With a brain injury, functioning may be impaired depending on what area of the brain was damaged, Francisco said.
Only when you see football at close range is it possible to understand the dimensions of the brain-injury problem.
" The more complicated, but more accurate answer is "yes, sometimes but it depends, and lots of time the brain injury is a red herring.
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"The congresswoman's family wants to ensure she receives the best rehabilitative care possible for her type of serious penetrating brain injury, " said Dr. Michael Lemole.
For instance, an injury to the left hemisphere of the brain, which in 95% of people controls the capacity to understand and generate language, doesn't necessarily mean the patient can never have a conversation again.
The Crash Reel (Jan. 23, 8:15 p.m. at Wheeler Opera House) is an HBO documentary about the traumatic brain injury and recovery of snowboarder Kevin Pearce after his horrific crash while training for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
This is the diagnosis whereby caregivers are convicted of child abuse after babies die of sudden subdural brain bleeding and swelling with no evidence of external injury.
Kevin Guskiewicz, director of the University of North Carolina's Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, said the "vast majority" of kids playing in youth football leagues aren't going to have the type of exposure to injury NFL players have.
Studies have shown that brain injury increases the risk of violent and aggressive behavior.
"Even with severe brain injury, some qualities of the human existence are preserved and we should always treat patients with dignity, " Hanley said.
Over the years, Mr. Welch experienced an expanding list of symptoms of PTSD and traumatic brain injury, from insomnia and anxiety to dizziness and vomiting.
Miss Blunnie, who had been due to give birth within days, had suffered a severe brain injury as the result of repeated blows and more than 50 separate injuries.
That means that in rare cases, a brain injury could damage one of these abilities more than the other, leaving the patient more fluent on the phone than in person, Thompson said.
Newly released AAN (American Academy of Neurology) guidelines earlier this week to manage sports-related concussions recommend trainers, coaches and physicians to err on the side of caution and remove athletes from play in the setting of a possible traumatic brain injury or concussion.
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He was later diagnosed with a serious brain injury and spent the remainder of his life in intensive care.
The cause of death was a hypoxic brain injury, caused by a severe decrease in oxygen to the brain.
Mrs Creane, who previously worked as a successful HR manager, was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and a serious form of epilepsy.
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