Scientists find brain damage in vets similar to trauma disorder seen in ... 
Boston.com (blog)
By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff The same type of brain damage identified in 14 deceased professional football players has been pinpointed in veterans who endured bomb blasts in Iraq and Afghanistan - a finding that raises concerns that numerous other ...
Study: War vets', athletes' brain injuries similar CBS News
Exposure To Blasts And Concussive Injuries Have Similar Brain Effects RedOrbit
Does brain injury link NFL players, wounded warriors? CNN
CBC.ca 
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Brain damage from IED blasts and football concussions is similar, study shows 
Washington Post
It adds to the evidence that injuries once officially termed ?mild? may be anything but. Specifically, head trauma that doesn't knock a person unconscious may nevertheless kill some brain cells and damage the architecture of others, ...

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Revealing brain damage from battlefield to playing field 
Reuters
But because mild and moderate brain injuries do not show up on CT or other imaging, doctors and even family members are often skeptical that any real damage exists. Now the first experiment of its kind documents exactly what "the invisible injury" - at ...
Brain damage from battlefield to playing field HealthNews
Athletic, combat brain injuries similar UPI.com
Report: Single Bomb Blast Causes Soldiers NFL-like Brain Trauma U.S. News & World Report
TODAYonline 
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Brain Injury Study: A Single Season Of Hits May Harm College Athletes' Ability ... 
Huffington Post
"This study shows there's not a huge effect overall -- there's not a dramatic effect pre- and post-season," said Dr. Doug Smith, director of the Penn Center for Brain Injury and Repair, who was not involved in the new study.

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Rod through Phineas Gage's brain caused more damage than thought 
Los Angeles Times
Using modern computational techniques, the team combined the CT image of Gage's skull with the images of the brains of the modern men to assess what kind of damage had occurred. They reported in the journal PLoS One that the rod damaged only 4% of ...
Phineas Gage's Missing Brain Mapped LiveScience.com
UCLA researchers map damaged connections in Phineas Gage's brain EurekAlert (press release)
UCLA researchers study man with horrific brain injury Examiner.com
Science Codex  -The Guardian (blog)  -Local 10 
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Link between sports-related head injuries, brain disease sought 
Daily Bruin
By MANSI SHETH The Daily Bruin examined different takes on the growing concern around concussions and other head injuries in sports. As soon as David Hovda, director of UCLA's Brain Injury Research Center, heard about Junior Seau's suicide on May 2, ...
NFL Player Quits Fearing Brain Damage WFMY News 2
Is Football to Blame for Players' Suicides? Scientific American (blog)
Jacob Bell exits game to save concussion damaged brain while Emmitt Smith worried HULIQ
California Golden Blogs (blog)  -Beausejour Review 
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Brain injury charity Headway plans new Cambridge centre 
BBC News
A brain injury charity has started raising funds for a new £2.5m rehabilitation centre near Cambridge. Headway currently provides day centre support from a building described by its chief executive as "cramped and dire". Mary Goode said the charity ...
Charity highlights role of brain injury carers This Is Wiltshire
Help for challenges of brain injury Stirling Observer
£2m plan will offer head start to charity Cambridge News
Luton Today  -Channel Television  -Mansfield Chad 
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Eureka!: When a Blow to the Head Creates a Sudden Genius 
The Atlantic
By Brian Fung Brain injuries can sometimes reveal extraordinary talents in people. Now, savant syndrome is helping to create whole new fields of scientific discovery. For a long time, it was a mystery as to how horses galloped.

 

Brain Injury Survivor and Published Author put Lifestyles' into a Positive ... 
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
"Swimming saved my life after my car accident," notes brain injury survivor, Jason Deierlein, "It allowed me to adopt the correct lifestyle growing up." After a car accident changed a life forever, incorporating what Jason learned through the lifestyle ...

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What you need to know about traumatic brain injuries 
Fox News
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when an external force, such as a violent blow, damages the brain. Depending on the severity of the injury, this could end in serious long-term damage or even death. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report ...
Traumatic Brain Injury Prevention, Research and Treatment to be Explored at ... Wauwatosa Now
It's Not Just a Bump on the Head dailyRx
Brain injury article offered useful information In-Forum

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