Researchers using exosome IV to treat traumatic brain injury A team of researchers from the University of Georgia’s Regenerative Bioscience Center has found that neural exosomes—“cargo” mole... Read more
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant global cause of mortality and morbidity with an increasing incidence, especially in low-and-middle income countries. The most severe TBIs are tr... Read more
A blow to the head or powerful shock wave on the battlefield can cause immediate, significant damage to a person’s skull and the tissue beneath it. But the trauma does not stop there. The im... Read more
Concussion symptoms—such as loss of balance, hazy comprehension, sleep disturbance and inability to walk straight—can be reversed by a new type of magnetic stimulation, research at the Unive... Read more
Test also may identify neurodegeneration in other brain diseases, injuries A simple blood test reliably detects signs of brain damage in people on the path to developing Alzheimer’s disease... Read more
UNIGE researchers have developed a portable device capable of diagnosing within ten minutes mild traumatic brain injury, using a single drop of blood. Every year in Europe, three million peo... Read more
UT Southwestern molecular biologists today report the unexpected finding that selectively deleting a stem cell transcription factor in adult mice promotes recovery after traumatic brain inju... Read more
After two months in a coma, Chris Cahill, 35, of New Brunswick, New Jersey woke up confused about where he was and what had happened to him. Cahill was found unconscious from unknown trauma... Read more
Rice-led study shows how particles quench damaging superoxides Injectable nanoparticles that could protect an injured person from further damage due to oxidative stress have proven to be ast... Read more
Teams will develop and test implantable therapeutic devices for memory restoration in patients with memory deficits caused by disease or trauma DARPA has selected two universities to initial... Read more
Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior—in this case, the ability to reach through a narrow opening and grasp food—usin... Read more
“The cool part about the PoNS is that we’re actually seeing improvements that restore mobility and balance” Kim Kozelichki took a deep breath and began to walk along a hot pink string... Read more
A discovery that can fundamentally change how drugs for arthritis, and potentially many other diseases, are made In a discovery that can fundamentally change how drugs for arthritis, and pot... Read more
A potential new treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI), which affects thousands of soldiers, auto accident victims, athletes and others each year, has shown promise in laboratory researc... Read more
