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Traumatic Brain Injuries during Development: Implications for Alcohol Abuse

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017
Traumatic brain injuries are strongly related to alcohol intoxication as by some estimates half or more of all brain injuries involve at least one intoxicated individual.
Zachary M. Weil, Kate Karelina
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Flexor tenotomies for the treatment of bilateral wrist contracture after traumatic brain injury: A case report

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Message Traumatic brain injuries have the potential to cause the development of long‐term complications. We aim to show that the use of flexor tenotomies in the treatment of flexion contractures following traumatic brain injury is a viable ...
Elizabeth Brown, Tyler Kastner, Justin Harder, Cameron Cox, Brendan MacKay   +4 more
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Tau as a fluid biomarker of concussion and neurodegeneration

Concussion, 2022
Concussion is predominant among the vast number of traumatic brain injuries that occur worldwide. Difficulties in timely identification, whether concussion led to neuronal injury or not, diagnosis and the lack of prognostic tools for adequate management ...
Iftakher Hossain, Kaj Blennow, Jussi P Posti, Henrik Zetterberg   +3 more
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The effects of marijuana use prior to traumatic brain injury on survival

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2021
Background: Legalization of recreational marijuana throughout the United States has been associated with increased emergency department visits involving marijuana and its metabolites, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinoids.
John J. Leskovan, Puja D. Patel, John Pederson, Aaron Moore, Amer Afaneh, Laura R. Brown   +5 more
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Traumatic brain injury in New Zealand: a silent epidemic? [PDF]

, 2013
In 2008 I was fortunate enough to be invited to be part of a research team on a large population based project focusing on the incidence and outcome of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in New Zealand (led by Professor Valery Feigin National Institute of ...
Starkey, Nicola J.
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A cognitive profile of South African children with traumatic brain injury [PDF]

, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-105).Research conducted on pediatric populations have shown that an event such as a traumatic brain injury (TBI) experienced in childhood can lead to persistent neuropsychological deficits months, even years
Malgas, Nancy
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Medico-Legal Aspects and Outcomes of Traumatic Neurological Injuries: A Prospective Observational Study from Kasr- Alainy Hospital in Egypt [PDF]

The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology
BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries are the most common causes of traumatic injury-related death. Grading the severity of traumatic brain injury is an early step in management.
Nashwa Saged, Nadia Kotb, Ahmed El Fiki, Samar Abd Elmawgod taha, Mohamed Ahmed Yehia, Fatma Ali Mahmoud   +5 more
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Systematic review of prognostic models in traumatic brain injury. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability world-wide. The ability to accurately predict patient outcome after TBI has an important role in clinical practice and research.
Reinhard Wentz, Ian Roberts, Wentz, Reinhard, Edwards, Phil, Edwards Phil, Roberts Ian, Perel Pablo, Pablo Perel, Wentz Reinhard, Roberts, Ian, Phil Edwards, Perel, Pablo   +11 more
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Initial prognoctic factors of traumatic brain injury, complicate by acute, traumatic subdural hematoma and epidural hematoma and their association with outcome

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is not just one disease, but includes a wide spectrum alteration in brain function, or other evidence of brain pathology caused by external force.  The most important effect of traumatic brain injury is the development of the
Bartłomiej Kulesza, Paweł Szmygin, Adam Nogalski   +2 more
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Aquaporins in Acute Brain Injury: Insights from Clinical and Experimental Studies

Biomedicines
Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of transmembrane water channel proteins facilitating the transport of water and, in some cases, small solutes such as glycerol, lactate, and urea.
Stelios Kokkoris, Charikleia S. Vrettou, Nikolaos S. Lotsios, Vasileios Issaris, Chrysi Keskinidou, Kostas A. Papavassiliou, Athanasios G. Papavassiliou, Anastasia Kotanidou, Ioanna Dimopoulou, Alice G. Vassiliou   +9 more
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