Neurological consequences of traumatic brain injuries in sports. [PDF]
, 2015 Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common in boxing and other contact sports. The long term irreversible and progressive aftermath of TBI in boxers depicted as punch drunk syndrome was described almost a century ago and is now widely referred as chronic ...
Hardy, J, Ling, H, Zetterberg, H
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2012 We recently reported that the neuropathic pain medication, gabapentin (GBP; Neurontin), significantly attenuated both noxious colorectal distension (CRD)-induced autonomic dysreflexia (AD) and tail pinch-induced spasticity compared to saline-treated ...
Alexander G. Rabchevsky +12 more
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Genetic Approach to Elucidate the Role of Cyclophilin D in Traumatic Brain Injury Pathology
Cells, 2021 Cyclophilin D (CypD) has been shown to play a critical role in mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) opening and the subsequent cell death cascade.
Ryan D. Readnower +4 more
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Primary Blast Traumatic Brain Injury in the Rat: Relating Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Behavior [PDF]
, 2013 The incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among military personnel is at its highest point in U.S. history. Experimental animal models of blast have provided a wealth of insight into blast injury.
Budde, Matthew D. +5 more
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Evidence of the role of the cerebellum in cognitive theory of mind using voxel-based lesion mapping
Scientific Reports, 2022 Theory of Mind (ToM) is a social-cognitive skill that allows the understanding of the intentions, beliefs, and desires of others. There is a distinction between affective and cognitive ToM, with evidence showing that these processes rely on partially ...
Pierre-Aurélien Beuriat +5 more
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Neurobiology of Disease, 2023 The latency between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the onset of epilepsy (PTE) represents an opportunity for counteracting epileptogenesis. Antiepileptogenesis trials are hampered by the lack of sensitive biomarkers that allow to enrich patient's ...
Rossella Di Sapia +7 more
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Extent, patterns and demographic correlates for physical fighting among school-attending adolescents in Namibia: examination of the 2013 Global School-based Health Survey [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Physical fighting is particularly detrimental for young people, often affecting other areas of their developing lives, such as relationships with friends and family and participating in risky behaviors.
Laura E. Davis +3 more
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Traumatic Brain Injury Induces Genome-Wide Transcriptomic, Methylomic, and Network Perturbations in Brain and Blood Predicting Neurological Disorders. [PDF]
, 2017 The complexity of the traumatic brain injury (TBI) pathology, particularly concussive injury, is a serious obstacle for diagnosis, treatment, and long-term prognosis. Here we utilize modern systems biology in a rodent model of concussive injury to gain a
Agrawal, Rahul +5 more
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Position-Dependent Urinary Retention in a Traumatic Brain Injury Patient: A Case Report [PDF]
, 2009 INTRODUCTION: Voiding disorders are common complication after traumatic brain injury. Usually, they are caused by neurogenic bladder although they can also occur as a result of other pathologic processes and conditions as well as side effects of ...
Chernev, Ivan, Yan, Kun
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Acute inflammatory profiles differ with sex and age after spinal cord injury
Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2021 Background Sex and age are emerging as influential variables that affect spinal cord injury (SCI) recovery. Despite a changing demographic towards older age at the time of SCI, the effects of sex or age on inflammation remain to be elucidated. This study
Andrew N. Stewart +8 more
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