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Explaining Traumatic Brain Injury, Part II
In our previous post we defined what TBI is, the symptoms and causes. Today we will examine the risk factors, complications and possible prevention.
Breaking News: Possible New Alzheimer’s Treatment Discovered
What if a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease had already been discovered? That’s what a team of researchers at Yale University are exploring. This promising new research could be a game-changer for the early stages of the neurodegenerative disease.
Sports Medicine and Neuroscience
Sports medicine used to be the field of sprains, strains and broken bones — firm orthopedic territory. But today, with more focus on the damage that a simple concussion can cause and the knowledge that it can lead to long-term, detrimental brain injury, the realm of sports medicine has moved into the arena of neurologists
EXPLORING CONCUSSIONS
Over the past few months we’ve been exploring Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, better known as CTE. Today we thought we’d back it up and start where these conditions often begin, concussion.
You Are What You Eat: Give your Brain Some Love
This is the time of year when we tend to do quite a bit of overindulging and overimibing. To help keep things in check, we thought this was the perfect time to check in on the foods and lifestyle choices that can help support brain health.
Examining the Risk of CTE to NFL Players
It’s the time of year when the glorious thing we Texans have looked forward to all year — football season — is starting to wrap up. We’re all looking forward to the college bowl games and the NFL is rounding out the end of the regular season. While we tend to glorify the sport around these parts, as of late there’s mounting evidence that football puts players, especially NFL players, at a...