Two weeks ago, biologists at the University of California - Los Angeles provided confirmation that head injuries can lead to serious brain disorders. Through this study, scientists supplied the first cell “atlas” of the hippocampus — the part of the brain responsible for regulating learning and memory — when affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI). This was the first study of individual cell...
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Explaining Traumatic Brain Injury, Part I
We’ve talked extensively here about dementia and Alzheimer's disease and the various causes. You can visit our blog here to read more posts on Alzheimer's and ways researchers are trying to combat it. But for today, we want to focus on one area that we have yet to explore: traumatic brain injury (TBI) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). We will look at what exactly TBI is, the symptoms...
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