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Included are two aspects which are highly relevant to professionals working with clients with brain injuries: The recommendation that Independent Mental Capacity Advocates who deal with individuals affected by brain injury should have specific expertise about the condition Also, that executive impairment is not well assessed by a straightforward structured question and answer format, [...]
While there are no widely available treatments able to restore motor and sensory functions immediately after spinal cord injuries, the researchers believe more insight on the genes could lead to the discovery of biomarkers that predict recovery and pinpoint new targets for treatment. One of the hurdles preventing better spinal cord treatments is that scientists [...]
Cooling the body and brain after a traumatic brain injury has long been used as a technique to decrease inflammation, potentially minimising the long-term impact of the injury. Critics of the approach point to its possible complications and the questionable quality of data that evidences its positive effect. And now, Australian researchers claim it has [...]
Two baby brain injury incidents have resulted in landmark compensation awards totalling over £50m. In one case, a six-year-old boy who suffered a catastrophic brain injury shortly after birth received more than £37m. He had contracted the herpes simplex virus at Watford General Hospital, resulting in a brain fever. This was not detected or acted [...]
The UK’s shortfall of neuro-rehab beds was laid bare recently, as a landmark report on the state of the national approach to brain injury was published. To truly meet demand, the country needs more than triple the current number of neuro- rehab beds, according to the report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Acquired Brain [...]
Exemplar care homes provide a home for a range of adults with complex needs and offer both end of life and long-term care for their service users. There can sometimes be the small ‘miracles’ for some families where their loved ones are placed in Exemplar homes cfor end of life care and they defeat the [...]
When brain lesions occur within the brain network responsible for morality and value- based decision making, they can predispose a person toward criminal behaviour, scientists say. Researchers examined MRI and CT scans of individuals known to have carried out crime. One group of 17 cases had a definitive correlation between criminal behaviour and a brain [...]
Scientists have uncovered a two-way link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intestinal changes. These interactions may contribute to increased infections in patients, and could also worsen chronic brain damage, say US researchers. A study by the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) found that TBI in mice can trigger delayed, long-term changes in the [...]
The average age for men fell from 71 to 68 and from 75 to 73 for women between 2007 and 2016, Public Health England said. The shift is partly due to increased stroke rates among 40 to 69-year-olds – up from 33 per cent to 38 per cent in the period. There has also been [...]
A study by researchers at Umeå University in Sweden found that traumatic brain injuries (TBI) heighten the risk of dementia for more than 30 years after the trauma – although the risk reduces over time. In the first year after TBI, the risk of dementia increases four to six-fold, the researchers found. Beyond that, the [...]
