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Mitochondrial Fission After Traumatic Brain Injury
… feature in the pathophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Loss of mitochondrial function disrupts normal cellular processes in the brain, as well as impedes the ability for repair and recovery, creating a vicious cycle that perpetuates damage after injury. To maintain metabolic …
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Life After Brain Injury - Family Perspectives
… Children who are Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors experience changes to their occupational engagement and participation in family life. Families and children who are TBI survivors may experience long-term, chronic disabilities, yet these complex experiences are under …
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Bioengineering Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious health concern affecting over a million people in the UK. Brain shift and herniation, which are closely related to severe disability or death, are important signs of abnormally elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) or space-occupying intracranial mass after …
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Contusion Progression in Traumatic Brain Injury
Cerebral contusions that result from brain trauma have the propensity to enlarge over the days following injury, including extension of the haemorrhage core and swelling of the surrounding peri-contusional brain. This secondary injury increases the likelihood of death and severe disabil- ity, and …
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Autoantibody Responses to Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability in young adults in the developed world. After accounting for known prognostic factors, there remains marked unexplained heterogeneity in outcome between individuals with overtly similar injuries, and furthermore, around one …
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Pre-clinical Targets for Ischemic Brain Injury
… cerebral blood flow which results in ischemia. Injury to the myelinated axons located in white matter is observed in ischemic injuries but is generally underappreciated. Research has shown that there is extensive vesicular glutamate release during ischemia, causing excitotoxic injury to …
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Impaired self-awareness following acquired brain injury
… of everyday task ability following acquired brain injury (ABI) presents a serious obstacle to progress in rehabilitation. However, there is a lack of consensus about the optimal method of determining awareness level, how best to increase awareness, and even with regard to the very nature of …
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Family experience after paediatric acquired brain injury
… family experiences after paediatric Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). ABI can result in physical, cognitive and psychological difficulties (Royal College of Physicians& British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2003). Given its wide-ranging impact, ABI is likely to have an effect on the family. …
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Health psychology in brain injury rehabilitation services
… rehabilitation service for adults with acquired brain injury All pieces of work were carried out within this setting expect for the consultancy unit which was carried out within a pilot service delivered by an Adult Disability Team ofa local Social Services. Individuals with acquired brain injury …
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Coping and adjustment following acquired brain injury
… of individuals who have sustained acquired brain injuries. To date there has been a only a thin evidence base for the aetiological factors involved in people's emotional reactivity following what is a profound and potentially devastating life changing event. The first paper critically …
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Intracranial Monitoring after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Intracranial monitoring after severe traumatic brain injury offers the possibility for early detection and amelioration of physiological insults. In this thesis, I explore cerebral insults due raised intracranial pressure, decreased cerebral perfusion pressure and impaired cerebral pressure …
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Molecular mechanisms of radiation-induced brain injury
… most commonly used modality in the treatment of brain tumors. About 200,000 patients with brain tumors are treated with either partial large field or whole brain irradiation every year in the United States. The use of radiation therapy for treatment of brain tumor, however, can subsequently lead …
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Incidence of traumatic brain injury, prevalence of dysphagia, and factors predicting health outcomes following traumatic brain injury in adults
South Africa has a high incidence of injury-related disorders, such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of motor vehicle accidents and assault. Dysphagia is a common sequela of TBI, which may result in malnutrition or aspiration pneumonia. There is limited epidemiological data available for …
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Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Effect on Students
Over one million people suffer a traumatic brain injury every year, many of whom are students between the ages of 5 and 18. Using a qualitative case study approach, I wanted to discover the specific factors that both impede and help the school re-entry process for students in grades kindergarten …
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Longer term neurocognitive outcomes after acquired brain injury
… of alcohol (intoxication at time of injury and history of problematic alcohol use) on memory during the post- acute recovery stage after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Case files from 303 individuals admitted to inpatient neuro-rehabilitation after single incident TBI were reviewed. …
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Traumatic brain injury : traditional and narrative assessment techniques
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes impairment of executive functioning, as well as cognitive and language abilities of various degrees. Standard language tests currently focus on very specific language disorders and can not identify language disorders of TBI subjects with high-level language …
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Binge Alcohol and Recovery After Traumatic Brain Injury
… Americans are hospitalized following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) every year, 80,000 of whom develop a long-term disability. The factor that places one at perhaps the greatest risk of suffering a TBI is alcohol intoxication. 30-50% of TBI sufferers have a blood alcohol level above .08 mg/dl at …
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