Brain Injury

Viz.ai announced a collaboration with BIOS Clinical Trials Coordinating Center at Johns Hopkins University to facilitate patient enrollment for the NIH-funded Biomarker and Edema Attenuation in Intracerebral Hemorrhage study.

The increasing number of scooters and other devices on our streets (hoverboards, electric skateboards, you name it) raise various issues in the personal injury world.

Biomarkers collected on the day of traumatic brain injury had significant prognostic value for death and unfavorable outcome but not for incomplete recovery at 6 months, according to a study published in The Lancet Neurology.

I went into optometry to help patients with severe developmental delays who could not speak for themselves.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Clinicians should consider biological sex when developing therapeutic strategies for military personnel with chronic sleep disorders caused by mild traumatic brain injury, according to a poster at the SLEEP meeting.

RapidAI has announced FDA clearance for Rapid Hyperdensity, a diagnostic tool that enables physicians to quickly assess the severity of injury in patients with acute conditions, such as traumatic brain injury and brain hemorrhages.

BOSTON – Retinal nerve fiber layer degradation showed potential as an objective method to detect and monitor patients with a history of traumatic brain injury, according to data presented at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting.

Vascular brain injury and cognitive reserve markers were independently associated with cognition, such that higher cognitive reserve did not reduce the adverse effects of covert vascular brain injury.

In a recent study, half of those with severe traumatic brain injury and three-quarters of those with moderate TBI recovered the ability to function independently at home for at least 8 hours a day.

Cocoa flavanols may help adults’ brains recover from mild vascular challenges quicker and help them perform better on cognitive tests, according to research published in Scientific Reports.