by Ket Patel | Sep 10, 2012 | Slider Content
Patients with childhood primary angiitis of the central nervous system are at elevated risk for poor cognitive outcome, and the risk is highest by far in the subgroup with small-vessel disease presenting with seizures. In the years since use of immunosuppressive...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Chiropractic Neurology
Will Arlen has a traumatic brain injury and is so sensitive to light that he wears sunglasses all the time. The 17-year-old describes his migraines as like a knife stabbing his brain. His short term memory is shot. He can barely stand up on his own or move his left...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Research
It isn’t uncommon for people to pass for ages much older or younger than their years, but researchers have now found that this feature doesn’t apply to our brains. The findings reported online on August 16 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, show...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Research
A mysterious region deep in the human brain could be where we sort through the onslaught of stimuli from the outside world and focus on the information most important to our behavior and survival, Princeton University researchers have found. The researchers report in...
by Ket Patel | Aug 21, 2012 | Concussion
UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers this week announced an important finding: residual symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and concussions may be linked in military personnel who endure blast and/or blunt traumas. Anthony Kontos, Ph.D.,...
