Brain Injury

Kids say the darndest things. Young children seem to have a knack for picking up the smallest details and repeating them at the worst possible time. Often, it’s a simple misunderstanding – kids just don’t have the communication skills to say exactly what they mean and don’t understand the power of language. Unfortunately, this can…

It’s no secret that the brain, and all matters pertaining to it, is complicated. After all, it is essentially a gooey supercomputer powering these containers we call bodies. We still don’t understand every single facet of how the brain works – and just the implications of that sentence are enough to give you an ironic…

Psychedelics such as mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, and more used to be all the rage amongst young partygoers before fading into the relative background with the new millennium. Now, though, they seem to be returning — and not just in the obvious way. Scientists around the world are studying their properties for medicinal therapy. The idea…

In what could be a breakthrough regarding the detection of traumatic brain injuries (TBI), Abbott has announced that a blood test it is developing might be able to detect mild TBI in patients even if a CT scan could not. The news of this study first broke in August 2019 but Abbott recently announced in…

For decades, we’ve believed that brain damage resulting from serious head trauma was essentially an irreversible condition. The brain might heal itself a bit, and some trauma could be treated through surgery, but there wasn’t a way to really “fix” a brain injury. Today, the majority of brain specialists agree that even brain damage of…

A close connection exists between traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and acquired brain injuries (ABIs). Both are brain injuries that victims sustain after birth. Certain conditions that an infant possesses at birth or progressive illnesses such as Parkinson’s disease do not fall under the category of TBIs or ABIs. Although TBIs and ABIs are similar, these…