Brain Injuries

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Transorbital brain injuries.

A 20 year old man attended the accident and emergency department after an assault with a short bladed knife. He had sustained a stab wound to the right orbit. There was no other significant history. On examination he was alert and orientated with a Glasgow coma scale of 15. Snellen visual acuities were no perception of light right eye and 20/20 left eye. Inspection of the right orbit revealed a...

Adult Brain Regeneration After Injuries

The discovery of a continuous renewal of neurons in adult mammalian brains, in particular in the adult hippocampus, has been a breakthrough in Neuroscience. By virtue of the structure-function relationships, this adult hippocampal neurogenesis has been involved in learning and memory. Supporting this hypothesis, a reciprocal relationship between neurogenesis and memory has been evidenced. On on...

Novel intracranial brain cooling catheter to mitigate brain injuries.

BACKGROUND The neuroprotective effects of cooling the spinal cord in a sheep model by a self-contained intrathecal catheter was reported recently by the authors. The present study was designed to determine if cooling catheters in the lateral ventricles of the brain can effectively cool the CSF and thereby reduce brain temperature while maintaining systemic normothermia. METHODS The cooling ca...

Brain Injuries in Real World Accidents –

A study of brain injury biomechanics has been conducted using detailed reconstruction of real world injury events. A total of nineteen head injury cases were identified in neurosurgery wards of two hospitals in Sweden. From these cases, nine were subjected to detailed reconstruction techniques to quantify the head loading causing the injuries. Output of the analyses included the kinematics of t...