Trauma to the brain is a leading cause of death and disability. The primary injury initiates a cascade of biochemical reactions in the brain that causes further neuronal damage, a process referred to as secondary brain injury. The mechanisms for secondary brain injury are not fully understood and successful treatments for traumatic brain injury (TBI) still remain elusive. This study was underta...

OBJECTIVE Demonstrate brain perfusion changes due to neuronal activation after functional electrical stimulation (FES). METHOD It was studied 14 patients with hemiplegia who were submitted to a program with FES during fourteen weeks. Brain perfusion SPECT was performed before and after FES therapy. These patients were further separated into 2 groups according to the hemiplegia cause: cranial ...

Introduction: The impact on head injury is trauma to the scalp, brain, and skull, so maintain stable oxygenation in body brain tissues, oxygen therapy very important patients that saturation levels increase. Objective: To determine description of changes clients with injuries. Methods: descriptive case study subjects used were 2 through inclusion exclusion criteria. Results: Changes Head injuri...

Head trauma is a common event that often causes traumatic brain injury (TBI). Following the acute mechanical insult, TBI evolves over the ensuing minutes and days. Understanding the secondary factors that contribute to TBI might suggest therapeutic strategies to reduce the long-term consequences of brain trauma. To assess secondary factors that contribute to TBI, we studied a fluid percussion i...

Objective: To observe the effects of the ganglioside (GM1) on Nogo-A expression in cerebral cortex for the rats which have brain trauma, to explore the possible mechanisms of GMl promoting the nerve repair of traumatic brain injury. Methods: SPF SD rats of 100 were randomly divided into four groups: no operation group (n = 10), sham operation group (n = 20), saline model group (n=35), GMI group...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of brain injury and its effects in populations exposed to war violence has not been studied in recent years. AIMS To examine the association between traumatic brain injury events and psychiatric symptoms of major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Cambodian survivors of mass violence. METHOD The population comprised a multi-stage random sample ...

Introduction Most youths who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) lose their diagnosis in the first 1–2 years. However, there are few studies on this brain mechanism, and heterogeneity of findings is partially due to different stimuli applied mixed trauma history. Therefore, use trauma-related/unrelated study remittance mechanism earthquake-induced PTSD could advance our knowledge ...

Trauma patients are at high risk of cervical and associated injuries. The standard protocol includes immobilization of the cervical spine in a polytrauma as it will help to prevent spinal injuries in the prehospital settings. Hard cervical collar (or alternatives) is routinely used until the cervical spine clearance is obtained . In patients with traumatic brain injury avoiding any kind of mane...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We compare the prevalence of clinically important traumatic brain injuries and the use of cranial computed tomography (CT) in children with minor blunt head trauma with and without ventricular shunts. METHODS We performed a secondary analysis of a prospective observational cohort study of children with blunt head trauma presenting to a participating Pediatric Emergency Care Ap...