TBI Health

Increasing awareness about Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs) and post-concussion syndrome. Not an MD. Opinions are my own. Living with TBIs since 2011.

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"A world-first international study led by the University of South Australia has identified a new drug to stop athletes developing dementia after sustaining repeated head injuries in their career." #BrainInjury
#tbi https://t.co/P94nSkNPnB

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"The likelihood of death following a traumatic brain injury is twice as high for people of color than white people" #TBI #braininjury
https://t.co/mMSK2ynGOw

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"New research has found that 78% of women prisoners in Scotland have a history of significant head injury – most of which occurred in the context of domestic abuse that often lasted over periods of several years." #TBI #domesticviolence
https://t.co/WGidV2P0zT

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"Cognitive symptoms such as problems with memory and executive function, but not mood or motor disorders, were associated with #CTE pathology. The findings advance the ability to diagnose CTE in living people." #TBI #braininjury
https://t.co/GuAL9LXppQ

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"A newly developed reparative hydrogel, which researchers are dubbing “brain glue”, protects against loss of brain tissue following a #TBI and can aid in functional neural repair."
https://t.co/KhCM9NvyWx

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

Cognitive fatigue is a common among individuals with a brain injury. Recent research has shown that "changes in perceptual certainty and response bias, two central metrics of signal detection theory (SDT), correlate with changes in cognitive fatigue":
https://t.co/P7WJkY00gM

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"A single head injury can increase the risk of developing dementia, especially in women. Suffering more than one head injury increases the risk further, a new study reports." #TBI #braininjury #concussion
https://t.co/eCwyqfLa9M

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"Although traumatic brain injuries involve brain-related symptoms, other organs including the immune system, GI system, lungs, and heart may also be compromised." #TBI #braininjury #concussion
https://t.co/4tNQUElS3d

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"Some neurons have the ability to detect and compensate for neighboring neurons, while others do not. The findings shed new light on synaptic plasticity." #TBI #braininjury #concussion
https://t.co/x22vKnqAwj

[Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. @ChrisNowinski1]

How a Damaged Drainage System May Lead to More Severe #Concussions.

New research suggests injuries to the lymphatic system may play a major role in concussions and even #CTE. Could be a new target for treatment. https://t.co/RysA99ZUH8

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"Smaller brain volumes in the cingulate cortex, insular, and superior frontal cortex predict an increased likelihood of developing PTSD three months after brain injury."#TBI #braininjury
https://t.co/DKNm7hIYPW

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"Researchers have identified a new condition associated with TBI in some patients. Vestibular agnosia, the newly identified disorder, worsens balance problems and reduces vertigo perception and dizziness." #TBI #braininjury
https://t.co/uGDuL68mm2

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

This is a must read:

[International Headache Society @ihs_official]

Cervicogenic headache is commonly diagnosed but the ICHD-3 criteria suggests that radiological evidence of upper cervical spine disorder alone is not diagnostic: there are many headache phenotypes which overlap including migraine and tension-type headache.

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"People who experienced concussion reported sleep disturbances, daytime drowsiness, and fatigue that were persistent months after their injury." #braininjury #chronicfatigue
https://t.co/zeRcZIG4Rw

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

Melatonin Linked to Improved Brain Function in Child Concussion:
https://t.co/5Ardsn1Vja

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

"Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was playing with her daughter when she fell and hit her head on the hardwood floor. She recounts the confusing and painful injury and her experience at the hospital during the pandemic’s 'new normal'.”
https://t.co/TyFO0X151y

[Brain Injury Canada @braininjury_CAN]

Living with brain injury isn't easy. Now we are facing an unprecedented situation with Covid-19.. If you are living with a brain injury, are a family caregiver or a healthcare provider, we want to hear from you. Tell us how COVID-19 has impacted you at [email protected]

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

Blood-based biomarker can detect and predict the severity of a traumatic brain injury showing that even "mild" brain injuries can have long term effects:
https://t.co/tw37NsMq8B

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

To learn more about #TBI fatigue, see https://t.co/zfkKZMdtzi

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

Therapist Luann Jacobs about mild traumatic brain injury and fatigue: 

“Mild brain injury is a real misnomer, as it conveys the idea that nothing much is a problem when quite the opposite is more often true.

[TBI Health @TBI_Health]

Chronic fatigue profoundly affects people with #TBI. Those without an injury often compare their tiredness after a long day of work to how we injured feel. Unfortunately, what we feel is often incomprehensible but Luann Jacobs helps make living with #TBI fatigue relatable.