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TBI Resource Guide
The world's #1 traumatic brain injury website*

The TBI Resource Guide is the internet`s central source of information regarding traumatic brain injury. The TBI Resource Guide website consists of over 1,500 pages of information, materials, education and resources about the brain, brain injury and TBI rehabilitation for survivors, families and professionals.

How the Brain Responds to Injury (Sep 12)

For the first time, researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have observed the migratory behavior of microglia in living tissue using high-tech laser imaging microscopy, revealing how immune cells navigate and respond to brain injury and disease..

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Synthetic Blood for TBI (Sep 19)

Approximately one third of severe head injury patients show reduced oxygen tension during the first six to 12 hours following injury, which can lead to post-traumatic brain damage. Oxycyte presents a particularly attractive candidate for increasing cerebral oxygen delivery as earlier studies have demonstrated its potential to perfuse and oxygenate tissues in brain contusions, where capillaries are so narrow that red blood cell transport is impeded.

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Healing the Brain (Sep 24)

Stem cells have long been described as the holy grail of bioscientists. These amazing cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body and have to potential to revolutionise medical science. Serving as a sort of repair system for the body, they can theoretically divide without limit to replenish cells lost due to everyday wear and tear, or following injury or disease..

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Shift in Brain's Language-Control Site Offers Rehab Hope (Oct 10)

Scientists have found that the site in the brain that controls language in right-handed people shifts with aging--a discovery that might offer hope in the treatment of speech problems resulting from traumatic brain injury.

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New Coma Measure (Oct 17)

Mayo Clinic neurologists have created the first new, reliable and easy-to-use clinical tool in 30 years for measuring coma depth, a proposed replacement for the Glasgow Coma Scale.

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The Fall 2005 (14.4) issue of the Inside View quarterly newsletter is now available! With a $12 yearly subscription ($24 international), glossy, hard-copy versions of the Inside View will be delivered to your door every three months.

Two-year subscriptions are only $22 ($44 international) and three-year subscriptions are $30 ($60 international).

Fall Issue Table of Contents:

Heads-Up on TBI
Corticosteroids Do Not Help
Generating Brain Cells
Brain's Response to Injury
Nanowires to Stimulate Brain
25th Anniversary of CNS
2005-6 Conference Schedule

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10/18/05 Biomarker Test May Give Early Warning of Brain Woes
10/18/05 'Big Picture' of Brain Changes May be Crucial to Recovery From Injury
10/17/05 New Helmets Monitor Football Concussions
10/17/05 Headache After Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Longitudinal Analysis
10/17/05 Experts Urge Support for Brain-Injury Study
10/14/05 Survey of Paediatric Case Management Practices in Australia for Children and Young People with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
10/14/05 QTc Dispersion in Children With Severe Head Trauma
10/12/05 Pediatric Closed Head Injuries Treated in an Observation Unit
10/11/05 Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis Associated with Raised Intracranial Pressure in Closed Head Injury with Depressed Skull Fracture
10/11/05 NICE Head Injury Guidelines: Review of the Legal Mandate
10/11/05 New Study at UNC Shows Concussions Promote Dementias in Retired Professional Football Players
10/11/05 Injured Players Should Not Risk Second Concussion
10/11/05 Identification and Treatment of Cervical and Oromandibular Dystonia in Acutely Brain-Injured Patients
10/11/05 Doctor Advises Athletes on Concussion Safety
10/11/05 Diagnostic Criteria for Postconcussional Syndrome After Mild to Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury
10/11/05 Criteria For Head Injury CTs Go Head to Head
10/11/05 Corticosteroids Increased Short and Long-Term Mortality in Adults with Traumatic Head Injury
10/11/05 Case Analysis of Brain-Injured Admittedly Shaken Infants: 54 Cases, 1969-2001
10/10/05 Big Bang Theory
10/10/05 Innovative New Methods for Assessing Concussion
10/10/05 CDC Offers Free Concussion Kit for Coaches, Teens
10/10/05 Shift in Brain's Language-Control Site Offers Rehab Hope
09/24/05 Test Determines When Athletes Can Play After Concussion
09/22/05 UQ Researcher Tracking Key to Healing the Brain
09/22/05 Picking Up the Pieces Traumatic Brain Injuries Leave Survivors Struggling to Rebuild Lives - and Selves - That May Never Be the Same
09/21/05 Head Computed Tomography Scans in Trauma Patients With Seizure Disorder
09/15/05 Managing Head Injured Patients
09/14/05 African Americans at High Risk for Brain Injury
09/08/05 Neonatal Fellow Receives Four-Year Award to Study Brain Injury in Infants
09/08/05 Mayo Clinic Develops New Coma Measurement System
09/08/05 Concussions: The Most Serious Injury You'll Know About
09/07/05 Impact of Patient Race on Receiving Head CT during Blunt Head Injury Evaluation
09/07/05 A Heads-Up Guide to Sports-Related Concussions
09/07/05 Markers of Brain Cell Development May Help Success of Stem Cell Transplants

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The TBI Resource Guide online store has over 75 brain injury related products, including educational multi-media cds, animations, graphics, e-books, newsletters, research article reprints, assessment tools, and laminated educational cards. The new educational multi-media cds provide an in-depth overview of brain injury, mild traumatic brain injury, and brain function. They include audio, video and graphic content in an easy-to-use self-learning format.

Educational CD's
Animations
Graphics
Newsletters
Reprints
ILS
E-Books
Virtual Tour
Laminated Cards

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The TBI Resource Guide offers four on-line, continuing education courses. Our courses are $60 each and certified for 2-hours.

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Applied Behavior Analysis
Brain Injury Rehabilitation: An Overview
Brain Anatomy and Function

CE Courses page: click here

New research studies currently recruiting patients:

Pharmacological Intervention in Depression After Traumatic Brain Injury
Sertraline Vs. Placebo for Symptoms Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Evaluation of an Intervention Model for Family Crisis and Support
Treatment of Citalopram for Anxiety Disorders Following a Traumatic Brain Injury
Comparison Between Different Types of Oxygen Treatment Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Incidence/Magnitude-Haemorrhagic Progression-Cerebral Contusions and Identification (ID) of Safety Issues After Traumatic Brain Injury
Problem Sloving for Caregivers of Persons with Brain Injury
Antidepressant Maintenance In Traumatic Brain Injury
Age of Blood in Brain Injury
Acute Cognitive and Neurobehavioral Intervention: Efficacy Evaluation
Proteomics of Brain Trauma-Associated Elevated Intracranial Pressure (ICP)
Vietnam Head Injury Study - Phase III
Therapeutic Hypothermia for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Japan
Effects of Perfluorocarbon Oxygen Delivery in Severe Head Injury
A Trial of Two on-Line Interventions for Child Brain Injury
Cerebral Hemodynamic Effects of Hypertonic Solutions in Severely Head-Injured Patients
Intensive Monitoring of Brain Injured Patients
Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Recombinant Activated Factor VII in Subjects with Traumatic Brain Injury
Is Sensory Stimulation Effective in Reducing Time Spent in a Coma or Vegetative State
Use of Salt-Water Solution to Improve Symptoms in Concussion
Does Cognitive Rehbilitation Demonstrate Benifits in the Group Setting with People Whom Have Expirienced Brain Injury
Galantamine in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Headache

All clinical trials: click here

The Centre for Neuro Skills Clinical Research and Education Foundation (CNS - CREF) Is a not-for-profit (503c) foundation whose mission is to further the basis of knowledge about treatment of acquired brain injury at the post acute level and share that knowledge with practicing professionals, family members of those with traumatic brain injuries and the general public.

CNS-CREF website: click here

Oct 20-21
Brain Injury Association of Florida Annual Conference
Coral Springs, FL
954-786-2400 ext 2
Email: biafadmin@biaf.org
www.biaf.org

Oct 24
Pediatric TBI: Transitions to School and Community
Washington State Videocast
206-731-5196
Email: megd@u.washington.edu

Nov 3-4
Practical Strategies for Effectively Supporting, Treating, and Educating Families after TBI and other Neurological Disorders
Peterborough, Ontario
705-741-3412
Email: info@mindworksgroup.ca
Website: www.mindworksgroup.ca

Nov 4-5
Pediatric Brain Injury Conference
Miami, FL
305-243-3994/800-622-4453
Email: conf@pedibrain.org
www.pedibrain.org/conference/conference.asp

Nov 12
Brain Injury Association of Virginia Annual Conference
Richmond, VA
Email: michelle@biav.net
Website: www.biav.net

Nov 19
Information Processing: Advanced Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop
Gatwick Airport, London, UK
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

Dec 3
Cognitive Rehabilitation for Physical Therapists
Gatwick Airport, London, UK
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

Apr 1-8 (2006)
AAN Annual Conference
San Diego, CA
651-695-2717
Email: memberservices@aan.com
http://am.aan.com/

Jun 8-9 (2006)
The Multicontext Approach to Cognitive Rehabilitation: Awareness, Memory and Executive Dysfunction
Peterborough, Ontario
705-741-3412
info@mindworksgroup.ca
www.mindworksgroup.ca

Conferences 2005-2007: click here

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That is all for this month. See you in November!

Craig S. Persel
Managing Editor, TBI Resource Guide
Centre for Neuro Skills
cns@neuroskills.com

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