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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.

Brain Injury Conference (Oct 26)

Brain Injury Business Practice College conference in San Antonio, Dec. 12-14.

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Concussions Promote Dementias (Oct 31)

Repeated concussions boost the chances that retired professional football players will suffer dementias in later life.

Full article: click here

Test May Give Early Warning (Nov 7)

A way to detect broken brain cells may help with more precise treatment of people with severe head injuries.

Full article: click here

Preventing Head Injury in Young Athletes (Nov 14)

The goal is to strike a balance between proliferating athletes' safety without drastically altering the dynamics of the sport.

Full article: click here

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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11/15/05 Prolonged Refractory Status Epilepticus Following Acute Traumatic Brain Injury: A Case Report of Excellent Neurological Recovery
11/14/05 The Risk Of Football Head Injuries
11/11/05 Concussion Rules Extended to Point-to-Points
11/10/05 Public Attitudes Towards Survivors of Brain Injury
11/10/05 Combined High Cervical Spine and Brain Stem Injuries: A Complex and Devastating Injury in Children
11/10/05 The Association Between APOE {varepsilon}4, Age and Outcome After Head Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study
11/09/05 Cerebral Perfusion Pressure and Risk of Brain Hypoxia in Severe Head Injury: A Prospective Observational Study
11/07/05 Use and Perceived Need of Physical Therapy Following Severe Lower-Extremity Trauma
11/07/05 Extensive Cortical Rewiring after Brain Injury
11/07/05 Early Tracheostomy in Closed Head Injuries: Experience at a Tertiary Center in a Developing Country ? A Prospective Study
11/07/05 Cerebral Protection in Traumatic Brain Injury
11/07/05 Brain Injuries
11/07/05 Biomarker Test May Give Early Warning of Brain Woes
11/02/05 Preventing Severe Head and Neck Injuries in High School and Collegiate Athletes
11/01/05 Susceptibility Weighted Imaging: Neuropsychologic Outcome and Pediatric Head Injury
11/01/05 Recovery After Brain Injury Being Probed
11/01/05 Head Injury Patients Not Treated in Specialist Brain Surgery Centres are at Significantly Greater Risk
10/31/05 Lack of Specialist Care for Head Injuries Costing Lives
10/28/05 Hospitalizations for Critically Ill Children with Traumatic Brain Injuries: A Longitudinal Analysis
10/27/05 UF Experts Discover Process to Better Detect Brain Injury
10/27/05 Branched-Chain Amino Acids Enhance the Cognitive Recovery of Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
10/27/05 Alexithymia After Traumatic Brain Injury: Its Relation to Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings and Psychiatric Disorders
10/26/05 Mannitol for Acute Traumatic Brain Injury (Cochrane Review)
10/25/05 Synthetic Blood Announces Positive Results from Traumatic Brain Injury Preclinical Study
10/24/05 FDA Approves Brain Stell Transplant
10/24/05 Outcome After Traumatic Brain Injury: Effects of Aging on Recovery
10/21/05 For Brain Injuries, Looking Beyond the Injury Site is Critical
10/21/05 IL-1RN and IL-1B Gene Polymorphisms and Cerebral Hemorrhagic Events After Traumatic Brain Injury
10/21/05 Comparison of Clinical and Neurophysiologic Responses to Intrathecal Baclofen Bolus Administration in Moderate-to-Severe Spasticity After Acquired Brain Injury
10/19/05 Keeping Kids From Concussions: For Safety's Sake
10/19/05 Impact to the Head Increases Cochlear Implant Reimplantation Rate in Children
10/19/05 Brain Injury Can Cause Detrimental Functional Changes in Brain Regions Far From the Site of the Actual Injury

Read the current press releases: click here

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

Visit the CNS Store:
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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:

Fitness Training After Traumatic Brain Injury
Intravenous Metoclopramide for the Treatment of Post Concussive Headache: a Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial
Enteral Glutamine in Neurologically-Injured Patients
Effect of Hypertonic Resuscitation for Blunt Trauma
Post-TBI Fatigue and Its Treatment
Treatment of Post-TBI Depression

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

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

Dec 12-14
Brain Injury Business Practice College Conference
San Antonio, TX
Website: www.biausa.org/Pages/bibpc.html

Mar 16-17
Brain Injury Association of Maryland Annual Conference
Linthicum Heights, MD
410-448-2924
Website: www.biamd.org

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 December!

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

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