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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.

Age-Related Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow and Female Head Trauma Patients (Nov 20)

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a substantial cause of mortality in the United States. Gender has often been overlooked as a factor affecting outcome after TBI. Research has shown physiologic differences in cerebral blood flow (CBF) between males and females, but the effect of gender on outcome after TBI has not been extensively studied.

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New Research Targets Treatment for Brain Injuries (Dec 5)

Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) researchers have identified a process that could lead to development of repair mechanisms for people suffering from dementia and acquired brain injury.

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Scrambled Brains: New Technique Puts Brain-imaging Research On Its Head (Dec 12)

Researchers have devised a technique that for the first time shows what the brain does when the skull accelerates.

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Discovery Sheds Light Into How Stem Cells Become Brain Cells (Dec 19)

Researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have discovered one key gene that appears to control how stem cells become various kinds of brain cells.

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The Winter 2006 (15.1) 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).

Winter Issue Table of Contents:

New Brain Imaging Research
New Brain Injury Treatment
Helping Stem Cell Transplants
Brain's Language Control Center
Early Warning of Brain Woes
Changes Crucial to Brain Recovery
2005-6 Conference Schedule

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12/28/05 MIT Researcher Finds Neuron Growth In Adult Brain
12/21/05 Clinical Trial to Test Stem Cell Approach for Children with Brain Injury
12/20/05 Brain Stimulation Boosts Hand Function After Stroke
12/20/05 A Case of Perilymphatic Fistula in Blunt Head Injury
12/19/05 Impact on the Brain
12/19/05 Long Term Outcome After Traumatic Brain Injury
12/15/05 Discovery Sheds Light Into How Stem Cells Become Brain Cells
12/14/05 Influence of History of Head Trauma and Epilepsy on Delinquents in a Juvenile Classification Home
12/09/05 New Technique Puts Brain-Imaging Research on its Head
12/09/05 Influence of Definition and Location of Hypotension on Outcome Following Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
12/08/05 New Imaging Technique Stands Brain Injury Research on its Head
12/07/05 Functional Plasticity or Vulnerability After Early Brain Injury?
12/06/05 Use of the Zung Depression Scale in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: 1 Year Post-Injury
12/06/05 Free CDC Tool Kit on Concussion for High School Coaches
12/06/05 Software Measures Severity of Head Injury
12/06/05 Public Attitudes Towards Survivors of Brain Injury
12/06/05 Prehospital Endotracheal Intubation in Adult Major Trauma Patients with Head Injury
12/06/05 New Tool Takes Guesswork Out of Concussions
12/06/05 MSU-B Studies Effects of Concussions on Athletes
12/06/05 Headache in Paediatric Head Injury
12/06/05 Derivation of a Clinical Decision Rule to Guide the Interhospital Transfer of Patients with Blunt Traumatic Brain Injury
12/06/05 Central Auditory Processing and Social Functioning Following Brain Injury in Children
12/06/05 Aspirin and the Risk of Intracranial Complications Following Head Injury
12/06/05 Are We Able to Comply With the NICE Head Injury Guidelines?
12/05/05 Predictors of Disorientation Among Brain Injury and Stroke Patients During Rehabilitation
12/05/05 New Research Targets Treatment for Dementia and Brain Injuries
12/05/05 Neurorehabilitation
12/05/05 Head Injuries
11/18/05 Acute Secondary Adrenal Insufficiency After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Study

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
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Newsletters
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ILS
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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:

Problems With Morphine Use in Patients With a Severe Brain Injury
(NABIS:H) National Acute Brain Injury Study: Hypothermia
Depression and Traumatic Brain Injury
Erythropoietin Effects After Traumatic Brain Injury
Monitoring Brain Activity in Human Brain Injury

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

Feb 8
Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island Annual Conference
Warwick, RI
401-242-6599
Email: info@biaofri.org
Web: http://65.242.98.185/RI

Feb 18
Concussion in Student Athletes
Mesa, AZ
480-219-6035
Email: info@biaaz.org
Web: www.biaaz.org

Feb 25-Mar 2
NANOS Annual Conference
Tucson, AZ
952-646-2037
Email: info@nanosweb.org
Web: www.nanosweb.org

Mar 9-10
Medical and Legal Conference
Salt Lake City, UT
801-484-2240
Web: www.biau.org

Mar 9-11
Federal TBI Interagency Conference
Bethesda, MD
973-243-6812
Email: info@tbi-interagency.org
Web: http://tbi-interagency.org

Mar 14-18
Vestibular Rehabilitation
Atlanta, GA
678-316-7771
Email: vimoore@aol.com
Web: www.apta.org

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

Mar 23-26
NORA Annual Conference
Tucson, AZ
866-222-3887
Web: www.nora.cc

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

Apr 13-14
Brain Injury Association of Maine Annual Conference
Portland, ME
207-861-9900
Email: info@biame.org
Web: www.biame.org

Apr 27-30
AOTA Annual Conference
Charlotte, NC
301-652-2682
Web: www.aota.org

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

Jun 13-17
CMSA Annual Conference
Dallas, TX
705-741-3412
Email: cmsa@cmsa.org
Web: www.cmsa.org

Jun 21-24
APTA Annual Conference
Orlando, FL
703-684-APTA
Web: www.apta.org

Jun 23-24
Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop
Gatwick Airport, UK
Email: enquiries@BrainTreeTraining.co.uk
Web: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

Aug 10-13
APA Annual Conference
New Orleans, LA
202-336-5500
Email: convention@apa.org
Web: www.apa.org/convention

Sep 28-30
Brain Injury Association of Michigan Annual Conference
Lansing, MI
810-229-5880
Email: info@biami.org
Web: www.biami.org

Oct 6-7
Evaluation and Treatment of Visual Perceptual Dysfunction
Gatwick Airport, UK
Email: enquiries@BrainTreeTraining.co.uk
Web: www.braintreelearning.co.uk

Oct 8-11
ANA Annual Conference
Chicago, IL
952-545-6284
Email: Julieratzloff@llmsi.com
Web: www.aneuroa.org

Conferences 2006-7: click here

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

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

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