Football and the Blood Brain Barrier
Brain Posts,
A variety of research tools are being utilized to study the effect of trauma on the brain. In a previous post, I summarized…
March Madness: PLOS ONE News and Blog Round-Up
Public Library of Science - PLoS ONE Blog,
For the month of March, a variety of papers caught the media’s attention, from distracting cell phone conversations, to the…
Understanding Sub-concussive Head Trauma
Buckeye Surgeon,
The link between Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and repeated subconcussive head trauma (as in football) has been well…
Head injuries may spark immune system attack
Futurity.org,
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Head injuries that aren’t quite concussions are still dangerous, say researchers, who cite damage to the…