The application of immunofluorescent markers and confocal microscopy revealed that the hippocampal dentate gyrus contained cells labeled for both BrdU and a neuron-specific marker: neuron-specific ...

From 2008 to 2013, its personnel and operation partially overlapped with those of the MEDVAMC traumatic brain injury (TBI) Center of Excellence that was led by Dr. Harvey Levin, Ph.D. Since that time ...

Michelle L. Monje, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; Shinichiro Mizumatsu, John R. Fike, Department of Neurological Surgery ...

The prognosis for mild TBI is usually better than for a moderate TBI, and the prognosis for moderate TBI is usually better than for a severe TBI. With a concussion (mild TBI), most people recover most ...

A severe TBI is a term used when a person experiences an extended period of unconsciousness (coma) or amnesia following trauma. A severe TBI may lead to a wide range of short- or long-term changes in ...

While overall neuron-to-neuron connectivity decreased after brain injury, all the mice could use an exercise wheel as normal. However, the activity of injured brains throughout both periods of ...

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is any injury to your head that changes the way your brain typically works. Brain injuries usually stem from a sudden impact or trauma to the head—such as falling ...

What is counseling after traumatic brain injury like? Counseling after a brain injury may focus on processing the patient’s experience after such a tremendous change and charting a path forward.

If we make the conservative guess that each neuron has 1,000 synapses, that would put the total synaptic connections in your cortex at 30 trillion — a number so large that it is literally beyond ...