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TBI Resource Guide
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The TBI Resource Guide is the internet`s central source of information regarding traumatic brain injury. The TBI Resource Guide website consists of over 1,700 pages of information, materials, education and resources about the brain, brain injury and TBI rehabilitation for survivors, families and professionals.
We would like to welcome the recent formation of the California Brain Injury Association (CALBIA). CALBIA is a non-profit membership organization providing information, referrals, education, advocacy and support for those affected by brain injury.
For more information about CALBIA, the upcoming conferences, and how to become a member of this important organization please click here
Neural stem cells lend the brain a surprising capacity for self-repair (Dec 18)
The brain contains stem cells with a surprising capacity for repair, researchers report in the December issue of the journal Cell.
Full article: click here
Hospitalizations due to traumatic head injuries down 35% over a decade (Dec 11)
New data released today by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) show that fewer Canadians are admitted to hospitals due to traumatic head injuries than were a decade ago.
Full article: click here
Promising therapy could make post concussion not such a headache (Dec 4)
The therapy consists of 30 minutes of relaxing electromagnetic current to the postural muscles of the spine that would be involved in the injury or symptoms.
More information: click here
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The Winter 2007 (16.1) 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 Treatment for Post-Concussion Syndrome
Progesterone Treatment for TBI
Case Study: One Day at a Time
TBI's Occur Within One Millisecond
Pediatric-Adolescent TBI Program
2007 Conference Schedule
CNS Programs and Services
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12/27/06 Friends after traumatic brain injury in children
12/22/06 Synthetic blood reports positive preliminary results from traumatic brain injury clinical trial
12/19/06 Alcohol may be protective from head injury
12/15/06 Neural stem cells lend the brain a surprising capacity for self-repair
12/12/06 The influence of an auditory distraction on rapid naming after a mild traumatic brain injury: A longitudinal study
12/08/06 Prognostic influence and computed tomography findings in dysautonomic crises after traumatic brain injury
12/07/06 Outcome of traumatic brain injury after three decades — relationship to ApoE genotype
12/06/06 Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms during the first six months after traumatic brain injury
12/05/06 A population-based outcomes study of persons hospitalized with traumatic brain injury: operations of the south carolina traumatic brain injury follow-up registry
12/05/06 Deep venous thrombosis management following traumatic brain injury: a practice survey of the traumatic brain injury model systems
12/05/06 Better headgear through chemistry
12/04/06 A population-based outcomes study of persons hospitalized with traumatic brain injury: operations of the south carolina traumatic brain injury follow-up registry
12/04/06 Brain chip
12/01/06 A pilot study of quetiapine treatment of aggression due to traumatic brain injury
12/01/06 Vocational services for traumatic brain injury: treatment definition and diversity within model systems of care
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
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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.
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** You can now submit your events and conferences directly to our online listing by by going to the page below and clicking on the "submit your event or conference" link:
www.neuroskills.com/events.php
Feb 10-15
Annual NANOS Meeting
Snowbird, UT
952-646-2037
Email: info@nanosweb.org
Web: nanosweb.org
Mar 7
BIA of Rhode Island Annual Conference
Warwick, RI
401-461-6599
Email: braininjuryctr@biaofri.org
Web: http://65.242.98.185/RI
Mar 17-20
NORA Annual Conference
Charleston, SC
866-222-3887
Web: nora.cc
Mar 23-24
Polytraumatic Injuries of War
New York, NY
212-947-7111 ext 328
Email: rsp2@nyu.edu
Web: www.nyacadtbi.org
Mar 29-30
BIA of Maryland Annual Conference
Linthicum Heights, MD
410-448-2924
Email: info@biamd.org
Web: www.biamd.org
Apr 20-23
AOTA Annual Conference
St. Louis, MO
800-SAY-AOTA
Web: aota.org
Apr 28 - Mar 5
AAN Annual Conference
Boston, MA
651-695-2717
Email: memberservices@aan.com
Web: am.aan.com
May 9-11
Visual Perceptual Dysfunction in Adult Brain Injury
Gatwick Airport, UK
Web: cognitive-rehab.org.uk/braintree/vpdw2.htm
May 10-12
5th World AMN-Congress (Academy for Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology)
Düsseldorf, Germany
+49(0)3641 35 33 0
Email: amn2007@conventus.de
Web: www.amn2007.de
Jun 19-23
CMSA Annual Conference
Denver, CO
501-225-2229
Email: cmsa@cmsa.org
Web: cmsa.org
Jun 20-22
ANA Annual Conference
Atlanta, GA
301-628-5000
Email: convention@ana.org
Web: nursingworld.org
Jun 27-30
APTA Annual Conference
Denver, CO
703-684-2782
Web: apta.org
Aug 17-20
APA Annual Conference
San Francisco, CA
202-336-5500
Web: apa.org
Sep 5-8
Annual State of the State in Head Injury Meeting
St. Louis, MO
301-656-3500
Email: nashia@nashia.org
Web: nashia.org
Sep 27-28
BIA of Michigan Annual Conference
Lansing, MI
810-229-5880
Email: info@biami.org
Web: biami.org
Oct 3-5
Brain Injury Association of Missouri Annual Conference
St. Charles, MO
314-426-4024
Email: sgee@biamo.org
Web: www.biamo.org
Oct 6
Brain Injury Association of Missouri Annual Family/Survivor Conference
St. Charles, MO
314-426-4024
Email: sgee@biamo.org
Web: www.biamo.org
Nov 16-18
State of the Art Medical and Rehabilitative Care in Brain Injury: Clinical and Legal Implications
Napa, CA
Tel: 661-872-4903
Email: calbiainfo@yahoo.com
Web: calbia.org
Conferences 2007: click here
Browse through 200 brain injury related books in our TBI Bookstore. Search by author, keywords, categories or book titles and order online via our association with Amazon.com.
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Have you missed one of our newsletters? You can now read past issues of our monthly e-newsletter in
our archive section: click here
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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