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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 2,000 pages of information, materials, education and resources about the brain, brain injury and TBI rehabilitation for survivors, families and professionals.

Proteins key to brain function: Research could lead to new treatments for brain injuries (Dec 3)

MIT researchers have identified a family of proteins key to the formation of the communication networks critical for normal brain function. Their research could lead to new treatments for brain injury and disease.

Full article: click here

Neuroscientists find early lead exposure impedes recovery from brain injury (Dec 10)

Exposure to lead can hinder the brain’s ability to recover from injury, a recent study in laboratory animals shows. The results have implications for the effects of environmental lead exposure on brain injuries.

Full article: click here

High-tech helmets reveal new information about the impact of hard hits to the head (Dec 17)

High-tech helmets worn by some University of North Carolina football players over the 2004 to 2006 seasons yielded new data that challenges conventional theories about these mild traumatic brain injuries.

Full article: click here

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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

The Winter 2008 (17.1) 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:

Evidence of Changes After MTBI
New Brain Stimulation Technique
Case Study: A Dancer’s Return
Stem Cells Improve Memory
Proteins Key to Brain Function
2008 Conference Schedule
CNS Programs and Services

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12/28/07 Relationships among premorbid alcohol use, acute intoxication, and early functional status after traumatic brain injury
12/28/07 Effect of severity of post-traumatic confusion and its constituent symptoms on outcome after traumatic brain injury
12/27/07 Marked improvement in adherence to traumatic brain injury guidelines in United States trauma centers
12/26/07 Functional brain injury rehabilitation: Survivor experiences reported by families and professionals
12/26/07 The Frontal Systems Behaviour Scale (FrSBe) as a predictor of community integration following a traumatic brain injury
12/26/07 Suicidality in people surviving a traumatic brain injury: Prevalence, risk factors and implications for clinical management
12/26/07 Alcohol and drug use following traumatic brain injury: A prospective study
12/26/07 Study suggests some brain injuries reduce the likelihood of post-traumatic stress disorder
12/26/07 Epidemiology and prevention of head injuries: literature review
12/21/07 Prospective evaluation of oro-pharyngeal dysphagia after severe traumatic brain injury
12/19/07 Brain-injured war veterans show a faster decline in cognitive functioning as they age
12/19/07 The association of coagulopathy and traumatic brain injury in patients with isolated head injury
12/18/07 Neurotransmitters In Biopolymers Stimulate Nerve Regeneration
12/18/07 Reliability and validity of Questionnaire for Neurobehavioral Disability following traumatic brain injury
12/18/07 Brain injury in a forensic psychiatry population
12/18/07 PTA testing, the westmead post traumatic amnesia scale and opiate analgesia: A cautionary note
12/18/07 Penetrating head injury from nailguns: A case series from New Zealand
12/17/07 Woodruff reports: Cutting-edge brain technology
12/14/07 Racial disparities in long-term functional outcome after traumatic brain injury
12/14/07 Hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury (HIBI) after cardiopulmonary arrest
12/14/07 Psychiatric comorbidity following traumatic brain injury
12/14/07 Treatment efficacy of social communication skills training after traumatic brain injury: A randomized treatment and deferred treatment controlled trial
12/13/07 Using a cost-benefit analysis to estimate outcomes of a clinical treatment guideline: Testing the brain trauma foundation guidelines for the treatment of severe traumatic brain injury
12/13/07 A validation of the post concussion symptom scale in the assessment of complex concussion using cognitive testing and functional MRI
12/13/07 Change in cerebral autoregulation as a function of time in children after severe traumatic brain injury: a case series
12/13/07 Senate Takes Action on Traumatic Brain Injury
12/13/07 Brain injuries more common in men
12/12/07 Efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia associated with traumatic brain injury: A single-case experimental design
12/12/07 Cognitive complaints after mild traumatic brain injury: Things are not always what they seem
12/11/07 Concussions can last a lifetime
12/10/07 Hypothalamopituitary dysfunction following traumatic brain injury and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
12/10/07 Modulation of immune response by head injury
12/07/07 High-tech helmets reveal new information about the impact of hard hits to the head
12/07/07 Wii repairing brain damage
12/06/07 High-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid and serum in severe head injury: Relationship to tumor necrosis factor-? and interleukin-6
12/05/07 Observations on concussion
12/04/07 Multiple proteins implicated in neurodegenerative diseases accumulate in axons after brain trauma in humans
12/04/07 Lesional expression of the endogenous angiogenesis inhibitor endostatin/collagen XVIII following traumatic brain injury (TBI)
12/04/07 Jefferson neuroscientists find early lead exposure impedes recovery from brain injury
12/04/07 Rise in serious head injuries among snowboarders and skiers
12/04/07 Treatment efficacy of social communication skills training after traumatic brain injury: A randomized treatment and deferred treatment controlled trial
12/03/07 Neuropsychological evaluation in the diagnosis and management of sports-related concussion
11/30/07 Club drugs inflict damage similar to traumatic brain injury
11/30/07 Multiple stem cell treatments quickening pace of healing in brain injury patients
11/29/07 Screening substance abuse treatment clients for traumatic brain injury: prevalence and characteristics
11/29/07 Comparison of nursing home residents with and without traumatic brain injury: Use of the minimum data set
11/29/07 Nonconvulsive electrographic seizures after traumatic brain injury result in a delayed, prolonged increase in intracranial pressure and metabolic crisis
11/29/07 Stem-cell therapies for brain more complicated than thought

Read all the current news: 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.

Other products:
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Visit our new "Veterans and TBI" section of the website. There you will find links to important related websites, PDF information pamphlets, and current news bulletins.

Latest additions:

News Items:
Brain-injured war veterans show a faster decline in cognitive functioning as they age (12.19.07)
Bill offers private TBI treatment, for some (12.14.07)
Understanding helps families, soldiers deal with brain injuries (12.11.07)

Visit the Veterans and TBI section:
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Read traumatic brain injury survivor case studies detailing injuries, rehabilitation, and outcomes.

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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

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

** 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

Jan 18-19
Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop
London, United Kingdom
0044 1276 472369
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

Feb 22-23
Insight Workshop
London, United Kingdom
0044 1276 472369
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

Feb 29- Mar 1
Brain Injury Association of Oregon Annual Conference
Portland, OR
503-413-7707
Email: biaor@biaoregon.org
Website: www.biaoregon.org

Feb 29 (2008)
A Quantum Leap from Brain Injury to Recovery
San Antonio, TX
210-614-4323
Email: etattini@alamoheadinjury.org
Website: www.alamoheadinjury.org

Mar 5-7
Best Practices In Brain Injury Service Delivery: XVI
Des Moines, IA
319-621-7078
Email: glauer@biaia.org
Website: www.biaia.org

Mar 8 (2008)
Brain Injury Association of Virginia 7th Annual Conference
Richmond, VA
804-355-5748
Email: michelle@biav.net

Mar 10-11
Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop
Auckland, New Zealand
Email: jan@iphltd.co.nz

Mar 17-18
Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop
Auckland, New Zealand
Email: jan@iphltd.co.nz

Mar 20-21
Brain Injury Association of Utah: Legal & Medical Conference
Salt Lake City, UT
801-484-2240
Email: biau@sisna.com
Website: www.biau.org

Mar 27-28 (2008)
Gateway to Hope and Healing
Linthicum Heights, MD
410-448-2924
Email: kantt@biamd.org
Website: www.biamd.org

Mar 27-29 (2008)
The Assessment and Treatment of TBI at War and at Home
New York, NY
212-947-7111 x562
nyatbi@nyatbi.net
nyatbi.net/Conference_2008.html

Mar 28
Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island Annual Conference
Warwick, RI
401-461-6599
Email: braininjuryctr@biaofri.org
Website: www.biausa.org/RI

Apr 2-4
TBI Litigation: Mastering the Science and Trial Strategies
Las Vegas, NV
Email: conferences@biausa.org

Apr 9-12 (2008)
The International Brain Injury Association's 7th World Congress on Brain Injury
Lisbon, Portugal
713-526-6900
Website: www.internationalbrain.org

Apr 10-13
AOTA Annual Conference
Long Beach, CA
301-652-2682
Website: www.aota.org

Apr 12-13
NORA Annual Conference
San Antonio, TX
866-222-3887

Jun 11-14
APTA Annual Conference
San Antonio, TX 703-684-2782

Email: svcctr@apta.org Website: www.apta.org

Jun 17-20
CMSA Annual Conference
Orlando, FL
501-225-2229
Email: cmsa@cmsa.org
Website: cmsa.org

Jun 20-21
Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop
London, United Kingdom
0044 1276 472 369
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

Jun 23-24
ANA Annual Conference
Washington, DC
301-628-5000
Email: convention@ana.org
Website: www.nursingworld.org

Aug 14-17
APA Annual Conference
Boston, MA
202-336-5500
Email: convention@apa.org
Website: www.apa.org/convention

Sep 5-6 (2008)
Evaluation & Treatment of Visual Perceptual Dysfunction in Adult Brain Injury
Peterborough, ON, Canada
705-741-3412
Email: info@mindworksgroup.ca
Website: www.mindworksgroup.ca

Sep 19-20
Understanding and Dealing with Behaviour Problems
London, United Kingdom
0044 1276 472 369
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

Oct 9-10
Brain Injury Association of Utah Annual Conference
Layton, UT
801-484-2240
Email: biau@sisna.com
Website: www.biau.org

Oct 10-11
Advanced Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop: Attention & Information Processing
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Email: ursa.cizman@ir-rs.si

Nov 21-22
Advanced Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop: Attention & Information Processing
London, United Kingdom
0044 1276 472 369
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

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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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