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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 1,650 pages of information, materials, education and resources about the brain, brain injury and TBI rehabilitation for survivors, families and professionals.

For more information about CALBIA, the upcoming conference, and how to become a member of this important organization please click here

Synthetic Blood Reaches First Half of Traumatic Brain Injury Trial (May 8)

Study to demonstrate Oxycyte's ability to increase brain oxygen tension and favorably affect other brain chemistries that impact clinical outcome in patients suffering severe head injury.

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Brain On A Chip: Nerve Tissue Interfaced With A Computer Chip (June 12)

For the first time, scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich coupled living brain tissue to a chip equivalent to the chips that run computers.

Full article: click here

Potential new treatment strategy for brain and spinal cord damage (June 26)

Researchers have identified several new compounds that could play a role in preventing or treating dementia and other degenerative conditions of the nervous system.

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The Summer 2006 (15.3) issue of the Inside View quarterly newsletter is still 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).

Summer Issue Table of Contents:

Why Injured Children Recover
Brain Damage Linked to Heart Attacks
Case Study: RA
Spurring Nerve Regeneration
CALBIA Brain Injury Conference
2006 Conference Schedule
About CNS Services

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06/30/06 Hypopituitarism after acute brain injury
06/29/06 Concussion should never be ignored
06/27/06 Evaluation of the errorless learning technique in children with traumatic brain injury
06/27/06 Effects of environmental demands on locomotion after traumatic brain injury
06/26/06 Doctors make headway on soccer concussions
06/26/06 Neurons self-organise to make brain chips
06/26/06 Nerves stretched to new limits
06/19/06 Practical and theoretical considerations in designing rehabilitation trials: The DVBIC cognitive-didactic versus functional-experiential treatment study experience
06/19/06 Constraint-based therapies as a proposed model for cognitive rehabilitation
06/19/06 Prehospital evaluation and management of traumatic brain injury in children
06/19/06 Treatment of post-TBI executive dysfunction: Application of theory to clinical practice
06/19/06 Self-regulation and goal theories in brain injury rehabilitation
06/19/06 Implications of basic science research for brain injury rehabilitation: A focus on intact learning mechanisms
06/19/06 Two approaches to behavior disorder after traumatic brain injury
06/16/06 Direct transport within an organized state trauma system reduces mortality in patients with severe traumatic brain injury
06/15/06 Post-traumatic epilepsy: An overview
06/14/06 Clinical analysis of seven patients of crushing head injury
06/13/06 The role of tissue oxygen monitoring in patients with acute brain injury
06/12/06 Psychosocial outcomes 1-7 years after comprehensive milieu-oriented neurorehabilitation: The role of pre-injury status
06/12/06 Assessment of family needs following acquired brain injury in Saskatchewan
06/09/06 Wearing a bicycle helmet can reduce serious head injury by 85%
06/08/06 Sports concussion
06/08/06 Context-sensitive cognitive-behavioural supports for young children with TBI: A replication study
06/08/06 Neurobehavioural deficits after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)
06/07/06 Troops risk undetected brain injury
06/07/06 Functional reintegration of prefrontal neural networks for enhancing recovery after brain injury
06/05/06 Drug therapies for cognitive disorders - rehabilitating the brain
06/01/06 A personal intervention substance abuse treatment approach: Substance abuse treatment in a least restrictive residential model
06/01/06 EMA assessment of tongue-jaw co-ordination during speech in dysarthria following traumatic brain injury
06/01/06 Traumatic brain injury among Australian prisoners: Rates, recurrence and sequelae
06/01/06 Utility of Glasgow Coma Scale-Extended in symptom prediction following mild traumatic brain injury
06/01/06 UFOV performance and driving ability following traumatic brain injury
06/01/06 Working memory and proverb comprehension in adolescents with traumatic brain injury: A preliminary investigation
06/01/06 The structure of functional and community outcomes following traumatic brain injury
06/01/06 Domains of a TBI minimal data set: Community reintegration phase
06/01/06 Metabolism and nutrition in patients with moderate and severe traumatic brain injury: A systematic review
06/01/06 The impact of mild developmental learning difficulties on neuropsychological recovery from head trauma
06/01/06 Feedback of brain-imaging findings: Effect on impaired awareness and mood in acquired brain injury
06/01/06 Dysautonomia and heart rate variability following severe traumatic brain injury
06/01/06 The incidence of visual perceptual impairment in patients with severe traumatic brain injury
06/01/06 The development of the therapeutic working alliance, patients' awareness and their compliance during the process of brain injury rehabilitation
06/01/06 MR imaging of head trauma: Visibility of contusions and other intraparenchymal injuries in early and late stage
06/01/06 The use of hypertonic saline for treating intracranial hypertension after traumatic brain injury
06/01/06 The predictive value of field versus arrival glasgow coma scale score and TRISS calculations in moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury
06/01/06 Concussions: It's a lot more than getting your bell rung
06/01/06 Sleeping pill may rouse coma patients
06/01/06 Descriptive epidemiology of concussion
06/01/06 Prehospital intubation for patients with severe head injury: More is not necessarily better
06/01/06 Evaluation of mild head injury in a pediatric population
06/01/06 Lead exposure leads to brain cell loss and damage years later
06/01/06 Critical score of glasgow coma scale for pediatric traumatic brain injury
06/01/06 ReGen Therapeutics says zolpidem reverses effects of severe brain injury
06/01/06 Brain Injury Awareness Week 11- 17 June 2006
06/01/06 New federally funded research program aims to improve survival from severe trauma

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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

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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

Jul 18-Jul 22
5th International Symposium for Hyperbaric Oxygenation and the Recoverable Brain
Fort Lauderdale, FL
877-259-7837
Email: sharon.phillips@hbo2006.com
Web: www.hbo2006.com

Aug 2-4
7th Annual University of California Neurotrauma Conference
Carmel, CA
831-624-2888
www.quaillodge.com

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

Sep 1-2
State of the Art Medical and Rehabilitative Care in Brain Injury:
Clinical and Legal Implications
Napa, CA
661-872-4903
Email: calbiainfo@yahoo.com
Web: www.calbia.org

Sep 9
Pikes Peak Challenge Hike for Brain Injury Awareness
Colorado Springs, CO
574-1634
rhonda@pikespeakchallenge.com
www.pikespeakchallenge.com

Sep 14-16
2006 Brain Injury Conference of the Americas
Miami, FL
703-960-6500
www.nabis.org/articles/conference.shtml

Sep 15-16
Understanding & Dealing with Behavior Problems
Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom
www.braintreetraining.co.uk

Sep 21-22
Brain Injury Association of Indiana Annual Conference
Indianapolis, IN
317-356-7722
info@biai.org
www.biausa.org/Indiana

Sep 28-30
Brain Injury Association of Colorado Annual Conference
Vail, CO
303-355-9969 ext. 8
Email: biacolo@aol.com
Web: www.biacolorado.org

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

Oct 4-6
Brain Injury Association of Missouri - Professional Conference
Lake of the Ozarks, MO
314-426-4024
Email: sgee@biamo.org
Web: www.biamo.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 6-7
Brain Injury Association of Oregon Annual Conference
Portland, OR
503-413-7707
Email: biaor@biaoregon.org

Oct 6-7
Brain Injury Association of Illinois Annual Conference
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
312-726-5699
Email: info@biail.org
Web: www.biail.org

Oct 7
Brain Injury Association of Missouri - Family Seminar
Lake of the Ozarks, MO
314-426-4024
Email: sgee@biamo.org
Web: www.biamo.org

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

Oct 12
5th Annual NeuroRehab Conference
Loma Linda, CA
760-248-9130
Email: lmosley@neuroskills.com

Oct 26
BIAN Conference 2006
Thorold, ON
905 984-5058
bianstaf@niagara.com
www.niagara.com/bian/

Nov 23-24
Toronto ABI Network Conference
Toronto, ON
416-597-3422 X3961
Email: conference@abinetwork.ca
Web: www.abinetwork.ca/conference2006/

Dec 8-9
Advanced Cognitive Rehab Workshop
Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom
www.braintreetraining.co.uk

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

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

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