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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 1,400 pages of information, materials, education and resources about the brain, brain injury and TBI rehabilitation for survivors, families and professionals.

Doctors and Care Providers Often Underestimate the Full Impact of Head Injuries (Aug 8)

Doctors and other carers often overlook some important aspects of outcome amongst patients who have suffered head injuries, according to a new study.

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Roots of Epilepsy May Lie in Oft-Ignored Brain Cells (Aug 15)

Star-shaped brain cells that are often overlooked by doctors and scientists as mere support cells appear to play a key role in the development of epilepsy, researchers say.

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Link Between Alzheimer's Disease And Traumatic Brain Damage Clarified (Aug 22)

Not only do patients with major brain damage have more chance of developing Alzheimer's disease later on in life, their brains also often show plaques that strongly resemble those of Alzheimer patients.

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Studies Suggest 10% of High School Football Players Will Suffer a Concussion During This Coming Season (Aug 29)

With the high school football season just around the corner, coaches, parents and athletes need to focus on one of the most overlooked, misdiagnosed and least understood injuries that is sure to affect some of the 18,000 student-athletes who will strap on the pads this year: sport-related concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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Compounds Show Potential to Repair Central Nervous System Cells After Injury (Sep 6)

Two compounds have the potential to become new treatments that contribute to development and repair of central nervous system cells damaged by injury.

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The Summer 2005 (14.3) 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).

Summer Issue Table of Contents:

Walkathon for TBI
Patterns of Risk and Outcome
CBF With Female TBI
Predicting Outcome From Coma
Drug Helps Repair CNS
Portable Concussion Device
Hypothermia Safe for Treatment
Preventing Post-Trauma Damage
2005 Conference Schedule

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09/01/05 NeuroHealing Pharmaceuticals Announces IND Submission For NH001 To Improve The Outcome Of Patients In A Vegetative State Following A Traumatic Brain Injury
08/29/05 Synthetic Blood to Initiate Oxycyte Phase II Pilot Study in Traumatic Brain Injury
08/29/05 Journal of Neuroscience Study Shows Potential of Allon Therapeutics' Compounds to Protect Brain Cells
08/29/05 The Impact of Aeromedical Response to Patients With Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
08/29/05 Heart-Failure Patients Show Brain Injury Linked to Depression
08/29/05 Home Vision Therapy
08/29/05 Effect of Bacterial Meningitis Complicating Severe Head Trauma Upon Brain Microdialysis and Cerebral Perfusion
08/29/05 Arizona High School Football Players Will Suffer a Concussion During This Coming Season
08/29/05 Advanced Brain Injury Therapy Touted
08/19/05 Studying Brain Injury Mystery
08/18/05 Serum Neuron-specific Enolase as a Predictor of Short-term Outcome in Children with Closed Traumatic Brain Injury
08/18/05 Non-Declarative Memory in the Rehabilitation of Amnesia
08/17/05 British Scientists Create First Pure Brain Stem Cells
08/16/05 Study: Brain Slow to Repair
08/16/05 Link Between Alzheimer's Disease And Traumatic Brain Damage Clarified
08/15/05 Roots of Epilepsy May Lie In Oft-Ignored Brain Cells
08/15/05 Poor Prognosis for Infants With Traumatic Brain Injury
08/15/05 Memory Function After Resolution of Post-Traumatic Amnesia
08/15/05 Impact of Pyrexia on Neurochemistry and Cerebral Oxygenation After Acute Brain Injury
08/15/05 AORC Sponsors Detroit Event to Reduce Vehicle Brain Injuries
08/12/05 Multi-Disciplinary Rehabilitation for Acquired Brain Injury in Adults of Working Age
08/12/05 Head Circumference and Brain and Hippocampal Volume after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood
08/11/05 The McMaster Family Assessment Device and Clinical Rating Scale: Questionnaire vs Interview in Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury
08/11/05 Recognition of Emotion From Facial Expression Following Traumatic Brain Injury
08/11/05 The Impact of Head Injury Neurobehavioural Sequelae on Personal Relationships: Preliminary Findings
08/11/05 The High-Level Mobility Assessment Tool (HiMAT) for Traumatic Brain Injury. Part 2: Content Validity and Discriminability
08/11/05 Direct Clinician-Delivered Versus Indirect Family-Supported Rehabilitation of Children With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial
08/11/05 Convergent Validity of Self-Awareness Measures and Their Association with Employment Outcome in Adults Following Acquired Brain Injury
08/10/05 Monitoring Emergence from Coma Following Severe Brain Injury in an Octogenarian Using Behavioural Indicators, Electrophysiological Measures and Metabolic Studies: A Demonstration of the Potential for Good Recovery in Older Adults
08/10/05 Modafinil for the Treatment of Diminished Responsiveness in a Patient Recovering from Brain Surgery
08/10/05 Long-Term Outcome in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury is Significantly Influenced by Brainstem Involvement
08/10/05 Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo as the Cause of Dizziness in Patients After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Diagnosis and Treatment
08/10/05 Attentional and Processing Skills Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Early Childhood
08/09/05 Speech and language therapy for dysarthria due to non-progressive brain damage (Cochrane Review)
08/09/05 Self-Concept and Quality of Life Following Aquired Brain Injury: A Pilot Investigation
08/08/05 Sensory Gating Impairment in Development of Post-Concussive Symptoms in Mild Head Injury
08/08/05 Returning to Productive Activities: Perspectives of Individuals With Long-Standing Acquired Brain Injuries
08/08/05 Rehabilitation Outcomes of Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Anoxic Brain Injury: A Single Institution Experience
08/08/05 How The Brain Responds To Injury
08/04/05 Psychological and Adjustment Problems Due to Acquired Brain Lesions in Childhood: A Comparison Between Post-Traumatic Patients and Brain Tumour Survivors
08/04/05 Physiological Thresholds for Irreversible Tissue Damage in Contusional Regions Following Traumatic Brain Injury
08/04/05 Can We Abolish Skull X Rays for Head Injury?
08/03/05 Signs of Consciousness
08/03/05 Inference Comprehension of Adolescents with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Working Memory Hypothesis

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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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Sep 6-7
Encephalitis Explored - Assessment, Rehabilitation & Therapy
York University, UK
+44-(0)-1653-699599
Email: mail@encephalitis.info
Website: www.encephalitis.info/Professionals/Meetings.html

Sep 9-11
FACES 2005 Encephalitis Conference
Philadelphia, PA
604-980-2236
Email: wendystation@shaw.ca
Website: www.encephalitisglobal.com

Sep 17
Advanced Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop
Gatwick Airport, London, UK
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

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

Sep 22-24
Brain Injury: New Science, Best Practices and Future Innovations
Amelia Island, FL
703-960-6500
Email: conference@nabis.org
Website: www.nabis.org/public/nabisconf.shtml

Sep 29-30
Brain Injury Association of Michigan Annual Conference
Lansing, MI
810-229-5880
Website: 63.126.124.136/Michigan

Sep 29-30
Brain Injury Association of Ohio Annual Conference
Columbus, OH
614-481-7100
Website: www.biaoh.org

Sep 29-Oct 1
Brain Injury Association of Colorado Annual Conference
Vail, CO
303-355-9969
Email: biacolo@aol.com
Website: www.biacolorado.org

Sep 29-Oct 1
Brain Injury Association of Illinois Annual Conference
TBA
312-726-5699
Website: www.biausa.org/Illinois/bia.htm

Oct 1
Evaluatioin and Treatment of Mental Health Issues After TBI
Vail, CO
303-355-9969 ext 8
Email: biacolo@aol.com

Oct 3-4
Brain Injury Association of Missouri Annual Conference
Lake Ozark, MO
314-426-4024
Email: sgee@biamo.org
Website: www.biamo.org

Oct 5
4th Annual Loma Linda Brain Injury Conference
Loma Linda, CA
Email: lmosley@neuroskills.com

Oct 6-7
Brain Injury Association of Utah Annual Conference
Layton, UT
801-484-2240
Email: biau@sisna.com

Oct 7-8
Brain Injury Association of Idaho Annual Conference
Boise, ID
208-342-0999
Email: info@biaid.org

Oct 14-16
Brain Injury Association of Wyoming Annual Conference
Sheridan, WY
Brochure: click here

Oct 15-16
Annual Brain Injury Symposium
Miami, FL
786-596-3349
Email: judyk@baptisthealth.net

Oct 20-21
Brain Injury Association of Florida Annual Conference
Coral Springs, FL
954-786-2400 ext 2
Email: biafadmin@biaf.org
www.biaf.org

Nov 3-4
Practical Strategies for Effectively Supporting, Treating, and Educating Families after TBI and other Neurological Disorders
Peterborough, Ontario
705-741-3412
Email: info@mindworksgroup.ca
Website: www.mindworksgroup.ca

Nov 12
Brain Injury Association of Virginia Annual Conference
Richmond, VA
Email: michelle@biav.net
Website: www.biav.net

Nov 19
Information Processing: Advanced Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop
Gatwick Airport, London, UK
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

Dec 3
Cognitive Rehabilitation for Physical Therapists
Gatwick Airport, London, UK
Email: enquiries@braintreetraining.co.uk
Website: www.braintreetraining.co.uk

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

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

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