Pillion riders on motorcycle more vulnerable to traumatic brain injuries, says study
Traumatic brain injuries were the most common type of injury for drivers and passengers, the study found. But passengers experienced this more often, in 40 percent of cases, compared with 36 percent of cases for drivers, the researchers report in JAMA Surgery.
Dec 13, 2017, 16:28 PM IST
Understanding brain injuries made easy: World's tiniest hammer created!
The knowledge gained by these experiments could pave the way toward a better understanding of neural conditions such as Alzheimer's disease as well as traumatic brain injury.
Feb 05, 2017, 14:54 PM IST
Attention parents! Childhood head injury may up mental illness, mortality risk
The findings showed that people who had experienced a single mild, moderate or severe brain injury during childhood were at twice the risk of being admitted to hospital as a mental health inpatient.
Aug 25, 2016, 15:59 PM IST
Long-term damage seen from brain injuries: large study
The study in the journal PLOS Medicine included some 100,000 children and adolescents in Sweden who were born between 1973 and 1985 and had sustained at least one traumatic brain injury, or TBI, before the age of 25.
Aug 24, 2016, 00:42 AM IST
Wireless, dissolvable sensors to soon monitor brain
A team of neurosurgeons and engineers has developed wireless brain sensors that monitor pressure and temperature inside the brain and then are absorbed by the body so that there is no need for surgery to remove the devices.
Jan 19, 2016, 15:11 PM IST
