Remember our Veterans during this week especially! Please don't set off fireworks before or after the 4th! Read more here about how combat Veterans are coping with July fourth fireworks.

Deep brain stimulation is becoming very precise. This technique allows surgeons to place electrodes in almost any area of the brain, and turn them up or down — like a radio dial or thermostat — to correct dysfunction. Andres Lozano offers a dramatic look at emerging techniques, in which a woman with Parkinson's instantly stops shaking and brain areas eroded by Alzheimer's are brought back to life. (Filmed at TEDxCaltech.)

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When veteran Kevin Schmidt met his service dog Misty for the first time, he felt bonded to her almost immediately."When Misty came in the picture, my wife had written this letter and she had this one comment that really stuck out — she said, "The week that Kevin got Misty was the first time I saw him smile in years,'" Schmidt said. "I never thought about a service dog before I got Misty, and now I can't see what it would be like to be without her."


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Strategy-based cognitive training may help reduce symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, and improve neural health for traumatic brain injury patients, according to a new study from the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas. 

In the study, published recently in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, participants’ cognitive skills and psychological health improved after the training. 

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Over the past few years, it’s become widely known among the scientific community that traumatic brain injuries, or concussions as they’re more often called, can result in lasting physical and mental damage for the sufferer — a reality that only entered the public consciousness with the emergence of lawsuits filed against the NFL, alleging that they had ignored the evidence showing this when it came to their own players.


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A new MRI study has found distinct injury patterns in the brains of people with concussion-related depression and anxiety, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. The findings may lead the way to improved treatment and understanding of these common disorders, researchers said.

Post-concussion psychiatric disorders like depression, anxiety and irritability can be extremely disabling for those among the nearly 3.8 million people in the United States who suffer concussions every year. The mechanisms underlying these changes after concussion—also known as mild traumatic brain injury—are not sufficiently understood, and conventional MRI results in most of these patients are normal.


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