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MU Professor Creates Resource for Helping People with Brain Injuries

COLUMBIA, Mo. ­­­– According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1.7 million people suffer traumatic brain injuries each year.  Stephanie Reid-Arndt, chair and assistant professor of health psychology in the University of Missouri School of Health Professions, has launched The Brain Injury Guide and Resources at https:// braininjuryeducation.com/ to provide a resource for people to understand traumatic brain injuries.

“Brain injuries aren’t visible like other injuries, and often, people with brain injuries can be misunderstood,” Reid-Arndt said.  “Direct results of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) include cognitive difficulties, changes in behavior or difficulty managing anger that are direct results of the brain injuries. Unfortunately, these symptoms are often misconstrued as willfully uncooperative behavior.” (more…)

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IBM Analytics Helps Medical Researchers Detect Complication In Stroke Patients

IBM Corporate Headquarters, Armonk NY. Image credit: IBM

LAS VEGAS, – 26 Oct 2010:

IBM today announced  a new project in which researchers at Columbia University Medical Center will utilize IBM’s streaming analytics technology to potentially detect severe complications in brain injured patients up to 48 hours earlier than traditional methods.  

For patients that have suffered a bleeding stroke from a ruptured brain aneurysm, recovery can involve serious complications.  One of the most severe and frequent complications is delayed ischemia, a life threatening condition in which the brain does not get enough blood to function properly.  Currently, detectable symptoms only appear once blood flood has been significantly reduced, forcing medical professionals to be reactive instead of preventative in their treatment. In 20 percent of patients with this complication, there are no observable symptoms at all and it is only after it is too late that their doctor realizes that the patient needed treatment.   (more…)

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