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Mild Brain Cooling after Head Injury Prevents Epileptic Seizures in Lab Study

By Guest PostDecember 25, 2012Healthannals of neurology, antiepileptic drugs, brain, brain damage, chronic, epilepsy, epileptic seizures, genetics, hallmark of epilepsy, head injury, inflammation, intracranial eeg, jeffrey g ojemann, john w miller, matthew d smyth, mechanisms, mild cooling, mock cooling, nancy r temkin, neuronal activity, peltier cells, raimondo d ambrosio, recurrent seizures, refrigeration, rodent model, spontaneous, steven m rothman, traumatic head injury

Mild cooling of the brain after a head injury prevents the later development of epileptic seizures, according to an animal study reported this month in the Annals of Neurology.

Epilepsy can result from genetics or brain damage. Traumatic head injury is the leading cause of acquired epilepsy in young adults. It is often difficult to manage with antiepileptic drugs. The mechanisms behind the onset of epileptic seizures after brain injury are not known . There is currently no treatment to cure it, prevent it, or even limit its severity. (more…)

PTSD Consortium

By Guest PostNovember 1, 2012Healthadult, afghanistan, americans, bad experience, behavior, behavioral epigenetic, brain, brain imaging, cambridge, car accident, cardiovascular disease, chemical change, combat troops, david diamond, delaware, diagnose, disorder, DNA, dna methylation, draper laboratory, gene, hormone level, Iraq, military, molecular change, molecular modification, objective biomarker, panic attack, posttraumatic, ptsd, rate, rodent model, south florida, stress, stress disorder, tania roth, trauma, university, victim, violent crime, war

Researchers seek better ways to diagnose, treat disorder

Tania Roth studies what happens to the brain when stress occurs early in life, seeking to pinpoint how those kinds of bad experiences can cause molecular changes to DNA.

Now, by participating in a national consortium of researchers, the assistant professor of psychology at the University of Delaware is hoping to use her expertise to contribute to a better understanding of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (more…)

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Mild Brain Cooling after Head Injury Prevents Epileptic Seizures in Lab Study

PTSD Consortium