Promising developments in treating Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
From Captains Journal is news on diagnosing TBI and treatment. This is very promising and will benefit not only our troops but also those civilians.
“This is still in the research stage,” Bullock said. “But the idea is that you could take sample and know whether the person has had a brain injury, how severe it is, and whether there’s ongoing brain damage from hour to hour based on the biomarkers present in the blood.”
Once doctors know TBI has happened, treatment can begin. One of the most promising areas of research in treating TBI is in the field of neuroprotection, essentially finding substances that can protect neurons and give them an extra line of defense against secondary damage.
The only thing I’d worry with about this is the possibility of false negatives. That could be devastating to a person, if there are not enough biomarkers to trigger the positive result and the TBI goes untreated. It would be a remarkably non-invasive diagnostic tool, so we’ll follow it closely at www.brainandspinalcord.org
Comment by brainandspinalcord.org — July 28, 2008 @ 9:29 pm