Vasospasm in Cerebral Inflammation by Michael Eisenhut

“…All forms of cerebral inflammation as found in bacterial meningitis, cerebral malaria, brain injury, and subarachnoid haemorrhage have been associated with vasospasm of cerebral arteries and arterioles. …”
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Impact of Congenital Heart Disease on Brain Development and Neurodevelopmental Outcome by Mary T. Donofrio, An N. Massaro

“…While continuing to improve short-term morbidity and mortality is an important goal, recent and ongoing research has focused on defining the impact of CHD on brain development, minimizing postnatal brain injury, and improving long-term outcomes. This paper will review the impact that CHD has on the developing brain of the fetus and infant. …”
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Melatonin and Ischemic Stroke: Mechanistic Roles and Action by Syed Suhail Andrabi, Suhel Parvez, Heena Tabassum

“…We have previously reviewed the neuroprotective effect of melatonin in various models of brain injury like traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. …”
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Hypomania, Depression, Euthymia: New Evidence in Parkinson’s Disease by Margherita Canesi, Sara Lavolpe, Viviana Cereda, Alessandra Ranghetti, Roberto Maestri, Gianni Pezzoli, Maria Luisa Rusconi

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Efficient and Fast Differentiation of Human Neural Stem Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Cell Therapy by Xinxin Han, Liming Yu, Jie Ren, Min Wang, Zhongliang Liu, Xinyu Hu, Daiyu Hu, Yihong Chen, Li Chen, Ying Zhang, Yuehua Liu, Xiaoqing Zhang, Hua He, Zhengliang Gao

“…Stem cell-based therapies have been used for repairing damaged brain tissue and helping functional recovery after brain injury. Aberrance neurogenesis is related with brain injury, and multipotential neural stem cells from human embryonic stem (hES) cells provide a great promise for cell replacement therapies. …”
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Basic Newborn Life Support (BNLS) for members of the general public in natural disaster and conflict areas: A PHAID (PreHospital Aid) initiative by Abdul Qader Tahir Ismail

“…At birth, ~10% of babies do not breathe and require intervention, without which, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (brain injury due to starvation of blood and/or oxygen) and multiorgan damage can occur. …”
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Preservation of Bilateral Corticospinal Projections from Injured Hemisphere After Perinatal Stroke by Cameron P. Casey, Ellen N. Sutter, Alina Grimaldo, Kellie M. Collins, Jose Guerrero-Gonzalez, Ryan M. McAdams, Douglas C. Dean, Bernadette T. Gillick

“…Background: Perinatal brain injury is a leading cause of developmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy. …”
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Microfluidic Cultures of Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons for Assessing Retrograde Cell Death by Live Imaging by Srestha Dasgupta, Mansi Pandya, Wilma Friedman

“…The in vitro compartmental culture system of BFCNs that allows live imaging may be applied to investigate various effects of axon- or soma-specific stimuli that affect BFCN health, maintenance, and death, to model events that occur in the context of brain injury and neurodegenerative disorders.…”
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Glycyrrhizin Attenuates Toll Like Receptor-2, -4 and Experimental Vasospasm in a Rat Model by Chih-Zen Chang, Shu-Chuan Wu, Aij-Lie Kwan

“…It corresponds to SAH induced early brain injury. These findings offer credit to the antivasospastic effect of glycyrrhizin and its effect on SAH induced early brain injury.…”
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Canadian Occupational Performance Measure Supported by Talking Mats: An Evaluation of the Clinical Utility by Vita Hagelskjær, Mette Krohn, Pia Susanne Christensen, Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen

“…Some clients with cognitive and communicative impairments after a brain injury are unable to participate in the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) without support. …”
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An Emotion-Driven Vocal Biomarker-Based PTSD Screening Tool by Thomas F. Quatieri, Jing Wang, James R. Williamson, Richard DeLaura, Tanya Talkar, Nancy P. Solomon, Stefanie E. Kuchinsky, Megan Eitel, Tracey Brickell, Sara Lippa, Kristin J. Heaton, Douglas S. Brungart, Louis French, Rael Lange, Jeffrey Palmer, Hayley Reynolds

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The Effect of Mechanical Ventilation on TASK-1 Expression in the Brain in a Rat Model by Buqi Na, Hong Zhang, Guangfa Wang, Li Dai, Guoguang Xia

“…Inflammation is probably not the main mechanism of ventilator-related brain injury.…”
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Neuroprotective Effect of DAHP via Antiapoptosis in Cerebral Ischemia by Yanhua Qin, Weiming Hu, Yang Yang, Zhiying Hu, Weiyun Li, Marong Fang

“…Aberrant production of nitric oxide following inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression has been implicated in cell death and contributes to ischemic brain injury. Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is an essential cofactor of NOS activity. …”
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Sensorineural Hearing Loss following Carbon Monoxide Poisoning by Joseph P. Pillion

“…A case study is presented of a 17-year-old male who sustained an anoxic brain injury and sensorineural hearing loss secondary to carbon monoxide poisoning. …”
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Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of King’s Parkinson’s Disease Pain Scale by Yeray González-Zamorano, Marcos Moreno-Verdú, Josué Fernández-Carnero, Jaime Herreros-Rodríguez, Juan Pablo Romero

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Protecting the Airway and the Physician: Lessons from 214 Cases of Endotracheal Intubation Litigation by Jean Daniel Eloy, Anna A. Pashkova, Molly Amin, Christy Anthony, Daisy Munoz, Yuriy Gubenko, Shivani Patel, Anna Korban, Andrea Perales, Peter F. Svider, Jean Anderson Eloy

“…The most common factors present included sustaining permanent deficits, including anoxic brain injury. The presence of this latter injury increased the likelihood of a case being resolved with payment. …”
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Assessing the Inter-Rater and Inter-Trial Reliability of the NeurOptics Pupillary Light Response-3000 Pupillometer by Deborah A Jehu, Lori A Bolgla, Samantha Armas, Forest Dutton

“…The device can be used in detecting and monitoring brain injury but should be limited to reliable measures only.…”
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Determinants and key indicators of concussion in combat sport athletes: a systematic review by José Raimundo Fernandes, Michele Andrade de Brito, Diego Valenzuela Pérez, Aparecido Pimentel Ferreira, Felipe José Aida, Esteban Aedo-Muñoz, Bianca Miarka, Ciro José Brito

“…The injuries found were divided into 27.2% traumatic brain injury and 72.8% concussion. According to the signs and symptoms identified, 55.2% were physical and 44.8% motivational. …”
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Correlations of inflammatory processes caused by cerebral stroke with the outcome of the disease by A. Vaitkus, J. Valinčiūtė, S. Gylytė

“…Negative influence of inflammatory cells and mediators in brain injury patients. All neuroinflammatory reactions and mediators play a negative role in initiating the pathological response to stroke and thus promote the development of inflammatory processes. …”
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The Effect of Concussion History on Lower Extremity Injury Risk in College Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Vanessa Ramirez, Ryan McCann, Eric Schussler, Jessica Martinez

“…The following search terms were used to identify relevant articles, \[“concussion” OR “brain injury” OR “mild traumatic brain injury” OR “mTBI”\] AND \[“lower extremity injury” OR “musculoskeletal injury”\]. …”
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