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		<title>High School Athletes Continue To Play Despite Concussion Symptoms</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/07/high-school-athletes-dont-report-concussion-symptoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 09:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High school athletes experience their fair share of dangerous head injuries during high-impact sports play, but new research shows many high school football players won&#8217;t bring their concussion symptoms to their coaches&#8217; attention. Despite the fact that the students reported they were aware of the risks associated with concussions from football, a little more than half of 120 high school players surveyed said they continue to play. (MORE: Even Football Players Without Concussions Show Signs of Brain Injury) Even though they understood the dangers, 53% said they would &#8220;always or sometimes continue to play with a headache sustained from an injury.&#8221; Just 54% said they would &#8220;always or sometimes report symptoms of a concussion to their coach,&#8221; according to the study, which was presented on May 6 at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Among the surveyed players, 30 reported suffering a concussion and 82 reported having concussion symptoms and risks explained to them. The majority of the high schoolers indicated that they understood that headaches, dizziness, difficulty with memory, difficulty concentrating and light and sound sensitivity were all risk factors for a concussion after a high-impact hit. &#8220;We aren&#8217;t yet at the point where we can make specific policy recommendations for sports teams, but this study raises concerns that young athletes may not report symptoms of concussions,&#8221; said lead study author Dr. Brit Anderson, an emergency medicine fellow at Cincinnati Children&#8217;s Hospital Medical Center, in a statement. &#8220;Other approaches, such as an increased use of sideline screening by coaches or athletic trainers, might be needed to identify injured athletes.&#8221; (MORE: Study Details How Brain Injury from Concussions Progresses) Diagnosing concussions among high-impact sports athletes has gained more attention in the past couple years as more research has come out showing a high prevalence of memory loss in NFL players. Concussions can be hard to confirm because the diagnosis relies heavily on players&#8217; self-reported symptoms. Brain scans are useful in diagnosing injury, but they&#8217;re also pricey. Players&#8217; pride and desire to stay on the field may also prevent them from reporting their symptoms, even if they suspect they have a concussion. Researchers and clinicians are<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86187&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bombings?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/23/cte/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. But the brain that was home to his angry mind remains, and in this case that may mean something. Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer who won the New England Golden Gloves competition as recently as 2009 and 2010. That speaks to a young man with a healthy sense of discipline and focus, and if he had a violent streak, it was violence well-channeled. But his sport of choice suggests the possibility of something else too: traumatic brain injury. As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what&#8217;s known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear. Roughly 4,000 former NFL players and 2,000 of their spouses are currently suing the league, claiming that the perils of head injuries were never explained to them and, indeed, that the players were pushed to get back on the field even when it was clear that they had suffered concussions. It was inevitable, then that questions would be raised about  whether Tsarnaev&#8217;s brain may have been similarly traumatized during the years he boxed, and if there had indeed been damage, did that spark his murderous behavior? The answer is a likely yes to the first part and a likely no to the second. (MORE: Terrorists and Mass Shooters: More Similar Than We Thought) Boxers are perhaps the best-studied victims of CTE, with the consequences of consistent trauma to the head described initially as &#8220;punch drunk,&#8221; but emerging as CTE in the 1950s, says Dr. Robert Stern, cofounder of the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy. The term &#8220;better describes a neurodegenerative disease caused, at least in part, by repetitive brain trauma,&#8221; he says.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85139&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Helmets and Mouthguards Don&#8217;t Prevent Concussions</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/13/helmets-and-mouthguards-dont-prevent-concussions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain Injury]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A global consensus report provides new guidance on diagnosing and treating concussions. As concerns about concussions among football players continues to capture the attention of doctors as well as sports officials, an international team of researchers released an update to the Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport. It&#8217;s the fourth since the original report was developed in Vienna in 2001 to raise public awareness of the risks of concussions. Researchers and clinicians from around the globe presented the latest findings on brain injury and long term damage from concussions occurring during sports, over a two-day meeting held in Zurich, Switzerland last November. A panel of 32 experts then drafted the Consensus based on the research, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. (MORE: Even Football Players Without Concussions Show Signs of Brain Injury) Written as a guide for athletic trainers, doctors and health care providers, the statement clarifies the definition of a concussion to emphasize that loss of consciousness isn&#8217;t necessary to remove players from a game; symptoms can include headaches, memory loss and slow reaction times, immediately after the trauma to the head. Later symptoms could also include irritability and sleep disturbances. New advice in the Consensus states that children should not return to the field to play on the same day they experience a potential concussion, an acknowledgment that it may take longer for kids to recuperate from blows to the head than adults because their neural connections are still developing. (MORE: Study Details How Brain Injury from Concussions Progresses) &#8220;Concussions are an evolving injury,&#8221; explains author Dr. Willem Meeuwisse, leader of the University of Calgary’s Brain Injury Initiative.&#8221;When you look at it from the moment it occurs to hours and even days later, it tends to change. That&#8217;s why, &#8216;when in doubt, sit them out,&#8217; works.&#8221; Additionally, the authors say there is a lack of evidence that mouth-guards and helmets prevent concussions. These pieces of equipment can protect against injuries to the head and face, but likely do little to ward off the more serious internal damage from a concussion. In fact, they may give players have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82149&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even Football Players Without Concussions Show Signs of Brain Injury</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/07/even-football-players-without-concussions-show-signs-of-brain-injury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a concussion may not be the only indicator of brain damage among football players. A recent study from the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Rochester reports that football players may experience long-term brain changes even if they haven&#8217;t suffered a concussion. The researchers studied 67 college football players and after each game, conducted brain scans and blood tests, to determine the extent of brain injury. In the blood, the researchers searched for S100B, a protein that is involved in regulating nerve growth that has been associated with certain neurological conditions such as Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, epilepsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) as well as certain cancers. They found that the more hits the players received to the head, the higher the level of S100B that seeps into the blood stream after an injury. (MORE: Study Details How Brain Injury from Concussions Progresses) None of these hits were classified as a concussion, but four players showed symptoms of an autoimmune response that is linked to brain problems like epilepsy and dementia. HealthDay writes: If this protein is repeatedly released into the bloodstream, the body&#8217;s immune system will eventually take notice of the protein. And, because it&#8217;s a protein not normally seen in the blood, the immune system may see it as a foreign invader, much like bacteria or viruses. If the immune system feels it&#8217;s a dangerous foreign substance, it will create antibodies against the protein, presumably to destroy it, which is what these researchers found. Diagnosing brain injury in high-impact sports players is receiving more attention in recent months given the growing body of research documenting the high prevalence of memory loss among NFL players. Concussions are difficult to diagnose since they rely heavily on the player&#8217;s symptoms and pricey brain scans. The sports culture also discourages players from reporting their symptoms out of pride and the desire to keep playing and not watch from the sidelines. But the dangers of head injuries, and their potentially long-lasting effects, are prompting more doctors and players, not just in the NFL but in other sports as well, to take the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=81770&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Links Stronger Necks to Fewer Concussions</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/22/study-links-stronger-necks-to-fewer-concussions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sturdy neck can protect the head from blows, according to researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health. Read about the findings on our companion blog, Keeping Score.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=80768&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Reveals How Concussions Can Trigger Depression</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/17/study-reveals-how-concussions-can-trigger-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two new research projects – one published this month and another that is still preliminary – suggest why some professional football players, particularly those that get concussions, may be more vulnerable to developing depression. For both studies, researchers focused on a group of 34 retired NFL players, aged 41 to 79 and living in north Texas. The first study, published in the journal JAMA Neurology, found that former players who are depressed or cognitively impaired typically have noticeable abnormalities in a specific component of their brain known as the white matter, which is the cumulative mass of insulated nerve fibers that connect one neuron to another. In a related analysis that will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in March, players who reported a higher number of career concussions also tended to exhibit more depressive symptoms. MORE: Kids&#8217; Concussion Symptoms May Persist for a Year Together, the studies, sponsored by the BrainHealth Institute for Athletes at the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas, point to changes to the brain&#8217;s white matter as a potential link between concussions and depression. &#8220;People will sometimes want to write off a lot of depression among these [former players] with psychological explanations: They’re no longer playing, and being the center of attention, those kinds of things,&#8221; says Kyle Womack, an author on both of the studies, and an assistant professor of neurology and neurotherapeutics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. However, Womack says, the findings implicating white matter are so strong and that he believes it&#8217;s unlikely that lost social status is the primary reason for the ex-players&#8217; grief. MORE: The Problem With Football: How to Make It Safer In the first study, the researchers compared depression scores of 34 retired NFL players with those of 29 similar people with no history of concussion. On average, the former football players reported having experienced four concussions, and they were more likely than the people without concussions to show depressive symptoms, not just in their<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78059&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unlikely Partners: Grateful Dead Drummer Teams with Scientist to Study How Rhythm Heals</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/26/unlikely-partnersgrateful-dead-drummer-teams-with-scientist-to-study-how-rhythm-heals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s grandmother descended into the depths of dementia, she stopped speaking. Hart was caring for her at his home, but was on the verge of entering her in hospice.Then he played for her. Although she had not uttered a word for nearly a year, when he began to pound out a soft, but insistent beat, she smiled. Then, a tear came to her eye and she said clearly, over and over, “Mickey.” “That was one of the key experiences in my life, which showed me what the power of rhythm can do,” Hart says, recalling the incident, which occurred in the early 80s. “Rhythm was reconnecting her to the world that was fading away.” Our lives, it turns out, depend deeply on rhythm. There’s the obvious lub-dub of the heart, where one lapse in essential time-keeping can be fatal; then there is the clear patterning of women’s monthly cycles. But less visible are the daily and nightly peaks and valleys of hormone levels, the critical rhythms that shape language and nonverbal communication and the ebb and flow of constantly thrumming and pulsing nerve activity in the brain. “Brain activity fluctuates— it oscillates in rhythmic patterns and different rhythms are represented throughout the brain in terms of how its activity changes over time,” says Adam Gazzaley, director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the University of California San Francisco. Gazzaley and Hart have collaborated to try to understand the neuroscience of rhythm and to plumb these patterns for potentially therapeutic uses. This fall, they spoke together at the annual conference of the AARP, using the latest imaging technology to broadcast images of Hart’s brain rhythms live. “It was very profound,” Hart says of seeing his brain rhythms displayed as he stood on stage, “It was me. That’s what really makes me, me. It’s also what makes us, us. It’s rhythm central, it is life itself.” For Hart, however, the experience with his grandmother left a deeper impression unlike anything he had witnessed before, despite his thousands<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=76698&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Migraines Linked to Brain Lesions in Women</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/14/migraines-linked-to-brain-lesions-in-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it&#8217;s not clear what causes migraines, one of their lasting effects may be brain lesions triggered by poor blood flow. Researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that women, who are three times as likely as men to experience migraines, may suffer from other consequences of the painful headaches apart from the common symptoms of nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light. Women who have migraines are twice as likely as non-sufferers to show structural changes, or lesions, due to inadequate blood flow in certain parts of the brain. The role that these lesions may play in health, however, still aren&#8217;t obvious. &#8220;Patients should not live with the idea that each migraine attack is potentially &#8216;damaging&#8217; their brains,&#8221; corresponding study author Mark Kruit says in an email to TIME discussing the results. &#8220;Patients should know that the [volume] of changes is small, and that they are not related to worse cognitive function. [T]here is no need for changes in the way migraine patients are treated, based on the study results.&#8221; (MORE: Study: Migraines May Raise the Risk of Depression in Women) Previous MRI brain scans of migraine patients found unusual &#8220;hyperintensities&#8221; — bright areas suggesting areas of poor blood flow. But those studies could not determine which came first — whether people with migraines tend to develop brain lesions, or whether the brain lesions trigger migraines. Those studies also could not track whether each successive migraine would expand the size of the brain lesions, leading to worsening symptoms. So Kruit, a radiologist and neurologist working in Leiden in the Netherlands, joined with a Dutch team of doctors to study migraine in nearly 300 adults living in that country. Most of the participants suffered from migraines, but some did not. Researchers scanned the brains of all of the participants at the start of the study, in 2000, and again in 2009. By comparing the images taken in the same year, Kruit and his colleagues could measure differences in brain lesions between the migraine patients and those who did<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=73663&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High Blood Pressure a Danger for People as Young as 40</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/02/high-blood-pressure-a-danger-for-people-as-young-as-40/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High blood pressure may lead to brain injury and to premature brain aging, even among people with only slightly elevated readings. Brain scientists from the Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Center at the University of California, Davis, are studying the links between systolic blood pressure (that&#8217;s the first number in a reading, and measures the pressure of the blood on the vessels as the heart beats) and various indicators of brain injury among middle-aged adults. In their latest work, published in Lancet Neurology, the scientists report &#8220;a subtle, negative effect&#8221; of high systolic blood pressure on the structural integrity of the brain&#8217;s white matter, and a similar negative effect of elevated blood pressure on the volume of grey matter in the brain. (MORE: A Salty Diet is a Recipe for High Blood Pressure in Kids Too) That means that by age 40, the brain of a person with hypertension or clinically high blood pressure of 140/90 mm Hg, looks 7.2 years older than the brain of a person with normal blood pressure, according to indicators of brain function and anatomy that the researchers measured. And it&#8217;s not just those with clinical hypertension who have to worry; the team saw changes in brain structure among people with normal blood-pressure readings or with systolic readings just slightly higher than normal. The higher the systolic blood pressure, it seems, the greater the signs of brain damage. These findings are consistent with previous research that links hypertension to brain damage. But this is the first study to show an association beginning so early in life. This study finds the same kind of structural injuries that have been linked to cognitive decline and increased risk of dementia among elderly people, but instead among those in just their 30s and 40s. (MORE: Blood Pressure Only Slightly High? You May Still Be at Risk of Stroke) &#8220;The message here is really clear: People can influence their late-life brain health by knowing and treating their blood pressure at a young age, when you wouldn&#8217;t necessarily be thinking about it,&#8221; said Dr.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=73035&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Breakthrough at Last for Spinal-Cord-Injury Research?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/31/a-breakthrough-at-last-for-spinal-cord-injury-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early winter of 1988, I traveled to Miami to visit Marc Buoniconti. He was 24 years old at the time, and in many ways looked quite fit — full of energy, chattering on about his plans, exactly what you&#8217;d expect from a person his age. But Buoniconti wasn&#8217;t fit. He was in a wheelchair and hadn&#8217;t moved a muscle below his shoulders since fracturing his spine between the third and fourth cervical vertebrae in a college football game in October 1985. By the time I met him, he had already done the grueling work of weaning himself from his respirator — training new muscles and learning new techniques to breathe on his own. And that freedom allowed him to assume the job of point man for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, an organization co-founded by Buoniconti; his father, NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti; the University of Miami; and a handful of local surgeons. &#8220;I was never in denial about my injury,&#8221; Marc Buoniconti told me at the time. &#8220;When you can&#8217;t move, you move through that phase pretty fast.&#8221; But the absence of denial did not mean the absence of hope. Buoniconti was adamant that he would dedicate his life to getting out of his chair and helping the 300,000 other Americans living with spinal-cord injury do the same. In the meantime, he&#8217;d keep himself as fit as possible. &#8220;When the cure comes,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I plan to be ready.&#8221; Buoniconti is now a 45-year-old man with a degree in psychology, still with the Miami Project — and still in a wheelchair. But the cure he spoke of 27 years ago just got a very big step closer. On Tuesday morning, Miami Project doctors convened a press conference to announce that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had just granted them a green light to begin Phase 1 human trials for a new surgical technique in which nerve cells from the leg would be transplanted to the spine of newly paralyzed patients in the hope<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=65155&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lasting Effects of Neglect: Altered Brain Structure in Children</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/24/the-lasting-effects-of-neglect-altered-brain-structure-in-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids who are neglected, growing up without normal emotional and social interaction, have measurably different brain structure from other kids, according to a new study from researchers at Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital. The study compares kids raised in Romania&#8217;s infamous state-run orphanages with kids raised in normal Romanian family homes at the same time. MRI brain scans show that children raised in run-down institutions — typically with just one adult supervisor per 12 young kids — developed measurably lower grey matter volume and white matter volume in the cortex of the brain than children who grew up among their families. However, children who spent their infancy in the orphanages but were then delivered to high-quality foster care as small children fared somewhat better than those left behind in the institutions. Those kids&#8217; cortical white matter was no different from that among children who had always lived with families, the study shows. But the foster kids still had lower grey matter volume than normal. The findings do show &#8220;the potential for developmental &#8216;catch-up&#8217; in white matter growth, even following extreme environmental deprivation,&#8221; the study authors write. And that&#8217;s cause for optimism: it shows that some of the damage due to early childhood neglect can be undone. White matter is important because it&#8217;s responsible for much of the connectivity between different regions of the brain; it&#8217;s the brain&#8217;s &#8220;information superhighway,&#8221; as one of the researchers puts it. But growth of grey matter — the part of the brain thought to control sensory perception and muscle control — tends to happen during concentrated periods of childhood, not all throughout childhood like white matter growth does. This may be why grey matter development seems harder to catch up on later, the authors write in their paper. These latest findings about the long-term consequences of neglect are only the latest from a prolific research program known as the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP). Under the authoritarian rule of Nicolae Ceausescu, starting in the late 1960s, Romania enacted laws to encourage women to have at least five<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=64442&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Locked-In Syndrome’ Sufferer Says &#8216;Hello World&#8217; on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/18/locked-in-syndrome-sufferer-tony-nicklinson-takes-his-fight-to-die-onto-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anoosh Chakelian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, Tony Nicklinson, 57, suffered a stroke on a business trip that left him with locked-in syndrome. He is almost completely paralyzed and communicates through small head movements and eyeblinks. On June 13, using a computer that reads his movements, he sent his first tweet; today he has more than 21,000 followers on Twitter. Read the full story on Nicklinson and his campaign for the right to die on Newsfeed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=62192&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CT Scans in Childhood Can Triple the Risk of Cancer</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/07/ct-scans-in-childhood-can-triple-the-risk-of-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having multiple CT scans in childhood may triple the risk of certain cancers, according to a new study. In the first study of its kind, researchers from the U.S., U.K. and Canada worked for nearly 20 years, tracking cancer rates among children who had had CT scans during their first 15 years of life and comparing them to children who did not have the same exposure to radiation from the scans. Researchers found that children who had had two to three CT scans in childhood had triple the risk of later developing brain tumors, and children who had had five to 10 scans also had three times the risk of developing leukemia, a blood cancer. “We need to make sure that everyone understands that yes, we’ve shown a significantly increased risk of cancer,&#8221; says the study’s lead author, Mark Pearce, a senior researcher at the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University in the U.K., but adds that &#8220;the absolute risks are small.” (VIDEO: The Health Dangers of Radiation Exposure) Pearce and his colleagues relied on health data collected by hopsital radiology departments and the National Health Service in the U.K. They looked at 180,000 patients who had had at least one CT scan between 1985 and 2002, when they were younger than 22. Based on the number and types of scans that patients received, according to hospital records, the researchers estimated the dose of radiation — in milli-Grays (mGy) — absorbed by the brain and bone marrow of each patient. Then, the researchers tracked rates of cancer reported in the National Health Service registry between 1985 and 2008. To ensure that pre-existing conditions did not confound the results, the researchers excluded patients who had been diagnosed with cancer before their scans were taken. That left a population of otherwise healthy children who received scans for other reasons, the most common being trauma to the head from a fall or accident and infections of the abdomen, including appendicitis, that needed to be diagnosed with imaging. Among 176,587 patients, a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=61344&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Junior Seau&#8217;s Death Raises Familiar and Agonizing Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no getting inured to scenes like the one that unfolded in Oceanside, Calif., on May 2, where a crowd gathered and a mother wailed as the body of Junior Seau — the sunny, preternaturally good-natured veteran of three NFL teams — was carried out from his home to a coroner&#8217;s van, victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. He left no note. What made the loss of the 43-year-old Seau especially cruel was not just that he was a model citizen in a sport too often populated by on-field bounty hunters and off-field felons. It was also that this kind of thing has become drearily familiar: Ray Easterling, who played for the Atlanta Falcons in the 1970s; Dave Duerson of the Chicago Bears and New York Giants; and Owen Thomas of the University of Pennsylvania all committed suicide in the past two years. Other NFLers have died in violent driving incidents — Chris Henry of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2009 who tumbled from the back of a moving car while fighting with his girlfriend, who was behind the wheel; and Justin Strzelcyk of the Pittsburgh Steelers, who died in a fiery collision while fleeing the police in 2004. And all of them had one thing in common: their brains had been permanently, disablingly damaged by careers spent clobbering and getting clobbered by other very big, very strong men. No one yet knows if Seau was suffering from the same kind of degenerative injury, and no one ever will know unless his family agrees to allow his brain to be studied postmortem, the way the brains of the other athletes have been. He does, however, fit the profile. He played for a long time — 20 years in the pros alone, to say nothing of college, high school and Pop Warner. He had recently exhibited uncharacteristically volatile behavior — getting arrested in 2010 on a domestic violence charge and later that day driving his car over a 100-ft. cliff in California, sustaining surprisingly mild injuries. No drugs or<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=58807&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids&#8217; Concussion Symptoms May Persist for a Year</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/06/kids-concussion-symptoms-may-persist-for-a-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Updated) Children who suffer concussions may experience lingering problems with memory and attention, and may need help in school, according to a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics &#38; Adolescent Medicine. The study found that most children who bumped their heads didn’t show serious symptoms in the weeks after their injury, but a small group did go on to suffer increasing cognitive and physical symptoms, including headache, fatigue, forgetfulness and inattentiveness, in the two weeks following their concussion. Kids who suffered concussion were also more likely to show cognitive symptoms than children with orthopedic injuries; over time, those differences started to shrink, but the concussion group continued to show more cognitive symptoms even 12 months after their head injury. Children who lost consciousness were more likely than kids who weren&#8217;t knocked out to show more symptoms afterward: 20% continued to have forgetfulness and fatigue after their accident. “Our study confirms what a lot of us thought, which is that many, many kids who have concussions in fact do very well,” says lead author Keith Yeates, director of the Center for Biobehavioral Health at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. &#8220;That’s the good news. But the not-so-good news is that there does seem to be a small proportion of kids who don’t recover fully, and go on to have more persistent problems.” MORE: Kids&#8217; ER Visits for Head Injury on the Rise: Why That&#8217;s a Good thing The study involved 186 children aged 8 to 15 who experienced concussion — most commonly in a fall or while playing sports — or other brain injury from a car accident or other causes. The children&#8217;s parents were asked to fill out a standard questionnaire to assess their child’s cognitive and physical status before the concussion, and again two weeks, three months and a year later. These responses were compared to those from parents of 99 similar children who came into the emergency room with orthopedic injuries. About 500,000 children under 15 experience a concussion or mild traumatic brain<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=54615&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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