Neuroscience
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that most individuals who get a concussion regain normal brain function within a month or two at most. Doctors, though, have no way to predict which patients will suffer long-term cognitive problems.
A team from the University of Pennsylvania and Baylor College of Medicine are seeking to solve that riddle with a simple blood test.
In a new study in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, it was reported that a protein called SNTF is a promising indicator of which patients with concussions are likely to experience chronic brain deficits.
Read the full article.
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Neuroscience
Protein May Help Assess Concussions
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that most individuals who get a concussion regain normal brain function within a month or two at most. Doctors, though, have no way to predict which patients will suffer long-term cognitive problems.
A team from the University of Pennsylvania and Baylor College of Medicine are seeking to solve that riddle with a simple blood test.
In a new study in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, it was reported that a protein called SNTF is a promising indicator of which patients with concussions are likely to experience chronic brain deficits.
Read the full article.
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Steven Brem, MDThe front page of yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer Health section reports that, while preparing to remove a malignant tumor from the Rev. Michael Prewitt's brain, neurosurgeon Steven Brem, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania worried...
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