New Publication: Do postconcussive symptoms from traumatic brain injury in combat veterans predict risk for receiving opioid therapy for chronic pain?
Dr. Kaup received a new pilot grant through the UCSF Resource Allocation Program (RAP)'s "Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences."
Dr. Barnes was nominated as a 2018 Federal Employee of the Year for her pioneering work on the Preventing Loss of Independence through Exercise (PLIÉ) program
Cognition and mobility show a global association in middle- and late-adulthood: Analyses from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
Concussion raises Parkinson's disease risk in large U.S. study
By Gene Emery on
(Reuters Health) -
A new study of hundreds of thousands of U.S. armed forces veterans concludes that banging your head severely enough to lose consciousness can dramatically increase the risk of Parkinson’s, the brain disease marked by tremors, slow movements, balance problems and difficulty…In veterans, even a mild case of traumatic brain injury is linked to an increased risk of dementia
By Karen Kaplan on
Mild traumatic brain injury may sound like an oxymoron, along the lines of "jumbo shrimp" or "random order." But a new study shows that mild TBIs can have serious consequences for military veterans by raising their risk of dementia.