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Motto: "Advocate, Educate, Prevent"
Address:
c/o DHFS Bureau of Long Term Support
1 West Wilson, Room 418
PO Box 7851
Madison, Wisconsin 53703

Weaving a Safety Net: Integrating Injury and Violence Prevention into Maternal and Child Health Programs
This publication was written by the Children’s Safety Network (CSN), with funding from Health Resources Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau. CSN thanks its partners, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) and the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association

Health Information from the NIA (National Institute on Aging: Leading the Federal Effort on Aging Research
National Institutes of Health
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
"A stroke happens when something changes how blood flows through the brain..."

Non-convulsive seizures secondary to brain injury: an emerging clinical concern
and potential implication for clinical trial design
Anthony J. Williams, Jed A. Hartings, and Frank C. Tortella
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Department of Applied Neurobiology, Silver
Spring, MD
"Acute brain injury involves two phases of pathology: the primary mechanical or
cerebrovascular insult and a variety of secondary pathologies that cause maturation of the
injury and critically determine patient outcome. One type of secondary insult which has
received increased attention in recent years is the occurrence of “non-clinical” or nonconvulsive
brain seizures. It is estimated that 10-27% of patients with acute brain injury
experience early seizures that are manifested in clinical motor convulsions [1], which are
easily recognized by medical personnel and in most cases can be treated with anticonvulsant
pharmacotherapy. However, a substantial percentage of patients also
experience non-convulsive seizures (NCS) without overt clinical manifestations. This
type of seizure has been underappreciated in the past, because it can only be diagnosed
with electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings, which is not a standard monitoring
modality in critically brain-injured patients. Recent studies nonetheless have shown that
NCS occurs in 6-37% of patients depending upon the type of brain lesion (ischemic,
traumatic, hemorrhagic, etc) (see Table 1). In some instances of non-convulsive status
epilepticus (NCSE), when NCS continues for >30 min., this type of seizure represents an
acute medical emergency.
Despite advances made by recent studies, the incidence of brain-injury related NCS
may be underestimated...."

Statement by Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health of the Department of Health and Human Services on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Research at the National Institute of Mental Health
before Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United States House of Representatives
Thursday, May 24, 2007
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
"Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a chronic medical disorder that follows exposure to an overwhelming traumatic event. The main features are intrusive thoughts including flashbacks, avoidance of things that recall the trauma, and hyperarousal (sleeplessness, restlessness, irritability)."

Wisconsin Medical Society - Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD or NVLD)

Wiley Titles in Emergency Medicine and Trauma
A through z index

Neuroprotection is the mechanisms and strategies used to protect against neuronal injury or degeneration in the Central Nervous System (CNS) following acute disorders (e.g. stroke or nervous sy ... the role of neuroprotection in Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS)

Publication of the World Federation of Neurology. Published by Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Based in the United Kingdom

Best standards, education, facilitating research

Wayne State University (in Detroit, Michigan)

Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM)
http://home.med.wayne.edu/

Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Neurology
http://www.med.wayne.edu/neurology/index.asp

An affiliate Hospital of Wayne State University is Detroit Medical Center
http://www.dmc.org/

This system is a NETT medical hub system.

Book:
Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury
Author: Cathy Crimmins
Publisher: First Vintage Books
Published: October 2001
ISBN-13: 9780375704420
257 pages.

Caregiver wife account of husband's recovery from TBI.

Filed under: books, family caregivers.