Month: July 2018

Any time you or a loved one experiences a head injury, panic is the expected immediate response. A blow to the head, whether in a car accident, on a football field, or from a fall, is frightening due to the unknown impact on the brain. While there are several types of traumatic brain injury, a concussion is among the most…

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) has been making waves in the medical community. The study, spearheaded by assistant professor Raquel Gardner, MD, is titled Mild TBI and Risk of Parkinson Disease: A Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium Study and was published in the journal Neurology in May. Assessing over 180,000…