Month: July 2016

In recent times, there’s been a turnover of convictions based on the prognosis of shaken baby syndrome because of the growing lack of support in medical community between the connection of shaking a baby and an absolute result of injury or death. While this investigation into the causation of brain swelling, bleeding on the surface of the brain and bleeding…

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), to adults 55 years and older, may be linked to an increase in dementia according to a new study by JAMA Neurology. This study supports the findings of another from earlier this year that 16% of veterans who had suffered a traumatic brain injury developed dementia compared with only 10% of veterans who had not experienced…