Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury

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Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.
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A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
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One dose of ibogaine was shown to dramatically reduce depression and PTSD.
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Football is a risky sport, but bicycling to work is far more dangerous.
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Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
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The study was small and didn't include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
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The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.