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#5Thoughts Friday
The
Edition
2/3/2023
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Wednesday March 22, 2023
1:00pm- 4:30pm
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The Alicia Cignatta Spirit of Independence Awards
is dedicated to the memory of BIAMD's most dedicated and loving staff member who lost her battle with brain cancer in December 2018.
Each year, these awards are presented in recognition of individuals who have made contributions to improving the quality of life for individuals with brain injury.
Awards will be presented at the BIAMD Annual Conference General Session on Thursday, March 24, 2022.
Nominations should be received by no later than March 4, 2022 to allow us adequate time to select the award recipient and make arrangements for them to receive the award.
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BIAMD's Brain Injury Conference
is set for
March 23-24, 2023
at the beautiful
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It’s clear that chronic stress can impact our behavior, leading to problems like depression, reduced interest in things that previously brought us pleasure, even PTSD.
Now scientists have evidence that a group of neurons in a bow-shaped portion of the brain become hyperactive after chronic exposure to stress. When these POMC neurons become super active, these sort of behavioral problems result and when scientists reduce their activity, it reduces the behaviors, they report in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
Scientists at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University looked in the hypothalamus, key to functions like releasing hormones and regulating hunger, thirst, mood, sex drive and sleep, at a population of neurons called the proopiomelanocortin, or POMC, neurons, in response to 10 days of chronic, unpredictable stress.
Chronic unpredictable stress is widely used to study the impact of stress exposure in animal models, and in this case that included things like restraint, prolonged wet bedding in a tilted cage and social isolation.
They found the stressors increased spontaneous firing of these POMC neurons in male and female mice, says corresponding author Xin-Yun Lu, MD, PhD, chair of the MCG Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Translational Neuroscience.
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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Joy Lewis’s son, Jordan, was 18 when he suffered a traumatic brain injury in a crash. Two decades later, the Papillion family has created a phone app for brain injury survivors they call Lightbridge.
“What we tried to do, and what Jordan gave so much of himself to do, was take our experience and put it into something that allowed people to take action, and take action at their own pace, and not be told what they should do,” Joy said.
An accident, childhood abuse, sexual violence, assault, being threatened with a weapon, and combat exposure can all lead to PTSD, which is similar to TBI in its challenges -- so an app originally designed for those with brain injuries is proving helpful to others.
“It’s not just for those of us who are struggling to live life,” Joy said. “It’s for those who want to live their best life. And routine...it gives you all of those strengths that come from daily routines and connection.”
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The Elville Webinar Series Presents on Friday, February 22nd:
Cryptocurrency: Gaining an Understanding and Making
Informed Choices
10:00am-11:30am
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Before the first COVID-19 vaccines were readily available in Maryland, Rachel Ledney Odom was already sick and getting sicker.
A fever, accompanied by a headache, cough, fatigue and heart palpitations put her in the hospital for a week. At home, she developed recurring pneumonia, brain fog, chest pain and myocarditis, or inflammation around the heart muscle.
Today, Odom still feels sick and said friends, family and doctors don’t understand the enormity of her burden. She’s sidelined from her work, struggled with family responsibilities and needs assistance with once-mundane tasks, like showering. Fearing bringing COVID-19 back into their home, Odom’s teenage son stopped going to in-person school.
A psychologist based in Odenton, Odom is one of an unknown, but likely massive, number of patients with long COVID, which has proven to have lasting changes on the body for reasons researchers and medical professionals are still trying to understand.
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What is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman Doidge's inspiring guide to the new brain science explains all of this and more
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable, and proving that it is, in fact, possible to change your brain. Psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity, its healing powers, and the people whose lives they've transformed--people whose mental limitations, brain damage or brain trauma were seen as unalterable.
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“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over”
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Looking for Something fun to do in Maryland this weekend?
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HAVE A WONDERFUL
WEEKEND!
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