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This is a great time to gather with old friends and make new ones as we support The Brain Injury Association of Maryland.
We will be serving delicious barbecued meats, side dishes, drinks (non-alcoholic) and desserts. Vegetarian options are available upon request. Indoor and outdoor seating is available.
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Date and time
Sun, September 11, 2022
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Location
Key Brewery Taphouse
2500 Grays Rd
Dundalk, MD 21222
Early Bird Specials:
Individual Ticket
Early Bird - Table of 8
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#5Thoughts Friday
The
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08/12/2022
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Check out the latest
Find out about James "JimJim" Miller's story of bringing positivity to the brain injury community and learn about his efforts to shine a light for others to follow out of the darkness of this devastating injury.
CLICK HERE or find us wherever you listen to your podcasts.
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988: The New Way to Connect to Behavioral Health Crisis Services
Maryland has a new way to connect to local behavioral health crisis services.
Calling 988 will connect callers directly to the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline which encompasses all behavioral crisis services, to include all mental health and substance use (problems with drug and alcohol use).
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline replaces the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline AND expands services to cover all behavioral health crisis services.
CLICK HERE to learn more about this critical service
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To study the relationship between age and fatigue, Kessler Foundation researchers conducted a novel study using neuroimaging and self-report data. Their findings were published online on May 9, 2022, in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience in the open access article, "Fatigue across the lifespan in men and women: State vs. trait."
The authors are Glenn Wylie, DPhil, Amanda Pra Sisto, Helen M. Genova, PhD, and John DeLuca, PhD, of Kessler Foundation. All have faculty appointments at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Wylie is also a research scientist at The Department of Veterans' Affairs War-related Injury and Illness Study Center at the New Jersey Healthcare System.
Their study is the first to report the effects of gender and age on both 'state' and 'trait' fatigue, and the first to report fatigue-related differences in brain activation across the lifespan and across gender during a cognitively fatiguing task. "State" measure of fatigue assesses a subject's instantaneous experience of fatigue at the time of testing; "trait" measure of fatigue assesses how much fatigue a subject experienced over a longer period of time, such as the previous four weeks.
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From everyday actions like walking and talking to feats of athletic or academic excellence, the brain is constantly acquiring and seamlessly processing information to produce these incredible behaviors. The process requires a whole orchestra of cells listening to each other and tuning their functions to harmonize together. One of the remaining, most fundamental questions in neuroscience asks how cells in the brain move, interact, and coordinate with each other to produce these activities.
In the brain, this cellular symphony includes not only neurons, but cells that normally play a role in defending the body against pathogens. One group are tiny immune cells called microglia, which researchers are increasingly learning play oversized roles in brain function, health, and disease. The cells are also gaining increased attention for their roles in assembling and maintaining neural circuits, and how they are able to change their molecular identity to match their environment. To neuroscientists, the mystery has long been how they make this change.
In a new report in Nature, a team of researchers from the lab of Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Paola Arlotta and from the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard come closer to answering this question. The paper, published Wednesday, shows that microglia cells "listen in" to neighboring neurons and change their molecular state to match them.
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CLICK HERE , to see how imitation is the highest form of flattery!
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Simple blood tests taken on the day of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can predict with fairly high reliability which patients are likely to die and which are likely to survive with severe disability, according to a study published Wednesday in Lancet Neurology.
The rapid assay looks for two protein biomarkers — GFAP, found in glial cells, and UCH-L1, found in neurons. Tests of both biomarkers have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for their ability to show structural damage to the brain and are used as tools to determine if patients with mild TBI should have costly CT scans.
Now, this paper, by a group of scientists associated with a brain injury research initiative called TRACK-TBI, shows that the assays are not only diagnostic, but also prognostic. Having a strong indication of outcome can shape conversations with families in cases of devastating injury, the researchers said, or contribute to triage decisions and resource allocation in a military setting.
While typical prognostic tests “require an assemblage of some clinical data, some CT imaging data, and some laboratory data,” this test is easy to use and the results are immediate, said Geoffrey Manley, a trauma neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco and senior author on the study.
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2) Books We are READING This Week |
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By the time we become adults, most of us have joined the religion of suffering, which preaches that unless circumstances are controlled, life will be a mess. We compare ourselves to others and speculate about an impossible-to-know future, holding out hope for an improved life through getting ahead, fulfilling passion, or finding true love. But the idea that happiness comes from putting effort toward altering one’s circumstances is harmful and backward. What if we instead learned to understand that circumstances can rarely be controlled, and that life is, and always will be, messy?
From that starting point, we could learn to use our minds to create happiness despite life’s ever-changing circumstances and events. Life’s Messy, Live Happy by Cy Wakeman is about dramatically changing the level of happiness you feel in your daily life, by learning to disconnect happiness from external forces, stop worrying about the future, and realize that most of your negative feelings are about things that never even happened.
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1) Quote We are Contemplating |
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"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be."
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HAVE A WONDERFUL
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