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#5Thoughts Friday
The
Edition
8/11/2023
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SATURDAY
Sept. 30th:
Blue Crabs 4
Brain Injury
WHEN: Saturday, September 30th
2500 Grays Road
Dundalk, MD 21222
WHAT:
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Steamed Crabs, Maryland Corn on the Cob, BBQ and Pit Beef, Chesapeake Chips, Baked Beans, Salad, Watermelon, Soft Drinks
- And, of course, great KEY Beer and Wine for Purchase
EARLY BIRD PRICING: (Till September 9th)
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS: $75
TABLES OF 8: $575
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The lifelong consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be severe, but until the last decade, they received little attention from doctors treating military veterans. According to the Department of Defense, more than 458,000 service members were diagnosed with a TBI from 2000 to 2022, though evolving diagnostic standards likely mean that the number is higher.
TBI is the result of serious or repeated hits to the head, at any level that causes brain damage. Though it’s a physical injury, the consequences of suffering this type of head trauma are most often mental and emotional. For veterans in particular, this burden can lead to behavior like substance abuse and self-harm. Research on excess death among veterans has identified a dangerous relationship between TBI and post-traumatic stress disorder, with suicidal ideation and behaviors appearing with notable frequency in those with both conditions. A new study further spells out the risks for veterans with brain injuries by taking all lifelong mental-health diagnoses into account, mapping for the first time on a large scale how brain injury can play an indirect role in suicide as well.
“We're really trying to address people's challenges from a very non-stigmatized, whole-human perspective,” says Lisa Brenner, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs-affiliated Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center and the lead author of the study. To do so, Brenner and her team pulled health information on more than 850,000 U.S. Army soldiers who returned from deployment before the age of 25, over 100,000 of whom had at least one documented TBI in their health records and nearly 2,700 of whom ended their own lives at some point following deployment. Then, they traced mental health diagnoses over time, looking for patterns in the onsets and outcomes of conditions such as mood disorders, substance and alcohol use disorders, and anxiety.
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Join CAM, elected officials, care workers, and others to watch award-winning documentary film "Care", which explores the home care crisis.
Tuesday, September 12
6:30pm-8:30pm EDT
Busboys and Poets
5331 Baltimore Avenue Hyattsville, MD 20781
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By examining a person's brain activity, artificial intelligence (AI) can produce a song that matches the genre, rhythm, mood and instrumentation of music that the individual recently heard.
Now, researchers have built an AI-based pipeline, called Brain2Music, that harnesses brain imaging data to generate music that resembles short snippets of songs a person was listening to when their brain was scanned. They described the pipeline in a paper, published July 20 to the preprint database arXiv, which has not yet been peer-reviewed.
The scientists used brain scans that had previously been collected via a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which tracks the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the brain to see which regions are most active. The scans were collected from five participants as they listened to 15-second music clips spanning a range of genres, including blues, classical, country, disco, hip-hop, jazz and pop.
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HobbleJog Foundation is Celebrating 7 years. BE PART OF OUR STORY. We are once again participating in the LifeLine 100 Biking Event and inviting riders GLOBALLY. The event has been a key fundraiser for the foundation. Our goal this year is to get riders from around the world to participate. We know movement is incredibly beneficial to TBI survivors, so this ride (whether you choose 15, 30, 60, or 100 miles) is a great way to raise funds to support TBI Survivors to Thrive. Whether or not you are in Maryland, you can sign up to be a rider! You can ride anywhere (even indoors). We ask you to consider riding within two weeks from the in-person ride on October 1, 2023 and post your mileage, photos, and comments about your ride on the HobbleJog Facebook page.
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Researchers at the Australian Sports Brain Bank on Monday reported the first diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a female athlete. Researchers diagnosed former Australian rules football player Heather Anderson, who died at 28 in November, with the degenerative brain disease caused by repeated head injuries.
“There were multiple CTE lesions as well as abnormalities nearly everywhere I looked in her cortex. It was indistinguishable from the dozens of male cases I’ve seen,” said Michael Buckland, director of the ASBB. “I want to thank the Anderson family for generously donating Heather’s brain and hope more families follow in their footsteps so we can advance the science to help future athletes.”
Buckland identified low-stage CTE in Anderson after her family donated her brain in hopes of better understanding why she died. The findings were published Tuesday in the Springer medical journal.
Anderson played rugby league and Australian rules football throughout her athletic career, which included eight appearances for Adelaide in the Australian Football League Women’s competition in 2017. In the team’s final game that season, she suffered a dislocated shoulder and subsequently underwent career-ending surgery. Anderson, who became known for her soft-shell pink helmet, also served as a medic in the Australian Defence Force. In November, her father said she died by suicide.
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Brain Injury Connector Podcast is in Season 4 and we are looking for guests!
Because every brain is different, every brain injury is different, and every brain injury recovery is different, most individuals and families dealing with brain injuries have many more questions than answers. Join Bryan Pugh, Executive Director of the Brain Injury Association of Maryland, as he searches for answers by interviewing individuals with brain injuries, family members, healthcare providers, policy makers and other members of the brain injury community. Each episode contains powerful information to help you learn more about brain injury, discover new treatments and solutions, and meet inspirational people making meaningful impacts on their community by changing the world.
Join us and tell your story!
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Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know--such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best.
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget--and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?
In Brain Rules, molecular biologist Dr. John Medina shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule--what scientists know for sure about how our brains work--and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.
Medina's fascinating stories and sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You'll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You'll peer over a surgeon's shoulder as he finds, to his surprise, that we have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You'll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can't tie his own shoes.
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“ Brain injuries are like snowflakes and fingerprints. NO two are the same.”
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HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!
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Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful weekend.
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