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Foreman B, Lee H, Mizrahi M, Hartings J, Ngwenya L, Privitera M, et al.
Neurocrit Care . 2021 Jul; 36(1):130-138. PMID: 34232458
Introduction: Seizures and abnormal periodic or rhythmic patterns are observed on continuous electroencephalography monitoring (cEEG) in up to half of patients hospitalized with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)....
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Witkin J, Cerne R, Newman A, Izenwasser S, Smith J, Tortella F
Pharmacol Biochem Behav . 2021 Feb; 203:173154. PMID: 33609599
Interest in developing NMDA receptor antagonists with reduced side-effects for neurological and psychiatric disorders has been re-energized by the recent introduction of esketamine into clinical practice for treatment-resistant depression. Structural...
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Lee H, Mizrahi M, Hartings J, Sharma S, Pahren L, Ngwenya L, et al.
Crit Care Med . 2019 Jan; 47(4):574-582. PMID: 30624278
Objectives: After traumatic brain injury, continuous electroencephalography is widely used to detect electrographic seizures. With the development of standardized continuous electroencephalography terminology, we aimed to describe the prevalence and burden...
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Yang Z, Zhu T, Mondello S, Akel M, Wong A, Kothari I, et al.
J Neurotrauma . 2018 Jul; 36(2):348-359. PMID: 29987972
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase (UCH-L1), markers of glial and neuronal cell body injury, respectively, have been previously selected by the Operation Brain Trauma Therapy (OBTT)...
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Kochanek P, Bramlett H, Dixon C, Dietrich W, Mondello S, Wang K, et al.
Mil Med . 2018 Apr; 183(suppl_1):303-312. PMID: 29635589
Operation brain trauma therapy (OBTT) is a multi-center, pre-clinical drug and biomarker screening consortium for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Therapies are screened across three rat models (parasagittal fluid percussion injury,...
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Cernak I, Stein D, Elder G, Ahlers S, Curley K, DePalma R, et al.
Brain Inj . 2017 Oct; 31(9):1168-1176. PMID: 28981339
As a follow-up to the 2008 state-of-the-art (SOTA) conference on traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), the 2015 event organized by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Research...
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Johnson D, Cartagena C, Tortella F, Dave J, Schmid K, Boutte A
J Trauma Acute Care Surg . 2017 Apr; 83(1 Suppl 1):S145-S149. PMID: 28452880
Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small stable RNAs that regulate translational degradation or repression of genes involved in brain trauma-mediated inflammation. More recently, miRNAs have emerged as potential novel TBI biomarkers....
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Lu X, Cao Y, Mountney A, Liao Z, Shear D, Tortella F
J Trauma Acute Care Surg . 2017 Apr; 83(1 Suppl 1):S25-S34. PMID: 28452872
Background: Posttraumatic seizures are a medical problem affecting patients with traumatic brain injury. Yet effective treatment is lacking owing to the limitations of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) applicable to these patients....
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Mountney A, Boutte A, Cartagena C, Flerlage W, Johnson W, Rho C, et al.
J Neurotrauma . 2017 Mar; 34(19):2768-2789. PMID: 28326890
Closed-head concussive injury is one of the most common causes of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Isolated concussions frequently produce acute neurological impairments, and individuals typically recover spontaneously within a short...
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Spurlock M, Ahmed A, Rivera K, Yokobori S, Lee S, Sam P, et al.
J Neurotrauma . 2017 Mar; 34(11):1981-1995. PMID: 28249550
Penetrating traumatic brain injury (PTBI) is one of the major cause of death and disability worldwide. Previous studies with penetrating ballistic-like brain injury (PBBI), a PTBI rat model revealed widespread...