Alzheimer's Linked to Traumatic Brain Injury
It has been known that traumatic brain injury leads to increased risk of Alzheimer's.
Neuroscientist, Mark Burns, who is assistant professor at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) in Washington, DC. is presenting a paper on their work at the Alzheimer's Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD 2009) which is taking place from 11 to 16 July in Vienna, Austria.
The Stop Silent Suffering Website reports the following:
Researchers in the US found that the destructive cellular pathways that occur following traumatic brain injury are the same as those activated in Alzheimer's Disease, suggesting that both conditions could be treated with new drugs that target these pathways. They said the findings "cement" the relationship beween traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's Disease.
The brains of elderly patients who died from Alzheimer's Disease often show a build up of a toxic peptide called beta amyloid. The same substance is also found in the brains of around one third of people who have suffered traumatic brain injury, including children.
When a traumatic injury occurs to the brain, a mass of brain cells or neurons dies, and this is then followed by a second "wave" of beta amyloid build up. This secondary damage can last several months or even years and leaves big holes inside the brain.
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Tim;
Thanks for sharing this informative and important study. I have always suspected this relationship between TBI and symptoms consistant with Alzheimer's Disease. Having a study to confirm it helps significantly.
FYI: Check out an opinion piece I wrote that ran last month in the Oregonian: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/06/maxs_law_one_tragedy_that_need.html
Thanks, Tim. Keep up the good work.
David Kracke
Attorney,
Portland, Oregon
503-224-3018
I just wanted to thank you for your site, and have made notes to take for more research and study on my brain. I had seizures 40 of 44 years and in 1999, the left Amygdala, part of the hippocampus and scar tissue more than likely from the forcepts at birth as my mother and aunt who was an LPN, said they held the forcepts a little too hard, a little too long cause the scar tissue. I became seizure free for a year and a half and powerwalked 11 years, up to 7 miles at a time and yoga and jumped rope and was 3 weeks from moving to Colorado Springs, and was standing at a pedestrian crosswalk and heard a CRASH and a red van hit me. My frontal lobe went through the windshield and broke clavical, shoved it up and over in my neck and broke ribs, punctured lung and pulverized my left knee and my head took yet another blow hitting pavement 50 feet away in a parking lot almost hitting parked cars!! I now have Complex PTSD, TBI, Partial Seizures with Secondary Generalization and am really concerned about Alzheimer's since I have so many of the symptoms and short term memory. Can no longer do my hobbies, scrapbooking, painting, watercolors. I will try to ask when they do the testing on my emotion and memory if it is possible that I am developing Alzheimer's or have all!!! My head HAS to have scar tissue from going through the windshiled while standing there and then hitting pavement 50 feet away if it can get scar tissue to cause seizures from forcepts. Thank yu.