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Nearly 500,000 American servicemen and women suffered post traumatic stress disorder after the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. Traumatic brain injury or TBI was also more frequently diagnosed in veterans serving in post 9/11 conflicts. Now a new non drug therapy addresses veterans struggling with headaches caused by both.
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One million Americans are living with Parkinson's disease. Medications can help with the symptoms and for some patients deep brain stimulation or DBS works to control the tremors. Now doctors are using focused ultrasound to target the area of the brain causing the problems. The challenge doctors are facing is that they have only been able to perform the procedure on one side of the brain meaning the patient would only have improvement on one side...
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Each year more than 795,000 people in the United States suffer a stroke. Every three and a half minutes someone dies from one. Getting treated quickly is vital for survival and for a better recovery. Now doctors are using artificial intelligence to diagnose stroke quicker than ever before.
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More than six million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease. By 2050 that number is projected to be 13 million. Although there are several drugs to treat the symptoms theres only one FDA approved medication to slow the progression. Now there's a new treatment sparking discussion that could slow or halt the progression of this devastating disease.
11) What Is a TIA?
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Learn what a TIA is, how it is a serious warning sign for a stroke, and the importance of calling 911 if someone is showing the signs of having a TIA.
15) Lifetime Penalty
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Mike Peluso and Dan LaCouture suffered multiple brain injuries during their NHL careers. Did team doctors put the financial interests of their employers ahead of the health concerns of players? What did NHL executives do when it came to learning more about the dangers of repeated head trauma? How did they deal with rule changes that could have protected players better, even if it meant popular athletes were sidelined for longer?
16) Stroke
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Vicky starts her search for choir members, meeting people with different types of dementia and at different stages. One of the first to join is former woodwork teacher Chris, whose frontotemperal dementia is leading to increasingly disinhibited behaviour. The youngest member is 31-year-old Dan, who was diagnosed with a rare form of genetic Alzheimer's two years ago. Dan's father died at 36, though at the time no-one realised why. There's a risk that...
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