Concussion, transference interpretations, anxiety disorders in children, how to study and prevent suicide, the etiology of psychiatric disorders, and mitochondrial transfer techniques for severe genetic disease
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Concussion: Two concise and critical research reviews. Giza and Hovda, who performed essential work informing our knowledge of the postconcussion neurometabolic cascade, now provide an update.1 They review current knowledge of the acute pathophysiology of concussion (ionic flux, glutamate release, the “energy crisis,” cytoskeletal damage, axonal dysfunction, altered neurotransmission, inflammation, and cell death) and relate these processes to symptoms. For example, ionic flux may be linked to postconcussion migraines; the energy crisis is related to the greater vulnerability to a second concussion before this process normalizes, and altered ne…
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DisclosuresEditorial BoardsInternational Journal of Eating Disorders; UpToDate; FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry; American Journal of Psychotherapy
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DisclosuresRoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions
Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)
DisclosuresRoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions
Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)