Traumatic Brain Injury
High levels of tau protein in fluid bathing the brain are linked to poor recovery after head trauma.
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Famous quotes containing the words traumatic, brain and/or injury:
“Theres a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading theyll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. Theyve already passed their test in life. Theyre aristocrats.”
—Diane Arbus (19231971)
“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think its a very poor scheme for survival.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)
“A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we donamely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (18841962)