Neurotrauma
What is neurotrauma?
Would you like to learn more about neurotrauma?
Who researches neurotrauma?
Would you like to support neurotrauma research?
What is neurotrauma?
The brain is a delicate and complex organ and can easily be damaged, making trauma to the brain an issue of significant concern. Motor vehicle accidents and falls are the biggest causes of traumatic injuries to the brain, and each year, more than 1 million people in North America are disabled or killed by these types of neurotraumatic injuries.
In healthy individuals, the brain can retain normal functioning after minor impacts, thus allowing us to survive everyday bumps and jostles without any significant changes in brain function. However, traumatic injuries can have more mixed and severe results. In some cases, brain cells die almost immediately after trauma. In other cases, death is delayed, providing an opportunity to develop strategies to save cells that would otherwise die. When nerve cells are damaged or non-functioning, an individual can become permanently impaired in thought, speech, movement, and behaviour.
The recovery from an injury to the brain is often long and difficult. Research into neurotrauma is needed in order to ascertain the best treatments for patients recovering from such injuries. The recovery option implemented early in the treatment of these injuries can mean the difference between recovering full functioning again and not.
Would you like to learn more about neurotrauma?
More information on neurotrauma and spinal cord injuries may be obtained from ICORD (International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries).
Who researches neurotrauma?
Vanessa Auld, PhD Department of Zoology
Kenneth G. Baimbridge, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
C. Laird Birmingham, MD Department of Psychiatry
Jean-Sebastien Blouin, PhD School of Human Kinetics
Joan Bottorf, PhD Faculty of Health & Social Development, UBC Okangana
Johann Brink, PhD Department of Psychiatry
Brian R. Christie, MSc, PhD Department of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria
John Church, MB, ChB, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Peter Cripton, PhD Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kenneth Curry, PhD Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Max S. Cynader, PhD Department of Ophthalmology; Director, Brain Research Centre
Doris J. Doudet, PhD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Felix A. Durity, MD Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery
Andrew Eisen, MD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Liisa Galea, MA, PhD Department of Psychology
Todd Handy, PhD Department of Psyhology
Farsheed Hedayati Vala, MD Faculty of Medicine
Manraj Heran, MD Department of Radiology
Alan Hill, PhD, MD Department of Paediatrics
Judy Illes, PhD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Wilfred A. Jefferies, PhD Michael Smith Laboratories
William Jia, MSc, PhD Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery
David Katz, PhD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Seung Kim, MD, PhD Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Alan Kingstone, PhD Department of Psychology
Andrei Krassioukov, MD, PhD iCORD
Charles Krieger, MD, MSc, PhD School of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University
Brian Kwon, PhD Department of Orthopaedics
Tania Lam, PhD School of Human Kinetics
David Li, MD Department of Radiology
David A. Mathers, PhD Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Joanne A. Matsubara, PhD Department of Ophthalmology
Steven Miller, MD Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology
John R. O'Kusky, MSc, PhD Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Steven Pelech, PhD Department of Medicine
Anthony G. Phillips, MA, PhD Department of Psychology
Alexander Rauscher, PhD Department of Radiology
Gary Redekop, MD, MSc Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery
Urs Ribary, PhD Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Gordon Rintoul, PhD Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Jane Roskams, PhD Department of Zoology
John W. Schrader, MB BS, PhD Department of Medicine; Director, Biomedical Research Centre
Weihong Song, MD, PhD Department of Psychiatry
Jack Taunton, MD Department of Family Practice/School of Human Kinetics
Wolfram Tetzlaff, MD, PhD Department of Zoology
Steven R. Vincent, PhD Division of Neurological Sciences, Department of Psychiatry
Would you like to support neurotrauma research?
The Brain Research Centre is committed to advancing our knowledge of the brain and to exploring new discoveries and technologies which have the potential to reduce the suffering and cost associated with disease and injuries of the brain. We invite you to help us deliver on this commitment.
