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Today I am sad. And I am angry. Let me tell you why. A thread (it turns out this was not the last thread I will do, nor, unfortunately, was it the last thread on this issue). 1/15
This week, another ex-professional rugby player made public the sad news that he has been diagnosed with #CTE – a type of dementia that seems to have a link to those who played certain types of sport (#Rugby #Football #AmericanFootball) 2/15
and who have had repeated concussions or a significant #TraumaticBrainInjury (#TBI). bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-un… He is 41 years old, the same age as me. 3/15
Finishing this book presents a major milestone in my life. You see, approximately 6.5 years ago I was found in a pool of my own blood in a parking lot. I ended up in the ICU with a traumatic brain injury. Here’s what I did to reclaim my cognitive function - a 🧵 1/n 
The thing about brushes with death (my particular TBI has a ~90% mortality rate) is that they have a powerful clarifying function. Some of the initial thoughts I had was that I :
a - wanted to achieve fluency in French
b - wanted to really embrace Infosec
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a - wanted to achieve fluency in French
b - wanted to really embrace Infosec
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There was a small problem though. I was dumber than a bag of hammers. After about six months of recovery - I could barely read a children’s book. It’s not that I didn’t know the words. It’s that they all came at me at once.
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Excited to share our new paper out at @NatImmunol today! We discovered the limiting factor for #brain #Tregs is #IL2, and developed a new #genetherapy to treat #traumaticbraininjury and other #neuroinflammatory pathologies. 1/12
nature.com/articles/s4159…
nature.com/articles/s4159…
The work started more than 10 years ago, after my brother Russell died following a #traumaticbraininjury. The more I read into it, the more treatable #neuroinflammation seems. Obviously there is a #brain delivery problem, but stopping #inflammation is basic #immunology! 2/12
We had a great post-doc, @EmanuelaPasciu1, drive a project showing #Tcells in mouse and human brain, with key functions. Among these T cells were a small population of anti-inflammatory #Tregs, again in mouse and human. 3/12
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Yeah, remember when #CaptainBoneSpurs said being repeatedly bombed deaf and senseless, or being blasted 30 feet in the air with regularity, isn't really an injury, even if it does make you completely deaf, leave your ears ringing forever, give you #PTSD & #TraumaticBrainInjury.
BTW there's really no such thing as 'mild' #TraumaticBrainInjury. It's a horrific insult for them to call #TBI mild. It's life-changing, but not in a good way. #TrumpHatesOurMilitary #SuckersAndLosers #TrumpHatesOurTroops #VoteVets #Vote! #JoeBiden! stripes.com/news/us/64-us-…
“I heard they had headaches and a couple of other things. I can report it is not very serious,” Trump said
#HeadacheGate #TrumpHatesOurMilitary #TrumpHatesOurTroops He didn't serve because he didn't want to get that 'headache'. #SuckersAndLosers!
stripes.com/news/us/trump-…
#HeadacheGate #TrumpHatesOurMilitary #TrumpHatesOurTroops He didn't serve because he didn't want to get that 'headache'. #SuckersAndLosers!
stripes.com/news/us/trump-…
Unreal. The five-time draft dodger who literally said that *avoiding STDs* was his “personal Vietnam” thinks that it’s not “serious” that U.S. troops might have suffered traumatic brain injuries when Iran responded to his #Soleimani strike. thedailybeast.com/draft-dodger-t… (1/5)
This man has no respect for the sacrifices our servicemembers make for our country—he simply has no sense of decency. (2/5)
From @TheBushCenter: #TBI “is an injury to the brain due to external forces which disrupt the brain’s functioning. The disruption may be temporary with full recovery, or there may be long-lasting, even permanent injury to brain tissue” bushcenter.org/publications/a… (3/5)
NEW Research—Risk of head injury-related death reduced with #tranexamicacid in patients with mild-to-moderate head injury but not in severe head injury: finding from #CRASH3, a randomised, placebo-controlled trial hubs.ly/H0lfSNP0
@LSHTM @CTU_LSHTM @DFID_UK @NIHRresearch @wellcometrust @The_MRC View #CRASH3 findings. Abstract also available in Arabic hubs.ly/H0lfVCm0, Chinese hubs.ly/H0lfV0r0, French hubs.ly/H0lfV0X0, Hindi hubs.ly/H0lfVDL0, Japanese hubs.ly/H0lfVDW0, Spanish hubs.ly/H0lfVF30 & Urdu hubs.ly/H0lfVFs0
@LSHTM @CTU_LSHTM @DFID_UK @NIHRresearch @wellcometrust @The_MRC "#CRASH3 is the first trial of a pharmacological intervention applied in the acute setting to show improved outcomes in patients with #traumaticbraininjury."
Comment from Andrew Papp hubs.ly/H0lf_CR0
Comment from Andrew Papp hubs.ly/H0lf_CR0
