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Elisa was lucky: there had been brain swelling but no bleeding. Natasha Richardson, who died after suffering a head bump that seemed no worse than my daughter's, was not so fortunate. In the wake of Richardson's death, the question on a lot of minds is what distinguishes one kind of head trauma from another--and how you can tell before it's too late. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...part on acting fast: call 911 or drive the victim to the hospital; do not wait to reach your own doctor. The rest turns on the type of injury. Richardson died of an epidural hematoma, an accumulation of blood between the skull and dura, the tough tissue covering the brain. A subdural hematoma is blood between the dura and brain. Both injuries have a mortality rate of about 50%. Intracerebral bleeding, which occurs within the brain, is even more serious. "Patients get redlined to surgery in 15 to 30 minutes" if they have any of these injuries, says Dr. Neil...
Other head injuries include skull fractures, which can lead to brain bleeding, and concussions, which typically don't--but which can lead to swelling and potentially permanent brain damage. As a general rule, doctors say that any head injury should be treated within the so-called golden hour after it occurs. In some cases, hospitalization and drugs may resolve the problem. That was what happened with my daughter, who was released after three days. Even then, we realized how close we had come. Now we know better than ever...
...experience of being nervous was instructive because it mimicked, in a way, the cognitive strain under which an ADHD kid takes such tests. ADHD compromises the brain's executive functioning - its ability to master unexpected exercises. The same way I got nervous, ADHD kids get momentarily lost, their attention fractured for a few seconds. Think about when you're reading and get to the end of a paragraph and realize you haven't been paying attention: that's what it's like for ADHD kids, all the time. My actigraph scores confirmed that I wasn't operating normally...
...program, grew into a national phenomenon that, by 2003, cost $230 million and involved 50,000 police officers. Partnership for a Drug-Free America launched a similarly memorable campaign in 1987 with an abrasive television ad featuring a hot skillet, a raw egg, and the phrase, "This is your brain on drugs...