New Hopes for Treating Traumatic Brain Injury

Dr. David Wright, associate professor of emergency medicine at Emory University, talks about research conducted with his colleagues, Dr. Donald Stein and Dr. Art Kellermann, that involves the use of progesterone for treating traumatic brain injury. In the summer of 2009, the NIH awarded a 3-year grant of $14.5 million for these Emory researchers to lead a nationwide study on the effectiveness of this treatment. (Sponsored by the Provost's Office "Great Scholars" series and Emory College of Arts and Sciences.)

See June 2009 press release on the Phase III Study of Progesterone for Traumatic Brain Injury:
http://shared.web.emory.edu/whsc/news/releases/2009/06/progesterone-for-traum...

For more information on Dr. Stein, honored by the Association for Psychological Science for his research and commitment to finding treatments and cures for traumatic brain injured patients:
http://shared.web.emory.edu/whsc/news/releases/2009/06/traumatic-brain-injury...

Related videos:

'PROTECT'ing the Brain - 5-minute version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYilY7HSr2Q

'PROTECT'ing the Brain - Short version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJnNH21BZdw

Progesterone for Traumatic Brain Injury
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXn-FhUzA0I

"Great Scholars, Great Work" by Emory's Office of the Provost
http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/greatscholars/index.html

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