Title:
Of Boys and Girls and Bumps on the Head
Speaker:
Anat Biegon
Subject:
neurology
Area:
Neuroscience
Type of school:
laboratory
School name:
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Country:
United States
Course language:
English
Course media:
Video
Course duration:
Contributor:
pbp
Comments:
414th Brookhaven Lecture, by Anat Biegon
"Of Boys and Girls and Bumps on the Head." Although it has been well documented that gender affects the prevalence of disorders such as depression and Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, recent head injury trials suggest that both age and sex affect the likelihood and degree of recovery from injuries to the brain. While girls are more likely to die following a traumatic brain injury than boys, that result is reversed after the age of 50, when men die twice as often. April 19, 2006