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Is there a sex difference in the course following traumatic brain injury?

Females age 30 years or older had poorer outcome than either males or younger
females.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15068659
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An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage
by Malcolm Macmillan

Gage's family and personal background, including contemporary medical and
newspaper reports of the accident and its consequences, and his treatment.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262133636/top100
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Stroke and neurodegenerative disorders. 2. Stroke
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15034851

Transient high altitude neurological dysfunction
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072718

Endocrine abnormalities in critical care patients with moderate-to-severe head
trauma
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15069597

Is there a Sex Difference in the Course Following Traumatic Brain Injury?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15068659

Reaction and movement times in individuals with chronic traumatic brain injury
with good motor recovery.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070006

Use Less Cosmetics-Suffer Less from Fibromyalgia?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072733

Pathways that elicit long-term changes in gene expression in nociceptive neurons
following nerve injury
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15072639

Eating disorders with binge-eating behaviour are associated with the s allele of
the 3'-UTR VNTR polymorphism of the dopamine transporter gene.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15069467

The recurrence risk of ischemic stroke in childhood.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15073428

Uric acid profile in patients with chronic nonspecific musculoskeletal pain.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15067822

Arousals and aircraft noise - environmental disorders of sleep and health in
terms of sleep medicine.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15070525

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