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Another study showing benefit of Zn in TBI

Zinc emerging as a tool in the treatment/recovery of TBI

exercise aids repair after TBI through BDNF.

analysis of sports related TBI

Great, though brief, review of immunoexcitotoxicity as it relates to CTE.

pituitary dysfunction found in people with TBI.  This study found the greatest effect on HGH.

Article discusses the immunoexcitotoxic process involved in chronic TBI. This is likely to be the underlying process involved in NFL and other football players delayed neurological effects. A similar process has been see in combat veterans returning from the theatre.

Progesterone has a neuroprotective and promyelinating effects in the nervous system.  Progesterone increases BDNF.  Progesterone increases proliferation and differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells which will increase myelin production.

Very nice review of the neurodegenerative process in MS.  

methylmercury mediates neurotoxicity via mitochondrial damage, inflammation, and oxidative stress.  Astrocytes accumulated the methyl mercury.  The destruction of the astrocytes will result in an increase in glutamate.  Methylmercury is synergistic with other toxins in the development of immunoexcitotoxicity.

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Scientific American article from 2013 highlights the link between head trauma and pituitary dysfunction.  

Human study: High dose IV vitamin C and IM vitamin E shown to improve outcome.