by Sue Robbins | Apr 12, 2016 | Adolescents and Children
A study by researchers at CHU Saint-Justine mother-child research hospital (affiliated with the University of Montreal), recently published in the Journal of Neuropsychology, reveals the adverse effects of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on the quality of...
by Sue Robbins | Feb 21, 2016 | Migraine
According to research published in Cephalagia, too much time in front of electronic screens can increase the risk of headaches and migraine in young adults. Previous studies have found associations between screen time exposure and headaches in children between the...
by Dr Robbins | Jan 15, 2016 | Sports Injury
Heading a soccer ball is not as innocuous as once was thought. Headers sometimes result in a concussion. Thousands of headers over a career may lead to permanent brain damage. A growing body of evidence points to the adverse effects of multiple headers. One...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 31, 2015 | Migraine
Helene Stapinski describes a time when her daughter had a headache, and she realized she had experienced the same condition when she was a young girl. Here is a part of her story…. A few months ago, my 10-year old daughter, Paulina was suffering from a bad...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 16, 2015 | Wellness
Everyone has had the experience of “catching” someone else’s stress – whether from a family member who got up on the wrong side of the bed, or a driver in the grocery store parking lot. Researchers are just beginning to study such secondhand...
