[Pharmacological possibilities in the treatment of brain injuries. Correct choice of drugs can optimize rehabilitation]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17902412

Hopefully you can get a hold of the full text. I cant locate it in my universities catalog through pubmed for now unfortunately. But I guess you might have access?

I dont have any proof other than what my doctor told me about her own and others research. I think it says in this article that it benefitial to start SSRI early in servere injuries.

On TBI patients with brain surgery done to them it is extremely important to put in pain-meds post-surgery. Its has been shown that the outcome for a brain that doesnt have pain is much better rehabilitationwize. Especiella right after surgery. Anything that takes a lot of energy from you...Pain, anxiety and so on is bad for the brain in the initial injured state. THIS however is not in the reaserch provided but thats something else they had done earlier.


Tomorrow im attending a lunch-presentation for a med company just about to get a clinic trail running on neuroprotective substances in TBI.

http://www.neurovive.se/

Emil