Archive for July, 2012

Angela discusses using an iPad after Brain Injury

Posted on July 25th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Part Seven (how Angela uses an Ipad to accommodate TBI) is at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/use-of-the-ipad-to-accomodate-tbi/   The previous part’s discussion about amnesia and memory transitioned to Angela’s explanation of how she currently uses an iPad to assist her.  Before she got her iPad, she had relied on multiple notebooks to remember things,..
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‘Dark Knight’ Shooting Victim Saved From TBI By Birth Defect

Posted on July 24th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Out of the horror of the “Dark Knight”  massacre last week has come a miracle: A young musician who was shot in the head apparently hasn’t suffered major brain damage. How? She has a birth defect, discovered as the result of her gunshot wound, that saved her. The woman, 22-year-old..
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Angela-Amnesia after Brain Injury

Posted on July 24th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Part Six of Angela’s story  is at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/amnesia-and-what-angela-cant-remember/   Actual amnesia after brain injury is much different than the way it is portrayed in the movies.  Rarely, does brain damage cause the injury person to forget who they were or life’s events.  Almost all brain injury amnesia relates to a..
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Usher’s Brain-Dead Stepson Dies After Taken Off Life Support

Posted on July 23rd, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Singer Usher’s stepson, who was declared brain-dead after a Jet Ski accident, died Saturday after he was taken off life support, according to the Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-usher-stepson-dead-kile-glover-tameka-raymond,0,3861923.story Kile Glover, 11, had been in the hospital since the July 6 mishap. He and a friend were floating in an inner..
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She Wants Other Survivors To Hear What She Has To Say

Posted on July 23rd, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Angela Part Five   Part Five of Angela’s story at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/tbi-symptoms-and-stress-a-brains-decompensation-because-of-pathology/ Mood issues are pervasive after a brain injury, but can also distract diagnosticians focus from the pathology of the injury to the non-organic explanations of what happened.  In properly assessing the mood issues after Angela’s injury, it is important..
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Binge-Drinking Increases Mental Impairment In Elderly, Study Finds

Posted on July 22nd, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

This just in from the UK: Oldsters who drink up a storm risk brain damage. A study done by British scientists found a link between binge drinking, which is defined as having four or more alcoholic beverages at one sitting, and later memory loss and cognitive decline, according to the..
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Immune-Disorder Drug May Stall Alzheimer’s Progression

Posted on July 21st, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Researchers are excited about the prospects for an immune-disorder drug that, at least in initial tests, halted the progression of Alzheimer’s disease for three years, according to USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-07-16/alzheimers-treatment-gammagard/56270084/1 Scientists announced the results of their study involving Gammagard, which is manufactured by Baxter International, at last week’s Alzheimer’s Association..
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Braves Sued Over Brain-Injured Girl Hit By Foul Ball

Posted on July 20th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The father of a 6-year-old girl who sustained brain injury after being hit by a foul ball at an Atlanta Braves game has filed suit against the team, according to the Atlanta  Journal-Constitution. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/lawsuit-filed-for-girl-1480479.html The Braves, team parent Liberty Media Corp., and Major League Baseball Enterprises were named as defendants..
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Angela Suffers Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury in Car Truck Collision

Posted on July 20th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Voices began with the story of Angela, who suffered a complicated moderate brain injury, including a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Part One of the Angela story is at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/the-tbi-voices-story-begins/  Unlike most of our other interviews, we began not with the words of our interview, but words of an essay Angela wrote about herself...
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Actress Halle Berry Hits Head On Set Of ‘The Hive’

Posted on July 18th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Two actresses, Halle Berry and Kristin Chenoweth, recently sustained head injuries while working on production sets. And it seems to me that their possible concussions were taken too lightly. Berry was sent to the hospital Tuesday after she fell and struck her head on concrete on the set of the..
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