The results are out on the two late-stage clinical trials that Eli Lilly was running on a potential Alzheimer’s drug, and what you think about them depends on whether you tend to see the glass half empty or half full. Lily’s tests on the drug solanezumab didn’t attain their goal,..
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Betty Part Seven – Dealing with cognitive issues: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/cognitive-challenges-sequencing-staying-on-task-topic/ Betty, like so many other of the TBI Voices participants had a seemingly remarkable cognitive recovery, especially considering the profound difficulties she suffered early on. Her cognitive challenges are subtle, not the kind of things that show up in an..
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Middle-aged people who are obese, and have risk factors such as high blood pressure, mentally decline faster as they age than those of normal weight, according to a study published Monday in the journal Neurology. The 10-year study involved 6,401 people aged 39 to 63 years old, some of whom..
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Betty Part Six – Return to Work as a Dental Hygienist: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/returning-to-work-after-severe-brain-injury/ Access to extensive vocational rehabilitation made a big difference in enabling Betty to be employed as a dental hygienist. But “old learning” had greatly assisted her in finishing her studies. Her difficulty with “new learning” made long-term..
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A $14.5 million settlement was reached Wednesday of a lawsuit filed in the case of a New Jersey youth who sustained brain damage after being struck by a line drive hit by an aluminum bat, according to The Record of North Jersey. http://www.northjersey.com/sports/145_million_settlement_reached_in_Louisville_slugger_case.html?page=all And yet some haters are accusing the..
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Betty Part Five: Betty discusses post coma therapy: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/speech-pathology-and-occupational-therapy/ For Betty occupational therapy was fun, but she hated speech pathology, probably because it was in speech where her deficits were the most significant. Yet it was the intense attention she got in speech therapy that likely contributed to her..
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The situation with military suicides doesn’t seem to be improving: July was marked by the most such suicides in a one-month period in recent memory. According to USA Today, last month there were 38 confirmed or suspected suicides in the Army, more than one a day. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-08-09/army-suicides/57096238/1 And at this..
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Betty Part Four: Brain injury = physical injury http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/severe-brain-injury-comes-with-physical-disability/ Betty was paralyzed for nearly two months after her injury and still has ongoing problems with left sided weakness. She also has vision and balance and likely has a form of seizure disorder that causes absence spells. In Part..
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The widow of movie director Tony Scott, who committed suicide by jumping off a California bridge Sunday, has denied that he had inoperable brain cancer, according to the Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-0821-scott-death-20120821,0,4205494,full.story Scott, 68 — the director of films ranging from “Top Gun” to “Crimson Tide” to “Days of Thunder”..
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Betty Part Three – Rehabilitation Begins: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/rehabilitation-begins-from-coma-subdural-hematoma/ Betty talks about what she can remember about her rehabilitation, including the common problem of confabulating stories. Confabulation is the process of replacing things that the injured mind can’t remember with fabrications, because the brain doesn’t like holes, so it fills in the..
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