Archive for April, 2012

Decision Making After Severe TBI: Challenges

Posted on April 30th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Decision Making After Severe TBI: Quinn Part Twenty-Seven I turned to a discussion of Quinn’s frontal lobe issues with his wife.  Some frontal lobe issues such as decision making after severe TBI: You said he had a child-like dependency when he came home.  Is that less than it was? Less so..
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Oil Industry To Address Safety Issues At Houston Conference

Posted on April 29th, 2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

Houston Chronicle columnist Loren Steffy Saturday offered a thoughtful, and critical, column about the U.S. oil industry and its unwillingness to take responsibility safety issues. http://www.chron.com/business/steffy/article/Steffy-Safety-and-prevention-to-dominate-OTC-3518508.php Ostensibly, the column was a preview of a major trade show that starts this week in Houston, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). But Steffy..
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Kentucky Fried Chicken Told to Pay $8.3 Million to Brain-Damaged Girl

Posted on April 29th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

An Australia court has ordered the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain to pay $8.3 million to the family of a girl who suffered severe brain damage after eating a chicken wrap. Monika Samaan was a 7-year-old in October 2005 when she got salmonella poisoning, salmonella encephalopathy, after having a chicken meal..
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‘Cocktail-Party Effect’: Brain Can Only Concentrate On One Thing

Posted on April 27th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Who knew that our behavior at cocktail parties could teach us a lesson about the brain? The Wall Street Journal last week did a story on research that was conducted by the University of California in San Francisco, a study that was published recently in the Nature journal.  It’s all..
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Boxers’ Brains Exhibit Changes Even Before Symptoms Of Damage Appear

Posted on April 27th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

A pioneering study on boxers has found that their brains undergo changes after repeated blows, changes before they show any symptoms, according to a story this week in The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/health/research/study-shows-changes-in-fighters-brains-before-symptoms.html?_r=1 The article was about research being conducted by the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health...
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Disinhibition after Severe Brain Injury Lingers

Posted on April 27th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Disinhibition after Severe Brain Injury: Quinn Part Twenty-Six Quinn still suffers from the frontal lobe issue and and executive functioning issue of disinhibition after severe brain injury. We’ve covered a number of executive functioning and frontal lobe issues in our conversation but we haven’t specifically addressed them in a more systematic..
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TBI Fatigue and Mood Issues:Fatigue Brings Out Mood Issues

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

TBI Fatigue and Mood Issues: Quinn Part Twenty-Five In our last part, we discussed the changed dynamic from lover to caregiver that causes so much friction in marriages after severe brain injury.  Quinn’s wife continued to search for explanations of TBI fatigue and mood issues and how they go together: You’re..
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Oil Rig Worker Pinned And Killed In Oklahoma City

Posted on April 24th, 2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

Here’s another oil rig death for you, this one in Oklahoma City. Peter Cleeland, 45, died Monday night when he was pinned under a heavy piece of equipment, according to Koco.com. http://www.koco.com/news/30948502/detail.html#ixzz1szYlaTbJ Cleeland was killed when a hydraulic line broke at an oil rig at  Southeast 59th Street. He was..
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Oil Industry Needs To Train Younger Workforce On Safety

Posted on April 24th, 2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

The oil industry is crowing that it learned valuable safety lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster two years ago, where 11 workers were killed, according to a recent report by Vermont Public Radio (VPR). But any such knowledge doesn’t address the new issue the industry faces, which is that its..
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Tangible TBI Deficits With Further Recovery

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

Tangible TBI Deficits: Quinn Part Twenty-Four Quinn Part Twenty Four  –  Further Recovery Leaves Tangible TBI Deficits   In our previous part, Quinn’s wife describes how time and the ability to return to his normal depression meds had helped him return to a more normal function. Yet tangible TBI deficits remain: Has..
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