Part Seventeen – Relationships: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/impaired-relationships-and-intimacy-after-a-traumatic-brain-injury/ The need to be loved is not erased by a brain injury, just made more difficult to fulfill. Despite ongoing efforts to find self actualization in life as a wife/domestic partner, that role has also been to cognitively and emotionally taxing for her as..
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O.J. Murdock’s family has done the right thing: They’ve donated his brain to scientists who are studying whether concussions lead to depression and long-term mental degeneration in football players. Murdock, a Tennessee Titan, on July 30 joined a growing list of NFL players who have committed suicide. He shot himself..
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Migraines are a brain, not a vascular, disorder, contrary to what was believed in the past. Armed with that knowledge, scientists who are trying to find a treatment for migraines are focusing their research on the brain chemical calcitonin gene-related peptide neurotransmitter, known as CGRP, according to The Wall Street..
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Part Sixteen- Shopping After a TBI: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/shopping-after-a-tbi-an-overload-of-the-decision-making-process/ Shopping is difficult for most brain injury survivors. Making a trip to the grocery store even harder for her is the environmental distractions, such as florescent lights or the crush of too many customers. At such times she will have a grocery..
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By the end of next month, people with Alzheimer’s disease will learn whether an experimental drug can halt the progression of their ailment, or if it is a failure like a similar medication that Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson were testing. Drug maker Eli Lilly has told analysts that it..
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In Part Fifteen, Angela Discusses Dealing with Others Emotions: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/brain-injury-makes-others-peoples-emotions-catastrophic/ The old adage in business is that the customer is always right. While Angela is wired so that she values making other people happy, she now has severe difficulty any time anyone is upset with her. She is concerned..
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The National Football League seems to be having some success in its efforts to curtail concussions. Largely due to the league’s changes in kickoff rules, last season overall concussions dropped to 266 from 270 the prior season, according to Edgeworth Economics, a consulting firm. Concussions at kickoff plummeted by 43..
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In Part Fourteen Angela talks about re-employment obstactles after brain injury: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/mistakes-and-reliability-two-of-the-biggest-reemployment-obstacles-after-a-brain-injury/ Before Angela got hurt, she was the person people turned to make sure everything got done by the book. Now the risk of mistakes would require someone to be constantly checking up on her. Employers can theoretically..
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Here’s another discouraging setback in the research for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. On Monday Pfizer Inc. and Johnson & Johnson announced that they were shelving late-stage clinical trials of a drug, bapineuzumab, that many had believed would be the first to be approved by federal regulators to slow Alzheimer’s...
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Part Thirteen Angela tells about working with TBI: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/reemployment-after-tbi-vocational-losses-persist/ Despite her clear areas of strength, Angela is nonetheless, still significantly disabled, because of the decompensation that her brain does any time it is in a potentially stressful environment. Making matters worse, any type of distraction makes cognitive functioning harder..
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