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Ben Vereen’s commitment to Brain Injury Goes Back Decades

Posted on July 21st, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

In the below AP story, Ben Vereen’s commitment to brain injury advocacy is discussed and applauded. We had the honor of meeting Mr. Vereen in the late 1990’s at another brain injury fundraising function, at a Mardi Gras celebration. A picture of Mr. Vereen and my co-advocate, Becca Martin is..
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Vereen hosts fundraiser for $32M brain center

Posted on July 21st, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 07/18/2008 05:53 PM By PEGGY HARRISAssociated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ Because of his own injuries, Ben Vereen seems like a natural to highlight a fundraiser for an institute that researches brain damage, but it took an introduction from the woman who walks his dog to make..
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Traumatic Brain Injury is not New to War on Terror

Posted on July 7th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

This post has been expanded and can now be found here: http://veteransbraininjury.com/nightmare-of-a-combat-brain-injury/ “Correct if I am wrong, but I think Traumatic Brain Injury is a new injury unique to the war in Iraq. Suffered by people who have concussive injuries from being near the explosions, not from being hit directly, but..
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Vietnam TBI Still Military Health Concern

Posted on June 18th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

This post has now been moved to our new site: http://veteransbraininjury.com/vietnam-brain-injury-biggest-military-health-issue/

Hysteria or Conversion Diagnosis in Combat

Posted on June 17th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

This post has now been moved to our new site: http://veteransbraininjury.com/hysteria-diagnosis-focuses-on-character-flaws/

Biomechanical Analysis Shows Cases of Shell Shock were TBI

Posted on June 16th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

This post has now been moved to our new site: http://veteransbraininjury.com/biomechanics-of-brain-injury-in-combat/

Anosmia Missed Sign of Brain Injury in Shell Shocked Soldiers

Posted on June 13th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

This post has now been moved to our new site: http://veteransbraininjury.com/loss-of-smell-missed-sign-of-brain-injury/

Amnesia in World War I Shell Shock Case Studies

Posted on June 12th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

This post has now been moved to our new site: http://veteransbraininjury.com/combat-amnesia-missed-marker-war-brain-injury/

World War I Soldiers with Shell Shock Likely TBI

Posted on June 11th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

This post has now been moved to our new site: http://veteransbraininjury.com/study-of-shell-shock-equals-tbi/

Shell Shock of World War I was TBI

Posted on June 10th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

This post has now been moved to our new site: http://veteransbraininjury.com/failure-to-identify-brain-injury/