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Mild TBI Increases Risk Of Addiction, Study Says

Posted on March 8, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem to be be plagued with problems when they come home and try to adjust to life back in the states.  Researchers have discovered one possible reason for that. A recent study of military members found that those who have sustained..
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College After Severe Brain Injury: Leaving Home

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College After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Nineteen   We’ve talked about that period right after your injury, we talked about the rehab, we’ve talked about school.  The one other area I want to talk about in specifics before we talk more about symptoms would be the transition to going to college..
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Actress Valerie Harper Dying Of Rare Brain Cancer

Posted on March 7, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Actress Valerie Harper, best known for her role as a stereotypically outspoken New Yorker in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” is dying of an unusual type of brain cancer, according to People magazine. And she’s using the experience as a teaching moment for America. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20679402,00.html?ncid=webmail2 In the shocking story 73-year-old ..
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Double Vision after TBI Prevented Return to Baseball

Posted on March 6, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Double Vision after TBI : Zach Part Eighteen  Brain injury is thought too much of as strictly a cognitive and behavioral disability. Yet, everything that a human does is controlled by our minds and the central nervous system.  When a brain suffers a severe injury, the deficits are not going to..
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Achievement After Brain Injury: Graduation Seemed Hollow

Posted on March 5, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Achievement After Brain Injury: Zach Part Seventeen Another area that Zach and Lethan’s stories run in parallel deals with the hollowness of what would seem to be the great achievement after brain injury of graduating on time from High School.  For Lethan, graduation became more of a time that set him..
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Is Brain-Injury Rehabilitation Effective?

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Since Pate Rehabilitation offers treatment and support programs for individuals recovering from acquired brain injuries, I guess it’s no surprise that Monday it touted publication of an article – by one of its founders — on the effectiveness of brain injury rehab. Dallas-based Pate Rehabilitation issued a press release on..
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Transition After Brain Injury: Lighter Class Load Eased

Posted on March 4, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Transition After Brain Injury: Zach Part Sixteen  With Zach’s return to high school he had a lot of understanding teachers which made it much more manageable for the transition after brain injury.   How did you manage with your transition after brain injury to get the academic work done? In the..
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Nebraska Heralds Brain Injury Month With Paper Cranes

Posted on March 2, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

A Nebraska group and a museum have come up with a novel way to heighten awareness of brain injury, according to the Associated Press. Residents across Nebraska volunteered to create cranes out of bright-colored paper, and Hastings Museum in Hastings, Neb., has hung them in its light well, AP reported...
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Accused Killer Uses Football Concussions As Defense

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It had to happen. An accused murderer’s defense at his trial includes blaming the concussions he suffered when he was a high school football star, according to the Boston Herald. http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/03/fujita_attorney_blames_head_injury The issue has been raised by a defense expert on behalf of Nathaniel Fujita, 20, who is on trial..
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No Athletics after TBI: Athletics is the Measuring Bar

Posted on March 1, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

No Athletics after TBI: Zach Part Fifteen I talked to Zach aabout the changes after brain injury that he experienced.  On of the biggest changes after brain injury was no athletics after TBI. What were the changes after brain injury once football starts again with no athletics after TBI? I was..
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