Several hospitals in Minnesota’s Twin Cities have launched “Save This Brain” campaigns to get skiers, sledders and snowboarders to all wear helmets. One of the participants is the Traumatic Brain Injury Center at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), which in a press release Thursday said that it is reminding winter..
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Suicidal Side Effects of Medication: Craig Part Six Craig continues his story talking about the suicidal side effects of the medications that were prescribed to him by his doctor. He explains that his doctor was just trying to help but didn’t understand brain injury so he prescribed psychotropic drugs which..
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Last week Ohio joined the long list of states that have passed laws to protect young athletes who sustain concussions. Gov. John Kasich signed into law rules regarding concussions, which go into effect in 90 days, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. The new legislation mandates that all young athletes..
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Many Americans wouldn’t lose any sleep over a brutal murderer being given the death penalty and then swiftly executed. But some scientists and psychiatrists are questioning how fair that really is, since many killers have traumatic brain injury (TBI), which researchers say has affected their actions, particularly those related to..
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Ryan Freel Apparent Suicide May be Linked to Concussions Now, it’s not only football and hockey players who commit suicide after suffering concussions — and permanent brain damage — during their careers. Add professional baseball players to the list. Ryan Freel, an MLB player who had to end his career..
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Craig Part Five Craig discusses with us regarding his daughter and niece that were in the accident with him and their mild traumatic brain injury. Both his daughter and his niece went un-diagnosed at the time of the accident. His niece had a mild concussion and..
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The National Football League last week filed a brief arguing that an arbitrator, not a judge, should be dealing with the allegations brought by several thousand ex-players about concussions and long-term brain damage, according to SBNation.com. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2012/12/19/3777144/nfl-concussion-lawsuit-status The various lawsuits filed against the NFL over head injuries have been consolidated..
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A New Jersey jury had found that a Ramada Inn wasn’t liable for an incident that left a hotel guest brain damaged when he dove in a swimming pool to save his daughter from drowning, according to The Record of North Jersey. http://www.northjersey.com/news/Jury_absolves_Rochelle_Park_hotel_of_responsibility_in_near-drowning_in_pool.html In Superior Court in Hackensack Thursday, a..
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Before Traumatic Brain Injury: Craig Part Four Craig shares with us on who he was before traumatic brain injury and the dramatic changes in his life from before traumatic brain injury to after. At three weeks they think you’re stable enough to go home? Yes. But you don’t stay..
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Frontal Lobe Damage: Craig Part Three Craig Talks about the part of the brain that was damaged that caused his coma that he drifted in and out of. In his case it was frontal lobe damage. What part of your brain did you injure? What was the nature of your..
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