Here’s a new finding regarding kids and head injury: Brain changes in children who’ve sustained a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), or concussion, last for months after that injury — even after the symptoms of the injury are gone, according to a study published this week in The Journal of..
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Elizabeth Part Nine – Mood and Social Challenges After Traumatic Brain Injury http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/elizabeth-part-nine-mood-and-social-challenges/ In this segment Elizabeth describes her mood swings which are frequent and unpredictable. A look or word from someone which she doesn’t understand can set her off. Her husband corroborates that she becomes easily frustrated...
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A fascinating class-action lawsuit was filed earlier this month by a group of Vietnam War veterans, alleging that they were suffering from then-undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when they given other-than-honorable discharges. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Connecticut on Dec. 3, seeks to have those discharges upgraded...
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Elizabeth Part 8 – Frontal Deficits After Brain Injury Since much of our frontal lobe development happens in teenage/early adult years, adult behaviors are often impacted when frontal lobe injury occurs. Although Elizabeth describes her cognitive knowledge to be like an eighth grader, this also pertains to her ability to..
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The U.S. military has awarded an Andover, Mass., company contracts valued at$19.3 million to develop and assess psychological health and traumatic brain injury (TBI) treatment best practices, the company said last week. http://finance.boston.com/boston/news/read/22906739/drc_awarded_$19.3_million_in_contracts_to_advance_psychological_health_and_traumatic_brain_injury_treatment_practices_for_military_healthcare Dynamics Research Corp., a management consulting firm to federal and state governments, was awarded two new task..
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is apparently actually taking a step to secure more benefits for military members who have suffered traumatic brain injury (TBI). The New York Times reported Friday that the VA is proposing regulations that will make it easier for veterans to get treatment and compensation for..
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Elizabeth Part 7 – Challenges of Running a Home After TBI Elizabeth’s discusses the challenges her brain injury poses to her responsibilities at home. These include taking longer to do certain tasks, making accommodations for doing the laundry to avoid going up and down stairs, difficulty with organization and finding..
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Elizabeth Part Six – Memory and Cognitive Challenges Elizabeth discusses her challenges related to memory and understanding. Listening is much harder than talking since it requires keeping focused and trying to understand what is being said. Often, something has to be said multiple times for her to finally understand it...
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I thought it made sense to publish most of the press release that Boston University put out this week about the extensive study it did on the brains of many deceased athletes and soldiers. The research found that they were suffering from the progressive degenerative brain disease that’s been linked..
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All the pundits are now raising the question that I asked days ago: Did Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher kill his girlfriend and then commit suicide in front of his coach and GM because of brain damage from playing football? Author Derek Flood mused on the issue in a..
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