Neuroscience “is a priority” at Stanford University, the school’s president said Saturday during a panel on “Gray Matters.” http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/october/roundtable-gray-matters-100612.html The roundtable on brain research, and how it can be applied in everyone’s life, was moderated by ABC News’ Juju Chang, a Stanford alumni. The panel included Stanford President John Hennessy;..
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It’s a shame that innocent people — in this case, five of meningitis– have to die. Perhaps now the government will take a serious look at closing a gaping hole in public safety. Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you are aware that there is a rare fungal meningitis..
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Prior to Brain Injury: Lori Part Four In this part we talk to Lori about who she was prior to brain injury. What was her life like prior to the accident and prior to brain injury. Let’s talk about who you were before you got hurt prior to brain..
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Brain Pathology : Lori Part Three In Part Three we will discuss with Lori her brain pathology and the nature of her injuries. She states that the left parietal brain pathology is the part that was injured. We also talk about the her parents grief and how to this day it..
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I recently read an Op-Ed piece that did the best job I’ve seen of explaining why it’s crucial for the United States to more aggressively find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. In The Star-Ledger of New Jersey, writer Kerry Lonergan Luksic compared Alzheimer’s to a Category 5 hurricane “barreling toward..
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A former Mrs. Idaho sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) this summer, but is on the road to recovery, according to NWCN.com. The ex-beauty queen was slated to appear on “The Today Show” yesterday, Monday. http://www.nwcn.com/home/?fId=172014071&fPath=/news/local&fDomain=10227 Jamie Hilton, who was Mrs. Idaho 2009, had a spill in Hells Canyon, Idaho,..
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Severity of TBI: Lori Part Two There are primarily two methods to classify the severity of TBI, the length of coma (or loss of consciousness) and the length of amnesia. In assessing amnesia, it is not so much the loss of memory for events before the injury that is significant (retrograde..
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Brain Injury Accident: Lori Part One A normal morning, vivid in Lori Faitel’s mind because of the normality of it, fractured in her memory because of the unexpected event that changed her life. It was April 25th, 1986, a moment in time that dictated the direction of Lori’s future. A motor..
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Loni Sue Johnson with Severe Memory Loss Whenever I hear about cases of dramatic amnesia, it breaks my heart. And that was certainly the case when I read an article about Lonni Sue Johnson, a once-talented artist and musician, whose story was told by The Star-Ledger of Newark Sunday. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/rare_amnesia_case_in_nj_artist.html..
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Doug Concludes with Part Eight – Community Integration: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/doug-story-concludes-community-integration/ TBI survivors are often thrown back to earlier developmental stages to re-learn important tasks that their injured brain forgot how to do. This is often seen in speech and physical therapy where a TBI survivor must, like a young child, learn..
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