Part Nineteen – Angela’s Final Blog: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/depression-anxiety-and-survival-after-traumatic-brain-injury/ For Angela, being depressed is more than a reactive sadness. Depression is something she wakes up with every day. Despite her best efforts to rededicate herself daily to being happy, that depression never leaves her. Her life is now the ying..
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Actress Kristin Chenoweth Concussion Perhaps this will drive home the point that concussions are serious business. Actress Kristin Chenoweth, after sustaining a brain injury on location for “The Good Wife” on July 11, issued a statement Monday saying that she won’t be returning to the CBS show. “It is with..
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Think twice about buying that popcorn the next time you go to see a movie. A new study has found that diacetyl, a flavor ingredient used to make popcorn taste buttery, may cause Alzheimer’s disease, according to a story on WebMD. http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20120808/popcorn-butter-flavorant-linked-to-alzheimers Research, published in the online edition of Chemical..
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Angela Part Eighteen – TBI and Self Insight: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/insight-into-oneself-is-changed-by-brain-damage/ The issue of insight after brain injury is far more complex than typically thought. Insight is situational and often the brain injured person has great insight into the mistakes they make, after the fact. But being able to anticipate those..
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It’s a story that’s been told again and again, but this rendition is particularly heart-breaking. It is the story of Major Ben Richards, a brilliant West Point graduate, who went to Iraq and came back a broken man. Like many veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, Richards’ wounds aren’t visible to..
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Part Seventeen – Relationships: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/impaired-relationships-and-intimacy-after-a-traumatic-brain-injury/ The need to be loved is not erased by a brain injury, just made more difficult to fulfill. Despite ongoing efforts to find self actualization in life as a wife/domestic partner, that role has also been to cognitively and emotionally taxing for her as..
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O.J. Murdock’s family has done the right thing: They’ve donated his brain to scientists who are studying whether concussions lead to depression and long-term mental degeneration in football players. Murdock, a Tennessee Titan, on July 30 joined a growing list of NFL players who have committed suicide. He shot himself..
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Migraines are a brain, not a vascular, disorder, contrary to what was believed in the past. Armed with that knowledge, scientists who are trying to find a treatment for migraines are focusing their research on the brain chemical calcitonin gene-related peptide neurotransmitter, known as CGRP, according to The Wall Street..
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Part Sixteen- Shopping After a TBI: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/shopping-after-a-tbi-an-overload-of-the-decision-making-process/ Shopping is difficult for most brain injury survivors. Making a trip to the grocery store even harder for her is the environmental distractions, such as florescent lights or the crush of too many customers. At such times she will have a grocery..
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By the end of next month, people with Alzheimer’s disease will learn whether an experimental drug can halt the progression of their ailment, or if it is a failure like a similar medication that Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson were testing. Drug maker Eli Lilly has told analysts that it..
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