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Angela-Dealing with the Emotions of Other People

Posted on August 9, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

In Part Fifteen,  Angela Discusses Dealing with Others Emotions: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/brain-injury-makes-others-peoples-emotions-catastrophic/   The old adage in business is that the customer is always right.  While Angela is wired so that she values making other people happy, she now has severe difficulty any time anyone is upset with her.  She is concerned..
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NFL Concussions Saw Slight Decline In 2011 Season

Posted on August 8, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The National Football League seems to be having some success in its efforts to curtail concussions. Largely due to the league’s changes in kickoff rules, last season overall concussions dropped to 266 from 270 the prior season, according to Edgeworth Economics, a consulting firm. Concussions at kickoff plummeted by 43..
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Angela-Re-employment obstacles after brain injury

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In Part Fourteen Angela talks about re-employment obstactles after brain injury: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/mistakes-and-reliability-two-of-the-biggest-reemployment-obstacles-after-a-brain-injury/   Before Angela got hurt, she was the person people turned to make sure everything got done by the book. Now the risk of mistakes would require someone to be constantly checking up on her.  Employers can theoretically..
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Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson Pull Plug On Alzheimer’s Drug Trials

Posted on August 7, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Here’s another discouraging setback in the research for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. On Monday Pfizer Inc. and Johnson & Johnson announced that they were shelving late-stage clinical trials of a drug, bapineuzumab, that many had believed would be the first to be approved by federal regulators to slow Alzheimer’s...
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Angela-Working With A Brain Injury

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Part Thirteen Angela tells about working with TBI: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/reemployment-after-tbi-vocational-losses-persist/   Despite her clear areas of strength, Angela is nonetheless, still significantly disabled, because of the decompensation that her brain does any time it is in a potentially stressful environment.  Making matters worse, any type of distraction makes cognitive functioning harder..
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Weekend Hospital Stays For Brain-Injured Elderly Prove More Deadly

Posted on August 6, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

A Johns Hopkins study has found that the elderly who suffer major head trauma during a weekend are more likely to die of their injuries than those similarly hurt, but hospitalized during the week,” even if their injuries are less severe and they have fewer other illnesses than their weekday..
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N.J. Suit About Aluminum Bats And Brain Injury Set For Trial

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Should lightweight aluminum bats be used in Little League games? The family of a Wayne, N.J., boy who sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) after being hit by a ball during a game in 2006 doesn’t think so. A trial on the issue has been set for Sept. 10 in state..
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Angela-Talking Too Much

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Part Twelve: the frontal lobe deficit of too much talking http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/uncontrolled-talking-after-tbi-logorrhea/   One major problem with brain injury diagnosis, is that the methodologies rarely take into account real world communication challenges that many brain injured people have.  One such issue with Angela is logorrhea, a tendency to talk too much,..
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Beating Concussion Keeps Wisconsin Badgers Montee Ball Out Of Camp

Posted on August 3, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Wisconsin Badgers running back Montee Ball, recovering from a concussion after being assaulted by a group of men in Madison, will not be able to start practice on Monday, according to several published reports. http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8228580/wisconsin-badgers-coach-says-montee-ball-ready-camp The news was revealed by Badgers’ coach Bret  Bielema during the taping of a TV..
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Angela-Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury

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  In Part Eleven Angela’s own words on the consequences of TBI. http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/from-a-butterfly-to-a-tbi-survivor/   In another of Angela’s essays, she analogizes her post brain injury transformation to that of a caterpillar to a butterfly, but in reverse. Her musing traverses the question of whether she is starting over in a..
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