Part Eight Deals with Vocational Issues http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/return-to-work-from-tbi-without-treatment-or-rehabilitation/ As the severity of Angela’s brain injury was poorly understood in the first month after her injury, Angela returned to work, before, not after she got rehabilitation. While sometimes that can work, as it did with out story of Gina, it requires..
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There is so much research being done on potential drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease that I can’t even keep track of it all, but my alma mater Northwestern University is doing what could be breakthrough. Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine is doing trials of a potential new class of drugs..
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Part Seven (how Angela uses an Ipad to accommodate TBI) is at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/use-of-the-ipad-to-accomodate-tbi/ The previous part’s discussion about amnesia and memory transitioned to Angela’s explanation of how she currently uses an iPad to assist her. Before she got her iPad, she had relied on multiple notebooks to remember things,..
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Out of the horror of the “Dark Knight” massacre last week has come a miracle: A young musician who was shot in the head apparently hasn’t suffered major brain damage. How? She has a birth defect, discovered as the result of her gunshot wound, that saved her. The woman, 22-year-old..
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Part Six of Angela’s story is at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/amnesia-and-what-angela-cant-remember/ Actual amnesia after brain injury is much different than the way it is portrayed in the movies. Rarely, does brain damage cause the injury person to forget who they were or life’s events. Almost all brain injury amnesia relates to a..
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Singer Usher’s stepson, who was declared brain-dead after a Jet Ski accident, died Saturday after he was taken off life support, according to the Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-usher-stepson-dead-kile-glover-tameka-raymond,0,3861923.story Kile Glover, 11, had been in the hospital since the July 6 mishap. He and a friend were floating in an inner..
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Angela Part Five Part Five of Angela’s story at http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/tbi-symptoms-and-stress-a-brains-decompensation-because-of-pathology/ Mood issues are pervasive after a brain injury, but can also distract diagnosticians focus from the pathology of the injury to the non-organic explanations of what happened. In properly assessing the mood issues after Angela’s injury, it is important..
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This just in from the UK: Oldsters who drink up a storm risk brain damage. A study done by British scientists found a link between binge drinking, which is defined as having four or more alcoholic beverages at one sitting, and later memory loss and cognitive decline, according to the..
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Researchers are excited about the prospects for an immune-disorder drug that, at least in initial tests, halted the progression of Alzheimer’s disease for three years, according to USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-07-16/alzheimers-treatment-gammagard/56270084/1 Scientists announced the results of their study involving Gammagard, which is manufactured by Baxter International, at last week’s Alzheimer’s Association..
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The father of a 6-year-old girl who sustained brain injury after being hit by a foul ball at an Atlanta Braves game has filed suit against the team, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/lawsuit-filed-for-girl-1480479.html The Braves, team parent Liberty Media Corp., and Major League Baseball Enterprises were named as defendants..
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