So far this year suicides have taken more lives of active-duty troops than actual combat in Afghanistan, according to the Associated Press. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2012/06/08/military-suicides-average-one-a-day.html Military suicides are soaring in 2012 as the psychological toll of years of fighting was in Iraq and Afghanistan appears to have pushed many soldiers over the..
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Here’s some rather alarming research: A study had found evidence that CT scans in kids increases the risk for brain cancer and leukemia. The results of the study, which was published online in the British journal Lancet, last week were widely reported in the media, including The New York Times...
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Nearly 100 concussion lawsuits filed by ex-pro players against the NFL are being consolidated, according to various press reports. http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/nfl/la-sp-nfl-concussions-20120608,0,2393930.story On Thursday lawyers, representing more than 2,000 former NFL players who claim they’ve sustained permanent brain damage under suffering concussions, filed a complaint to consolidate some 85 suits, according to..
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Life with TBI Goes On: Michael Part Eighteen It has been some time since we visited with Michael as our interview was interrupted last summer and now it is April of the next year. Michael talks about how life with TBI goes on. How Life with TBI Goes On..
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Attentional Issues and Fatigues Part In Them: Michael Part Seventeen Michael talks about the issues he has with fatigue and the problems he has with the effect on his attentional issues. He explains causes his fatigue. Fatigue a Major Attentional Issue Lets about fatigue as an attenional issue. Do..
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Sheryl Crow is a breast cancer survivor. And she will also apparently be a brain tumor survivor. Crow shocked her fans when she told The Las Vegas Review-Journal that she has a brain tumor last week. The tumor is benign, according to Crow, but it has affected her mind. http://www.lvrj.com/news/sheryl-crow-has-reason-to-forget-157158445.html?ref=445..
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Learning with Brain Injury: Michael Part Sixteen Michael elaborates on how learning with brain injury is different than before his traumatic brain injury. Let‘s focus on the process of learning with brain injury. You have 202 credits and the majority of those would have been after you got hurt, correct?..
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TBI Magnified Learning Disability: Michael Part Fifteen Michael was getting accommodations at the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh for dyslexia before he got hurt. But the TBI magnified learning disability has made it more difficult than before the brain injury. These are issues that you had before you got hurt..
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Return to College After Brain Injury: Michael Part Fourteen Michael talks about his experience with his return to college after brain injury and the difficulties he had with it. He required a lot more help than before his TBI. Ultimately you left Louisville and went back to college. So..
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The family of a Texas boy, who sustained traumatic brain injury in a traffic accident, has reached a confidential settlement of a lawsuit that charged that an Applebee’s restaurant served more than 20 drinks to a patron, who later caused the crash. http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/30/4525576/family-of-brain-injured-child.html Abdallah Khader, now 6, suffered extensive brain..
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