Cognitive Challenges Can Trigger Emotions: Quinn Part Seventeen Quinn goes into detail regarding his issues he has with different cognitive challenges he faces and the therapies that he received for some of his issues. The therapies included, speech, occupational and cognitive challenges therapy. We were talking about your therapies that..
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MIT researchers have developed a new way to monitor pressure in the brain, a method far less invasive than drilling a hole through a patient’s skull. MIT announced the new procedure in a press release it issued last Wednesday, which began by explaining that “brain tumors and head trauma, including concussions, can..
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A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can impair a patient’s medical decision-making ability at a time when patients or their families must make complex, sometimes life-and-death, decisions, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). http://www.uab.edu/news/latest/item/2237-head-injuries-often-impair-medical-decision-making-skills “Immediately following injury and during the rehabilitation and recovery period, patients and..
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After getting out of pro football, Alex Karras enjoyed a pretty good run as an actor. He played the character Mongo in Mel Brook’s hilarious spoof of Westerns, “Blazing Saddles.” And Karras played a dad in a 1980s sitcom, “Webster.” In a column Saturday, Associated Press writer Tim Dahlberg wrote..
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Military Brain Injuries Didn’t Originate in Iraq While the heightened concern about head injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan is a great step, the emphasis on TBI being the signature wound of those wars is completely misses the issue as to how big of a problem head injury has been..
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TBI Obstacles: Quinn Part Sixteen I continued with Quinn relative to his seizure concerns and then touched another one of his TBI obstacles, pressure waves and the problems he has with them. Have you had seizures? I have not had a seizure yet. Did you have one when you were..
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In what could be a big breakthrough, Eli Lilly & Co. has won approval from federal regulators for an imaging test that detects the brain plaque that’s a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug maker received the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last Friday, and..
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One can get a concussion in the most unusual, and public, places, national television included. That’s what happened to actress Melissa Gilbert Monday night during “Dancing With The Stars.” Gilbert was taken to the hospital, which was a very smart move, after she fell and banged her head while dancing..
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Here’s yet another report of an oil rig worker being killed on the job. The death of David James, 56, on an man-made island off Alaska is being investigated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), according to the Alaska Dispatch. http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/falling-beam-may-have-killed-oil-field-worker#.T4QjHL8D6nA.mailto James’ employer, Doyon Drilling, is mum on..
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Headaches after Severe Brain Injury: Quinn Part Fifteen Quinn talks about the headaches after severe brain injury that he still encounters. He describes his headaches after severe brain injury as if his head is surfing. As we’re doing this interview, it’s now 14 months, 16 months since your injury. Yes. Quinn..
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