Even so-called recreational athletes, those who sustained head injuries back in their high school and college “glory” days, permanently impact their brains, according to The New York Times. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/does-a-long-ago-head-injury-pose-risks-for-the-everyday-athlete/ The Times wrote about a study that appeared in the journal of Cerebral Cortex in May. In that research, scientists at..
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Severe Brain Injury Frontal Lobe Issues: Michael Part Thirty Five We discussed a series of severe brain injury frontal lobe issues throughout our interview with Michael, but two he gave me some additional information about were difficulties with changes in routine and insight. How Michael Deals with his Severe..
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Psychological Medication Management: Michael Part Thirty-Four In part thirty-four Michael discusses the different Psychological Medications that he has been prescribed and how they effect him. You mentioned that when your mania gets to be a problem, you go through money quickly? Yes. Does the psychological medication help with that? I would say,..
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Brain Injury Time Management Challenges: Michael Part Thirty-Three In part Thirty-three Michael discusses his issues with brain injury time management that he has and the problems that it causes him. You managed to make it through the wedding. Do you have problems planning things because of brain injury time management?..
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Unfortunately, this should not be a surprise to people: A girl who came out of a coma in California has had to relearn basics and seems to have a a different personality. As the case of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords showed America, traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims don’t usually have..
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Singer Usher Raymond’s stepson has been declared brain dead after being injured in a Jet Ski accident in Atlanta, according to numerous press reports. http://www.mtv.ca/news/article.jhtml?id=44212 Kyle Glover, 11, suffered a traumatic brain injury Friday afternoon when he and a friend, both in an inner tube, were run over on Lake..
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Brain Injury Disinhibition: Michael Part Thirty-Two In Part thirty-one Michael talks about his brain injury disinhibition and the difficulties he has to control it in everyday life. There are a number of frontal lobe issues that you have touched on in examples and I wanted to cover some of those in..
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Chronic Unemployment after TBI- Michael Part Thirty-One In Part Thirty-One Michael talks about his chronic unemployment after his brain injury and how difficult it was for him to keep a job. At some point, two many jobs, for too short of time catches up with the disabled person, trying to..
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Some traumatic brain injury (TBI) stories do have a happy ending. Such seems to be the case with pitcher Darin Downs. Call Downs the comeback kid. Last week he was called up from the minors in Toledo by the Detroit Tigers. After what happened to him in August 2009, it’s..
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Getting Along with Co-Workers: Michael Part Thirty Perhaps the single biggest challenge for someone returning to work after a brain injury is the challenge of getting along with co-workers. Work is increasingly so not a place where an employee does his job in isolation. As employment environments have become less..
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