Part Sixteen- Shopping After a TBI: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/shopping-after-a-tbi-an-overload-of-the-decision-making-process/ Shopping is difficult for most brain injury survivors. Making a trip to the grocery store even harder for her is the environmental distractions, such as florescent lights or the crush of too many customers. At such times she will have a grocery..
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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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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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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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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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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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New research indicates that just one traumatic injury to the brain can lead to Alzheimer’s disease. The study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, identifies the complex mechanisms that result in a rapid and robust post-injury elevation of the enzyme, BACE1, in the brain. And these results, perhaps, will lead..
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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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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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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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