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Traumatic Brain Injury and Suicide in Military
Blast Injury has come a long way from Shell Shock People in the military who suffer more than one mild traumatic brain injury face a significantly higher risk of suicide. Veterans and deployed military...
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury After Blast Injury
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury After Blast Injury The Journal of Neurotrauma recently published findings by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Mild traumatic brain injury after...
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Environmental Enriching
Environmental Enrichment "Environmental enrichment may protect against brain atrophy in the chronic stages of traumatic brain injury," was published September 24 in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, by...
View ArticleBlast Injury
Blasts may cause brain injury even without symptoms: Veteran study Veterans exposed to explosions who do not report symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI) may still have damage to the brain’s white...
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The Brain on Fear
Even if people forget the details of a traumatic event or what is called explicit memory, the emotions associated with that event also known as implicit memory may remain ingrained in the brain for a...
View ArticleBrain Injury Association Of America Legislative Update December 2014
The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) asked me to share this Legislative Update for December 2014. Congress returned from the Thanksgiving holiday this week to address a number of pending...
View ArticleHelmet Update
Ms. Cheryl K. Chumley posted the following blog about the use of defective helmets for the military: defective since they can actually make blast head injury worse than with no helmet. Ms. Chumley...
View ArticleBrain Injury Causes Chronic Degenerative Changes
There is a widespread misunderstanding about the true nature of traumatic brain injury and how it causes chronic degenerative problems, researchers argue. The authors propose that chronic brain damage...
View ArticleSmell Test Helps Predict Traumatic Brain Injury In Blast Injury
Decreased ability to identify specific odors can predict abnormal neuroimaging results in blast-injured troops, according to a new study by Federal researchers released online in the journal Neurology,...
View ArticleBrain Injury Association Legislative Update July 2015
Hearing Held on Social Security Disability System This week, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to debate an overhaul of the bankrupt Social Security Disability System. Lawmakers are...
View ArticlePTSD
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have devastating consequences. Both are associated with high rates of disability and suicide, and although they are separate...
View ArticleNeurological Disease Act
The Brain Injury Association of America updated its legislative progress on June 24, 2016. Advancing Research for Neurological Diseases Act Brain injury advocates have helped get the Advancing...
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Best Jobs For Those with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Occasionally I am privileged to post a guest blog. Folks contact me interested in my niche of law and medicine and ask me to review a potential post. This one is from Julia Merrill discussing best...
View ArticleLegislative Update July 2016 Congress Goes Home
July 2016 Here is the legislative update from the Center for Neuroskills and the Brain Injury Association of America. With Congress adjourned and in their home districts, advocates have an excellent...
View ArticleUnemployment and Suicide Risk
I am again featuring Julia Merrill as guest blogger. Julia has been publishing tips and comments on how the signs, symptoms and consequences of traumatic brain injury affects peoples lives. This week...
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Happy Holidays & American Association for Justice 2016
Happy Holidays!! My best and most sincere wishes to all my friends, family and colleagues: A most happy, joyful, peaceful, and prosperous New Year. American Association for Justice The Traumatic Brain...
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Traumatic Brain Injury Victims versus President Trump and Republican Congress
The Brain Injury Association of America enriches us with activity in government updates. Of particular interest is the deconstruction of our nation’s health care. The Affordable Care Act is being...
View ArticleAmerican Health Care Act Limits Brain Injury
At a time when Americans are concerned about health care being too expensive, the AHCA raises premiums 20 percent, charges people over the age of 50 five times more than younger enrollees and...
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