CTE confirmed in college athlete’s death by suicide
We previously wrote a blog about Kosta Karageorge right after his tragic death in 2014. Karageorge was an Ohio State football player and former wrestler whose life ended with a self-inflicted…
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Another Son Lost: Football, CTE and Suicide
As a mother, when your child is born, you never imagine his life ending with a death by suicide while you sit helpless on the other end of the phone…
ReadRetired NFL Player Comments on Kosta Karageorge’s Death by Suicide: “The whole game needs to change.”
“The whole game needs to change, and, again, I don’t know if anyone’s going to embrace it,” George Visger said in an interview with 19 Action News in Cleveland. Visger…
ReadToxic Leadership May Be Contributing Factor to Veteran Suicides
On January 6th, 2014, National Public Radio (NPR) released an eye opening report on how destructive leadership within the Army may be a contributing factor to suicide in combat veterans.…
ReadVietnam Vets Shed Light on Suicidal Thoughts
A study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco has noted that veterans with more experiences involving killing were twice…
ReadSoldiers, Suicide and TBI
Though we’ve seen greater effort to address traumatic brain injuries and suicide rates of military personnel in the past several years, TIME magazine recently reported that there were 32 suspected…
ReadStuck in time and suicide: A link to the brain
Are the brains of people who think about suicide or attempt to take their lives different? For years we have attributed the feelings of hopelessness and despair associated with suicide…
ReadEver Forget a Familiar Face?
The noted neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, M.D., is a person with prosopagnosia, in other words an inability to recognize faces. Click here for the interview with Doctors Oliver Sacks…
ReadSuicide and Traumatic Brain Injury
This week I am presenting on the topic of Suicide and Traumatic Brain Injury at the Silent Wounds of War: Addressing the Needs of Our Returning Vets conference in Tulsa,…
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