Soldiers’ Art Shows What TBI Feels Like
Sometimes there are feelings and experiences that simply cannot be put into words. Traumatic brain injury is certainly one of those experiences, even though those of us in the field…
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Are The Eyes The Key To Diagnosing Brain Injury
In the search for better diagnosis of traumatic brain injury, researchers have looked everywhere. They have looked at brains with every type of scan they have, investigated biomarkers in the…
ReadThe U.S. Military Was Sending Concussed Soldiers Back To War
While the U.S. military has recently lept into traumatic brain injury research and awareness in the wake of the massive numbers of soldiers returning home with TBI, they haven’t always…
ReadRiddell Ignored Warning About Concussion Risks
In the conversation surrounding the NFL and Riddell’s brain injury litigation, there seem to be two camps of extremists. There are those that stand behind the mantra “they knew what…
ReadMost High School Athletes Won’t Report Concussion Symptoms
It has long been understood that self-reporting is a terrible diagnostic method for brain injury, but until recently there were few other ways to go about identifying possible brain injuries. For athletes,…
ReadTamerlan Tsarnaev: Boxing, Bombs, and Brain Injury
Two weeks after the tragic blasts in Boston that shook the world, we still know very little about the motivation behind the attacks. We have learned much about the two…
ReadIs the NCAA Better Than The NFL At Fighting TBI?
Many keeping up with brain injuries in football, myself included, have considered rule changes as an unlikely solution to the huge numbers of concussions on the field, because we have…
ReadDoes Traumatic Brain Injury Contribute To Violent Behavior?
Out of all of the issues that can haunt a traumatic brain injury patient, behavior control seems to be a common and extraordinarily tragic part of the puzzle. From depression, addiction, anxiety,…
ReadTBI Related Hormone Deficiency Mimics PTSD
Close to one fifth of the soldiers returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq are diagnosed with blast concussions, but many of these may actually have a rare hormone deficiency so…
ReadSeverity of Symptoms Indicates Prolonged TBI Recovery
Despite the previous ideas that age and amnesia are the primary indicators of prolonged recovery time for traumatic brain injury, a new study suggests that severity of a broader range…
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