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BrainLine News - October 2008

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In This Issue

- Did You Know?
- Resources and Events
- Research and News
- Ideas For Caregivers
- Inspiring Stories

Did You Know?

How to Help a Student with TBI
It can be challenging for a child to return to school after a TBI. "Classroom Interventions for Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries," from Preventing School Failure magazine, presents a variety of specific research-based learning strategies, behavioral interventions, and instructional interventions for educators who work with students with TBI.
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Depression Does Not Have to Be Debilitating
Healthy Minds is a 13-part award-winning TV series about the latest research and insights about mental illness, created to help reduce the stigma associated with psychiatric disease, which often prevents patients and their families from getting needed help. This 30-minute segment on depression features veteran newsman Mike Wallace and his wife Mary, who discuss how they dealt with his depression and reveal intimate details about his suicide attempt and ultimate recovery. From WLIW21 Public Television, in conjunction with NARSAD. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Third-party use restricted. www.wliw.org. Transcript of this Video.
November 24, 2008

Depression is a common reaction to TBI — both for the person who sustained the injury and for the family members. Learn more about what you can do to combat depression from veteran newsman Mike Wallace. This video is part of The Healthy Minds Series, produced by Public Television WEIW-21 on Long Island, in conjunction with the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD).
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Resources

Great TBI Resources from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Since 1991, RIC has been recognized as one of the top rehabilitation hospitals nationwide. They have a very strong program in traumatic brain injury and offer a great deal of resources like "Preventing Fatigue at Home and Work," "Driving Following a Brain Injury," and "Why Does My Loved One Act Out: A Family Guide to Emotional and Behavioral Changes After a Brain Injury."
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Research and News

Military Training Conference on State-of-the-Art Care in TBI
In late September, 800 military and veterans healthcare providers met in the nation’s capitol to hear from leading military and civilian experts on TBI. At the event, they received the most current information on screening, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation, and strategies for returning to work or duty for service members who sustain a TBI.
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Ideas For Caregivers

BrainLine Webcast Series Continues with Focus on Caregiving
BrainLine’s latest webcast is now available online. "Caregiving and TBI: What You Need to Know" features Dr. Nathan Zasler and two caregiver/advocates — Carolyn Rocchio and Sarah Wade — who discuss how TBI affects the whole family and how best to deal with the short- and long-term issues and challenges confronting a caregiver.
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Inspiring Stories

CBS News Correspondent Returns to the "Right" Side of the Camera
A car bomb in Iraq forced CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier out from behind the camera and into her own front-page story. Visit BrainLine.org to read an excerpt from her book Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report — and Survive — the War in Iraq.
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For more information about TBI, please come visit us at BrainLine.org.

All the best from BrainLine.
Noel Gunther, Executive Director
Christian Lindstrom, Director, Learning Media
Victoria Youcha, EdD, Director, BrainLine
Matthew Bruce, Web Manager
Victoria Tilney McDonough, Associate Editor
Elaine Phillips, MSP, CCC/SLP, Research Consultant
Theresa Rankin, Outreach Consultant
Brian King, Senior Multimedia Producer
Kimberley Larson, Web Designer
Ian Collins, Technical Web Manager
Leon Gittens, Project Administrator
Krystal Klingenberg, Project Coordinator

Newsletter editor: Victoria Tilney McDonough

About BrainLine
BrainLine is a service of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capitol.

BrainLine is funded by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the primary operational TBI component of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, through a subcontract award with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.

This material is based upon work supported by the USAMRAA under Contract Number W81XWH-07-C-0089. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USAMRAA.