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Even Small Improvements Post-Brain Injury Can Help the Body and the Mind

Rehabilitation to help with functional skills may help with depression as well.

Elliot Roth, MD

Topic:

Behavioral & Emotional Symptoms

Depression

Rehabilitation

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Stress and Stress Management Post-TBI

Why does stress exacerbate a person’s brain injury symptoms?

Celeste Campbell, PsyD

Topic:

Anxiety & Stress

Why Are So Many Veterans Homeless?

More than half of the newly homeless diagnosed with mental disorders had received that diagnosis before homelessness.

HBOT: A Way to Heal the Injured Brain?

Dr. Bruce Gottlieb likens hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a catalyst, "like Miracle-Gro for your lawn. The soil has to be good for it to work.”

Five Ways Caregivers Directly Impact TBI Outcome

"It’s my personal belief that the quality of fulltime care someone with TBI receives during the first two years post injury has the potential to greatly impact outcome."

Writing to Heal: The Veterans Writing Project

One Army vet with PTSD started the Veterans Writing Project to help others like him heal through writing.

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For Adolescents with TBI, Getting Help with Plan B

If a student with TBI fails in college, go back to your family and circle of support to see what went wrong and what you can do differently to succeed in college or work.

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Dr. Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa talks about her program where peer counselors use their own experiences moving forward after a TBI to teach other adolescents positive and effective habits.

A Natural Way to Restore the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Rosemary talks with Electra Liatos, a certified massage therapist, whose "fingers of love" have done just as much healing for Hugh and Rosemary as any other medicine.

The Power of Mountain Pose — and Beyond

The Power of Mountain Pose â€” and Beyond

Janna Leyde, writer, yoga teacher, and daughter of a father with severe TBI, asks: "So how do we reconnect the mind and body? How do we find ourselves in the now?"

Anger Following Brain Injury

Anger is a very common problem after a brain injury. Learn how to understand and deal with different kinds of anger.

Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

Seguridad de Ingreso Suplementario (SSI)

Learn more about what Supplemental Security Income is, who can get it, and how to apply.

Disability Benefits

Learn more about the benefits of the Social Security disability program, who can qualify, and how to apply.

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Tips for Transitioning Back to Academia After a Brain Injury

For Kelli Gary, PhD, one of the hardest lessons she learned was that she had accept the slow process of rebuilding her skills after brain injury in order to ultimately succeed at college.

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A New Start, a New School After Brain Injury

Kelli Gary, PhD: "A New Start, a New School"

Even today, after earning her PhD and two masters degrees, Kelli Gary, PhD knows that, with a TBI, sometimes you have to take one step back in order to take two steps forward.

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Kelli Gary, PhD on Her Crash and Her First Attempt to Return to College

After five months in acute rehab following her car crash, Kelli Gary, PhD returned to college and tried to do what she had always done. Within two months, she was flunking out. She needed a new plan.

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Go at Your Own Pace When Returning to School After a Brain Injury

Speaking from personal experience, Kelli Gary, PhD knows how difficult and frustrating it can be to have to learn to study and think in entirely different ways. "But don't give up," she says. "It can be done!"

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Balancing School, Work, and the Recovery Process After Brain Injury

Kelli Gary, PhD talks about how she balanced graduate school with getting work experience and going slowly to achieve all of her goals post-brain injury.

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Kelli Gary, PhD on Her Hard Fought Degree in Occupational Therapy

In college after her brain injury, Kelli Gary, PhD determined her major then worked diligently and resourcefully to succeed in getting her degree.

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Meet Kelli Williams Gary, PhD

In 1990, Kelli Gary fell asleep at the wheel and sustained a severe brain injury. Along a bumpy but ultimately successful path, Dr. Gary earned her bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees, and a PhD.