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BrainSTARS: New Learning

BrainSTARS: New Learning

Use classroom performance, not global scores on intelligence and achievement testing, as your guide to instructional objectives and modifications for kids with TBI.

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Are High Altitudes Bad for Someone who Sustained a Brain Injury?

Are High Altitudes Bad for Someone who Sustained a Brain Injury?

A mother wants to know if her daughter should go skydiving.

Jeffrey Bazarian, MD

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Living with Traumatic Brain Injury

Sports Injuries

Not All Nutritional Supplements Are Safe After Brain Injury

Not All Nutritional Supplements Are Safe After Brain Injury

Nutritional supplements can have positive — and negative effects on short-term memory.

Planning Your Estate

Ask the Expert: Planning Your Estate

Advice on how to provide long-term financial care for a loved one with a brain injury after you are gone.

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Using Anti-Depressants After TBI?

Ask the Expert: Using Anti-Depressants After TBI?

Are they safe? Do they help?

Recognizing TBI in Substance Abuse Support Groups

Ask the Expert: Recognizing TBI in Substance Abuse Support Groups

Symptoms from brain injury and addiction can seem the same.

Increased Muscle Spasticity After Traumatic Brain Injury

Ask the Expert: Spasticity After TBI

What is muscle spasticity, why does it occur after TBI, and how is it treated?

Staying Sober After a Brain Injury

Ask the Expert: Staying Sober After a Brain Injury

If you went to AA meetings before TBI, keep going.

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Avoiding Substance Abuse After Brain Injury?

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Is there a best treatment or is it all up to the individual?

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Changes in Taste and Smell After Brain Injury

Ask the Expert: Changes in Taste and Smell After Brain Injury

Almost 25% of people with TBI experience changes in taste and smell.

What to Know About Trusts and Structured Settlements After Brain Injury

Ask the Expert: What to Know About Trusts and Structured Settlements After Brain Injury

Make sure the funds you’ve saved for your child with TBI last his lifetime.

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Should I Tell My TBI Rehab Staff About My Previous Addiction?

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Sharing medical history with your doctors after TBI helps more than it hurts.

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How Attorneys Can Help People with Brain Injury Dispute "Pre-Existing Conditions"

What Are an Attorney's Obligations When a Client Has Had a Brain Injury?

“Aggravation of pre-existing conditions” can be difficult to substantiate.

Shana De Caro, Esq.

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Lost & Found: Dealing with Sensory Overload After Brain Injury

Lost & Found: Caps, Sunglasses, and Earplugs

It’s not your imagination: your sense of touch, taste, smell, hearing, or vision can be extra sensitive after a brain injury.

Lost & Found: What Brain Injury Survivors Want You to Know

Hear what people with brain injury are really thinking and want their friends, family, and others to know.

A Mother's Intuition

A Motherâ€™s Intuition

After her son sustained a TBI while playing football, one mother took the ball and ran with it to raise awareness.

Cuidando a un familiar después de una lesión cerebral traumática militar: La perspectiva de una esposa

Cuidando a un familiar despuÃ©s de una lesiÃ³n cerebral traumÃ¡tica militar: La perspectiva de una esposa

"Con amor y dignidad, yo hice lo mejor que pude paracuidar a mi marido después de que fue herido... pero tú no estás sin apoyo."

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Caring for a Loved One After a Military TBI: A Wife’s Perspective

Caring for a Loved One After a Military TBI: A Wife's Perspective

"With love and honor I did my best to take care of my husband after he was injured ... but you don't have to go it alone."

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Hypopituitarism After Brain Injury

Hypopituitarism After Brain Injury

Can a brain injury disrupt healthy endocrine function?

Jeffrey Bazarian, MD

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Family Concerns

Intimate Relationships

Physical Symptoms of Brain Injury

Assistive Technology

Assistive Technology

Assistive technology can help your loved one live more independently. It may also make your job as a caregiver easier and more enjoyable.

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Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent, and Cope with Stress

Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent, and Cope with Stress

Stress affects everyone, but it can be worse for people with a brain injury. Here are some indispensable, general strategies for managing stress.

Why Aggression, Irritability, and Depression Are Common After Brain Injury

Learn Why Aggression, Irritability, and Depression Are Common After Brain Injury

Changes in or damage to the brain make emotional and behavioral issues common after a TBI.

Fatigue After Brain Injury: Getting Tired of Being So Tired

Fatigue After Brain Injury: Getting Tired of Being So Tired

Depression, pain, sleep disturbance, and neuroendocrine abnormalities can all be reasons for extreme post-TBI fatigue.

Brian D. Greenwald, MD

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Sleeping Problems

Finding the Right Doctor for People with TBI

Finding the Right Doctor for People TBI

Caregivers need to educate themselves about their loved one's TBI and not be afraid to get a second opinion.

Caregiving for Someone with a TBI: A Unique Experience

Caregiving for Someone with a TBI: A Unique Experience

Carolyn Rocchio talks about learning to be a caregiver for her son with TBI.

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