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Why Am I Having Seizures Seven Years Post-Brain Injury?

Five to 10 percent of people who have had a TBI later experience seizures. Learn what the risk factors are.

Brian D. Greenwald, MD

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Physical Symptoms of Brain Injury

Improving Tolerance for Exercise After a Brain Injury

Gradually and systematically increasing your activity levels may help you exercise with fewer TBI-related side effects.

Elliot Roth, MD

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Diagnosing & Treating Brain Injury

Fighting the "TBI Wars": New Alternatives for TBI Survivors

In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway wrote, “The world breaks us all, then after, some are strong at the broken places.”

Crash

Two teenagers. A dark road. A drunk driver. This excerpt is from a beautiful book about the journey from grief to gratitude to grace by a pediatrician-mother.

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Blast Injury Basics

Blast injuries are a complex form of injury — from the effects of pressure waves on the body's tissue to the psychological trauma that can come with physical injury.

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More Research and Attention Needed on Issues of Intimacy and Parenting Post-TBI

Althought incredibly important, issues of intimacy, sexuality, and even parenting after a brain injury are often overlooked in both research and practice.

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Keep Reaching Out for Help After a TBI

Soldiers with TBI and their families should not stop looking for help and guidance; recovery will not happen if people isolate themselves.

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TBI and PTSD Often Go Hand-in-Hand

Depending on the cause of a person's brain injury like an assault or a combat injury, post-traumatic stress can also play a key role in the injury — and treatment.

Helping Kids with TBI and PTSD

Children with TBI and PTSD often reveal how they are truly coping through play, nightmares, or when they regress in developmental milestones.

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Neuropsych Exam Versus Imaging for Brain Injuries

A full neuropsychological evaluation of a child with a mild brain injury can often tell more about the nature of the damage and its functional effects than imaging screens like CAT scans or MRIs.

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Advice for Families with a Loved One with Severe Brain Injury

Keeping a journal, taking videos, and looking back to mark progress can help families with a loved one with a severe TBI. But most importantly, families need to seek help.

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Marilyn Spivack: Be Patient but Hopeful After a Brain Injury

It is easy for people with TBI and their families to become discouraged or depressed at what seems like a very slow rate of recovery. But a bruised brain needs time to heal.

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Acute Rehab for Brain Injury Is the First Step in a Long Journey

Most stays in an acute rehab facitily are too short for people with brain injury. Familes need to make each day count and look ahead to next steps.

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Growing Up with Brain Injury

This is a glimpse into the life of a girl whose father sustained a brain injury. Her life continues to be defined by the moment of her father's car crash — for better and for worse.

What Is Your It?

"It" is the recipient of all of your best.What is your "it"?

Bring on the Steeple Chase!

"For the brain injured, for anyone needing to restart their lives after all of their normal has been stripped, the Olympics provide a serious, wonderful, hopeful dose of what is possible in each of us."

Study to Determine Lifetime Prevalence of Brain Injury Among Prisoners

A substantial proportion of prisoners reported having experienced a TBI during their lifetime, something that could impact their success once released.

The Ability to Drive Safely After a Severe Brain Injury Is Frequently Compromised

Driving takes a great deal of concentration and coordination. Rehab for this complex activity should be a main goal of certain reintegration programs.

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Long-Term Issues Post-Brain Injury Can Affect Return to Work

More than half of the people with TBI in this study were employed after three years. However, cognitive skills and psychiatric issues remained significant barriers to employment.

Protect Your Brain

The three most effective ways to prevent traumatic brain injury.

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Helping Children Cope with Head Injury in the Family

Children who have a close relative, particularly a parent, with a brain injury face many challenges. Learn how children can be affected and how to help them and the adults caring for them.

Penetrating Brain Injury Animation

An animation of a penetrating traumatic brain injury.

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Interactive Brain

Brain Basics: An Interactive 3D Model of the Injured Brain

Take an interactive journey to see how the brain works and what impact an injury can have

Do I Have a Brain Injury? And What Can I Do About It?

What is unidentified traumatic brain injury? Learn how it can happen and what can be done about it from people with brain injury and experts in the field.

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Writing for Two

For physician, writer, and mother Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, writing was the way she made sense of the world, but after her son sustained a brain injury, she found she was also writing for him.