Targeted Search

Transitioning from the military, where a service member may have had to make many life-and-death decisions, to the civilian world can be challenging.

Adaptive sports like kayaking are great therapy for the injured brain ... and injured spirit. Hear from a few veterans who found hope, friendship, and renewed confidence from being out on the water.

"TBI does not change the fact that we are human beings. We have feelings. We are not second class citizens. We are different, but different does not mean worse."

Dr. Paul Aravich suggests that veterans with TBI should not look at their loss of capacities but rather their different capacities.

The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said that humans are "condemned to freedom." What does that mean for people with TBI and their caregivers?

Learning to trust the world, to trust caregivers, can be equally if not more effective than drugs for people with executive function or behavioral problems post-TBI.

Dr. Jordan Grafman talks about the Vietnam Head Injury Study, started in 1981, that continues to look at the effects of brain injury on current and late-life function.

How does a once promising actress, now with no short-term memory, write and perform the most difficult and moving show of her life?

Although she hates to have to talk to her husband — who suffers from combat-related TBI and PTSD — like a child, sometimes that's the only way she can get him to understand her.