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TBI 101: Sleeping Problems

For people recovering from a traumatic brain injury, sleep is especially important, but people with brain injury often have trouble getting the quantity and quality of sleep they need.

Ross Zafonte, DO: Giving Back to Our Military Members Whose Dedication and Service Stuns

Staff at Home Base are awed—daily, hourly—by the resilience, determination, and dedication of the veterans and service members with whom they work during the two-week immersion program. Dr. Zafonte recalls one Special Forces member who was injured multiple times but whose focus, invariably and unblinkingly, was to restore himself so as to return to theater to continue to serve. Military members like this man exemplify a dedication to protect our country; something all of us should take time to better understand and appreciate.

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Why Is It So Difficult to Commit Information to Memory Following a Brain Injury?

Memory is not a single thing. It actually has a number of stages and any of which may be impacted by a brain injury.

David Arciniegas, MD

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Memory Problems

Staying Positive When the Road is Dark

Last month, I hit a low point and realized that it was time to seek professional help again. I sought out a local doctor familiar with using EMDR to treat my PTSD.

Changes in Taste, Smell, and Hormones After Brain Injury

How and why does a TBI change a person’s ability to taste and smell, and cold hands and feet, too?

Brian D. Greenwald, MD

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Intimate Relationships

Facts About Concussion and Brain Injury

Every brain injury is different. Know the facts and how to get help.

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.

Coping with Post-TBI Anxiety & Stress

Woman, seated on a bed, holding her head in her hands, stressed

Anxiety can come in many colors and textures following a brain injury. It can bubble up in crowded, noisy places. It can surface when there is too much quiet — when worries seem to snowball and there is no place to hide.

Head Injury and Dizziness

TBI Symptom Management: Dizziness After Brain Injury

Dizziness is one of the symptoms that you may experience after a concussion. It may make you feel unsteady and like things are moving when they are not.

Sleepless in Salem — Life After Brain Injury

Sleepless in Salem â€” Life After Brain Injury

Every now and again, someone will ask me how I’m sleeping these days. My reply has remained unchanged for several years. “I’ve not slept a full night since 2010.” — David Grant

Concussion: Frequently Asked Questions from Parents

It's scary for parents after their child has a concussion. Having answers helps with that fear.

From the Heart: Double Trauma and Delayed Grief

I found out the hard way that when faced with trauma of this magnitude, your body has many protective layers; and as the layers are slowly peeled back, you find out exactly what resiliency is.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Racial Trauma

PTSD and Racial Trauma, Racism linked to negative mental health conditions

Racial trauma can be defined as the cumulative traumatizing impact of racism on a racialized individual, which can include individual acts of racial discrimination combined with systemic racism, and typically includes historical, cultural, and community trauma as well.

Racism has been linked to a host of negative mental health conditions, but the connection between racial discrimination and PTSD symptoms appears to be the most robust.

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Couldn't Happen to Me: A Life Changed by Paralysis and Brain Injury

"This is not the path I chose. But I have to make the best of it."

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I Wanted My Brain Back

What happens when you’re a PhD economist and you suddenly can’t remember things or think straight?

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Reinventing the Family

Abby Maslin shares her thoughts on how her husband's brain injury is helping them become even better parents than they could have imagined.

PTSD diagnosis through bacteria in saliva

A gloved hand inserts a swab into a woman's open mouth

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Life Goes On

Gretchen Rubin, once wrote, “The days are long, but the years are short.” She was writing about parenting and not traumatic brain injury, but as I reflect on this poignant quote, I realize that as a caregiver, even those seemingly endless days have passed with such speed that I can hardly account for the last three years of my life.

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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Legal Issues

Living with and Having Mixed Feelings About a Survivor Who Is Very Different

Changes that normally follow brain injury are hard to comprehend and accept, especially for spouses and parents. This self-assessment can help you cope.

Holding A Family Meeting

Help your loved one with a brain injury by learning how to work cooperatively as a family.

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16 Things About Concussion Parents Need to Know

Know what to do if your child sustains a concussion on the football field, basketball court, skateboarding, or just goofing around.

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 Flashlight Out of the Dark

Army vet Timm Lovitt finds that reaching out to help other vets is his own best medicine.

Helping to Heal from PTSD by Reframing My Story and Removing the Mask of Masculinity

Young soldier holding a mask of a strong face while crying and holding his weapon

When you’re a man in society — not to mention a Navy SEAL in special operations — you are taught that the best (only) option is to be the strong, silent type. You can’t let your emotions control you. You can’t be sad, or too happy. Really, the only acceptable emotions for the masculine persona are stoicism and anger.

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