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Shock Waves

Life as he knew it ended with a shock wave through his brain. A sister shares her story.

Understanding PTSD Treatment

If you have PTSD you don’t have to suffer. This booklet describes therapies and medications that are proven to help people with PTSD.

Brain Injuries: Silent Epidemic

Learn how Ted Stachulski is helping thousands of fellow veterans with TBI.

Ahead of the Game

Learn more about the good and bad news about identifying and treating youth concussions.

Understanding Clinical Trials: Frequently Asked Questions

Understanding Clinic Trials: Frequently Asked Questions

Choosing to participate in a clinical trial may help you and many people after you. But it can be an overwhelming decision to make.

Unthinkable

A mother's tragedy, terror, and triumph through a child's traumatic brain injury.

Psychedelics

Helps you explore traumatic experiences without a feeling of immediate threat.

Read more about Psychedelics

Epidemiology of PTSD

The prevalence of PTSD across different populations based on recent studies that have assessed the prevalence of PTSD in nationally representative samples as well as in samples of Veterans.

Impaired Cognition: Frequently Asked Questions

Learn more about cognition and what happens when it is impaired after a brain injury.

Coping with Mild TBI: Finances

Learn how best to tackle financial problems that can arise after a TBI.

Traumatic Brain Injury Basics

Brain injury affects the roots of who we are — our ability to think, communicate, and connect with other people. Here's a good place to start learning.

Disentangling Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Stress Reactions

Are symptoms of mild TBI being mixed up with those of PTSD?

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.

Six Ways to Maximize Your Education Benefits

The 1944 GI Bill transformed not only the lives of veterans but the fabric of our nation. Today’s Post-9/11 GI Bill continues that legacy with some changes.

Should I Enter a Clinical Trial?

For people who are thinking about enrolling in a clinical trial — and their loved ones — learn the basics and more.

Figuring Out Social Security Benefits After a TBI

Detailed advice to help you navigate the maze.

Michael Kaplen, Esq.

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Finances

Helping Veterans Succeed in College

Helping someone with a brain injury navigate life on a college campus after being in the military can be a tall order. Army veteran Timm Lovitt is the man for the job.

Trisha Meili: Going the Distance

Trisha Meili — the Central Park Jogger — shares her personal best.

Celebrating Her Loving, Wild, Red-Headed Boy

"I’d burst through the ICU doors like one of Charlie’s Angels; I was there to do my job, to do anything to help Mark get better.”

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.

Becoming a Voice for Wounded Warriors

It took almost nine years for Marine Michael Grywalsky to get the help he needed for TBI and PTSD. Without the tenacity of his wife, he may never have gotten it.

Brain Injury and COVID-19: Tips for Successful Navigation

Graphic representation of the Earth styled to look like a coronavirus virion

The introduction of COVID-19 to the human population around December 2019 has resulted in a pandemic that continues to affect the entire world. While the research to date has focused on potential neurological impairment to COVID-19 patients, little attention has been placed on the effects of the fallout caused by COVID-19 on individuals who are living with brain injury. Specifically, the pandemic has resulted in job loss, social isolation, interruptions to routine, and a need to adjust previously successful compensatory strategies, all highlighting some of these unique challenges. The general population has experienced the same issues. However, individuals with brain injury were already experiencing these prior to the pandemic.